Quote Originally Posted by Goofball
But if your mother was allowing you to use her house as a staging area for your murders, then her house is fair game.

That kind of logic is just an excuse for genocide. "Because this two year-old child is Israeli, I am justified in murdering her, because she will be a soldier in 16 years."

At any rate, what you just said proves my point. Palestinians are firing rockets indiscriminately at Israelis, because in their eyes, the only good Jew is a dead Jew.
Have you heard of the programmes of shelling any areas that have ever had rockets fired from them, or are considered suitable for such? Notwithstanding the fact that the rockets the Palestinians use are eminently movable, and everyone knows the culprits have long since gone by the time the shelling starts, the IDF carries out a programme of lobbing in shells every hour or so. Bad luck for the residents in the area. A valid tactic, to terrorise the enemy population into not supporting the militants. But let's not pretend it's anything other than terrorism.

Quote Originally Posted by Goofball
Infrastructure that helps support an enemy's war effort against you is a legitimate target.
The same complaint that was made about the Lebanese tussle - proportionality of response. If the enemy is threatening your state, severe measures should be taken, up to and including destroying enemy infrastructure supporting their war effort. If the enemy is only up to capturing (not kidnapping, the two sides are at war) the odd soldier and firing off the odd badly designed rocket, bombing something that is overwhelmingly civilian in purpose seems OTT. Use such drastically oversized measures, and it doesn't matter if you win or lose, you lose either way.