When the Allies bombed German cities in WWII, they did not exhibit overly concern about civilian casualties. Everything was bombed: trains full of refugees, hospitals, churches, everything. Dresden and Berlin were pulverized, and 80% of Munich and Breslau lay in ashes, with many tens of thousands of civilians dying in the ruins. Were those civilian casualties less human than those in Gaza?

The question must be asked: who provoked the war? What was the root cause of all those civilian casualties? Let’s look at the present war in Gaza.

The proximate trigger for the present hostilities was the deliberate and consistent attack on Israeli citizens by Hamas. Over 6,000 rockets and mortar shells have been launched at Israel since its Gaza withdrawal in the summer of 2005, including hundreds while the supposed truce between Hamas and Israel was in effect.

When Hamas then unilaterally declared the truce over and tripled its rocket-fire, Israel was obliged to act in self-defense.

YET EVEN this proximate trigger does not tell the whole story. It is rather a symptom, or proxy, for the root cause: the unwillingness of Hamas - and its Iranian patron - to accept the legitimacy of Israel within any boundaries in the Middle East.

Rather, this is the public call by Hamas, in its charter as well as its contemporary declarations, for the destruction of Israel and the killing of Jews wherever they may be³.

All Jews - not just in Israel - are considered inherently evil; the "sons of apes and pigs;" defilers of Islam; and responsible for all the evils of the world. This genocidal anti-Semitism, this culture of hatred, is where it starts⁴.

And while threatening the safety and security of Israeli citizens, Hamas cowardly shields itself behind its own Palestinian citizens, thereby threatening the safety and security of Gaza itself. 

There is no Humanitarian Crisis in Gaza; Arab-Israeli Conflict: Basic Facts

A quote: ‘Irrespective of what Israel does, or attempts to achieve, it is found guilty a priori:  Israel is the "occupier,"- "aggressor,"- "Nazi war machine,"- "guilty party."-  It has put Gaza under siege and has started a disproportionate response.  It is targeting innocent women and children in schools. It is hitting mosques, where the Believers come to pray.  It is causing a humanitarian crisis among a million refugees.  Israel is the source of all evil and the Jews must thus be eliminated, Israel obliterated off the map of the earth.’

Defiant Hamas leaders threatened revenge, including suicide attacks. Hamas "will continue the resistance until the last drop of blood," vowed spokesman Fawzi Barhoum. Imagine that! Palestinians who have been murdering Jews non-stop for years, once Israel finally defends herself, vow revenge for Israel’s self-defense. Talk about Madness! 

It is sad in Israel. Israel mourns the fallen soldiers: pictures of smiling young men who gave their lives willingly in defense of the country. Young men in the prime of life, gone, by fighting one of the most merciless enemies humanity has ever known.  "Swifter than eagles, Stronger than Lions"- (Samuel II, 1:23) they accepted the task of protecting their country, their family and friends, you and me. Why cannot the world understand Israel's fight is its own fight?

Let there be no mistakes, Operation Cast Lead is a defensive operation. End quote

“Thus says the Lord G-D: Because the Palestinians⁵ act revengefully⁶ and take vengeance with malice of heart to destroy in never-ending enmity; therefore thus says the Lord G-D, Behold, I will stretch out My hand against the Palestinians, and I will cut off the Cherethites, and destroy the rest of the [Gaza] seacoast. I will execute great vengeance upon them with wrathful chastisements. Then they will know that I am the L-RD, when I lay My vengeance upon them.”⁷

This is just one of many such declarations by the Holy One of Israel concerning this people. In Jeremiah 47:4-5 G-d speaks of the day that is coming to destroy all the Palestinians, and to cut off from Tyre and Sidon every helper (Hizbullah?) that remains. For the L-RD is destroying the Palestinians, the remnant of the coastland of Caphtor⁸ who are -- a remnant of the Anakim.