While London was bombed in WWII did anyone ever question if Britain could remove the threat which included massive loss of civilian German lives as the Allies won the war. In fact it was this very fact that the Allies leveled Cologne and Dresden that finally broke the German resistance and led to a free world. Israel need to explain clearly to the Western World what is at stake by not removing Hamas.

If France had a terrorist group who fired 60 to 80 rockets per day for months into London for months, we in Great Britain would expect the removal of this entire threat no matter what – if the terrorists launched these attacks from school yards and civilian homes everyone in their right minds would expect collateral damage. Similarly Israel needs to remove the terrorists responsible for these attacks and their resources in all our interests, swiftly and with confidence. Hamas are conducting this warfare on Israel ( a sovereign nation democratic Western Nation) using the civilian population of Gaza as part of their warfare strategy. My suggestion is that Israel is morally justified in asking the Red Cross to send ships to Gaza and request all civilians evacuate across Gaza. Remove them for everyone’s sake including their own, for as long as it take to remove all Hamas capability there are going to be civilians killed, everyone knows this and would have to support a mass evacuation. This is the only humane way forward for all. Then let the Israelis deal with the terrorists without any possible civilian causalities. At the moment Hamas is using the civilian population to conduct their war against Israel. Once Gaza is demilitarized the population may return, and the UN should keep the area demilitarized into the future.