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Israeli response has always been part of the problem. It just exacerbates the hatred, and I do not think that there is a military solution to terroists attacks.
In this case it appears that an Israeli tank commander executed an adult and three children for a curfew violation. Maybe by accident, maybe not. Either way they are just as dead and Israel has just created more hatred and more enemies.
During the Second World War, German troops occupied many countries, and most, if not all of those countries, developed under ground forces.
The under ground forces, would snipe Germans, blow troop trains, attack truck convoys, etc. Some German Commanders used the ten for one policy. For every German soldier killed in an attack they would go to the nearest village and would, at random, select ten locals for each German killed (ususally men, sometimes, women and children) and summarily execute them.
This tactic did not get the desired results. It simply increased the number of volunteers for the under ground.
While I understand the feelings of the Israelis that have lost children to suicide bombers, their tactics, just as in the case of the Germans, will not get the desired result.
If it were anyone's children, that is reading this post, that had just been killed for a violation of curfew; I ask you what would be your reaction to the killers of your children?
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