Quote Originally Posted by tibilicus View Post
At the end of the day to all those who defend Israeli actions, why cant they just bomb the rocket launch positions instead of bombing the most densely populated piece of land on earth. You can see from the news that the militants are launching the rockets outside of the city areas and mainly on mud banks.

You haven't thought that maybe Israel are after something a bit more here than stopping the rocket attacks?
because those launch sites are not like US/Societ ICMB sites which is to say that they are not fixed concrete launch pads in the middle of 100,000 hectares of prarie-land. They are launched from anywhere and everywhere which frequently includes densely populated civilian areas precisely because they want the protection and the propoganda from israeli retaliation.

yes, they are attempting to break the back of the organised insurgency, how succesfully is the matter in dispute.