“In an unprovoked attack.” Indeed! How much more provoking do you want the Palestinians to put up with? Yes, Hamas is guilty of killing innocent people. You are willing to see that. But you so easily leave out how the Palestinians have been squeezed by Israel into smaller and smaller pieces of land (vis its military), stopped and searched everywhere they go, driven away (military) from their temple while they were worshiping, recognize, as the rest of the world does, that the Palestinians for at least the past 17 plus years have live in “An Open Air Prison”, with their water, electricity limited to them by Israel…and the list is endless………. And the U.S., my country. I keep asking myself what does my GOVERNMENT owe to Israel, especially that my GOVERNMENT would so involved into the protection of a land that was created, not for a race of people, but for a RELIGION, which its Constitution expressly forbids. So, cry the Jordan full of your tears. Here, here’s a hanky….