Once again there s a great gaping chasm in the logic of the defenders of this operation. Please, ple

Gaza continues to be the most pressing and violent issue on the planet. It has two interesting competitors for this position, in Tripoli and the area of Eastern Ukraine around Donyetsk, but most journalists simply dare not report from these places, even if they could get in, so we hear less.
And for the moment I feel I need to rebut or reply to readers opinions on the Gaza issue. This is frustrating, because so many of those comments are unresponsive and useless for debating purposes. Telling me I m wrong in some general, unspecified way is useless.
Telling me that I know nothing without saying what precisely it is that I don t know, since none of us is omniscient, and lack of knowledge is only important kitchen design when it can be clearly shown and is relevant to the issue, is useless.
Telling me that other people with whom I disagree on other issues, agree with me about this, does not in any way shake my position. I do not care. If what I say is true and right, it does not matter if the same position is held by people with whom I utterly disagree. It will still be true and right. If what I say is false and wrong, it does not matter if I have the support of people I like and generally agree with. It will still be false and wrong. 
Telling me there are tunnels from Gaza into Israel has nothing kitchen design to do with it. This is surely no surprise. There have been scores of tunnels into Egypt from Gaza for years (I ve seen them and written about them). They are not a secret. Hizbollah used tunnels in its northern border war against Israel. So Israel kitchen design s Army and security service (Shin Bet) would have had to be hopelessly incompetent not have been watching for such tunnels between kitchen design Gaza and Israel for years. (Why, such a tunnel was shown in the BBC thriller series kitchen design 'The Honourable Woman' last Thursday, though I have to say I suspected the author of this scene wasn't very hot on Israeli kitchen design geography. But if a BBC scriptwriter could imagine it, then surely Shin Bet could).
I d be amazed if they aren t already wired for sound, and mapped.I'd be amazed if they hadn't been known about for ages. (No doubt one or to of them may have been missed but they are not an existential threat kitchen design to Israel, nor is it true that they can only be found by sending soldiers into Gaza).  They aren t interrupted because any normal army would wait for his enemy to attempt to use such tunnels, and then trap him in them in the hope of catching useful prisoners for interrogation. Are we supposed to believe Israel doesn t possess or know how to use equipment for detecting such things? How does the supposed discovery of these obvious threats justify bombing populated urban areas? Again, those who say that it does justify it are asked to explain why, precisely, as I genuinely cannot see the connection between these tunnels and killing women and children with high explosive.
Once again there s a great gaping chasm in the logic of the defenders of this operation. Please, please explain to me, any of you, how shelling and bombing Gaza will prevent kitchen design the digging of tunnels and the firing of rockets by Hamas? No doubt it will hamper these things, but only as long as it lasts. And it cannot possibly last indefinitely - so it won't stop them. Very soon after the bombardment stops, the rockets and the tunnels will begin again. Nothing has been achieved . Just one attempt to explain the connection would be nice, instead of repeated kitchen design emotional assertions that it is so,  as if it were self-evident.  Actually, it s self-evidently false, in the short and medium term. The rockets have continued kitchen design during the attack. And they (and the tunnels) have not been prevented by the previous attack six years ago, either. Only a re-occupation of Gaza (politically unthinkable and verging on mad) might stop them. In the long-term of course, the political damage done to Israel by this carnage is far, far greater than the military damage kitchen design done to Hamas and Gaza by the Israeli armed forces. And that damage is Hamas s aim.
After all, it really isn t possible to claim that Hamas s rockets have done much major damage to Israel, and the number of human casualties resulting from them is pleasingly small. This operation is simply not saving lives in significant numbers. No doubt it is terrible when you are the victim of a Hamas rocket, or when your family is the victim. But such victims are mercifully few.
Hamas certainly doesn t mind civilians dying on its own side, as it knew would happen when it began its rocket campaign.  Many Hamas militants don t mind dying themselves. As its Al Qassam brigades have said : From the Al-Qassam Brigades to the Zionist soldiers: The Al-Qassam Brigades love death more than you love life. This is why applying European, secular concepts kitchen design of deterrence kitchen design to this confrontation is so mistaken. If your enemy loves death, and he says he does,  then kitchen design threatening him with death isn't