Israel, it's about time!

[Nemo]

What I understand you're saying is that if Israel would fire artillery fire on the Gaza strip, without aiming, from a city it will be OK. Hamas can't target it because it's a civilian target and civilian might be killed and they obviously won't survive a ground assault. Israel will be responsible for this kind of attack for sure, but no one in the world will say Hamas should do something about it - it is a civilian target after all.

I disagree with this completely. If you are being attacked you have a right for self defence.

What I'm saying is that the target in that case would be filled with civilians. If you have the ability to lessen civilian losses by going in manually, you should do so, instead of bombing them and killing/injuring thousands. As I understand it, Israel has launched a ground attack on Saturday. There was no need to kill so many people with bombs when you could go in and neutralise the artillery sites. And while you're at it, you could engage Hamas face to face, just like you wanted, albeit with tanks on your side which would tarnish the glory slightly.

They've been launching an offensive on Israeli soil for eight years now. If you think launching rockets is not offensive you shouldn't condone Israeli air strikes.

I should have used the word "ground attack". Sorry.

Don't hold back your suggestions on how to stop Hamas's threat without any losses (on either side).

If I knew a way to get zero losses on both sides, I would take it.

There cannot be 0 losses. But there doesn't have to be thousands either.

As far as I know, none of the civilians killed on the Israeli side were inside the Gaza strip

I thought we decided to disagree on the boundaries. Anyway, I'll say again, I do not condone killing civilians, on either side.

Snuggleysoft:

If Cuba began sending rockets to America, then damn skippy I'd want us to bomb Cuban military sites.

Send in the army, neutralise the rocket sites. If it's clean cut military site, feel free to bomb the place. If you feel there is a rocket stash under a school where a bunch of kids study, send the army, move the kids, and look for the ammo dump. Don't drop a bomb on them for Christ's sake. Be the good guys you say you are.