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Hamas hopes that inevitable collateral damage -- or, if it is really fortunate, an errant Israeli bomb -- will kill large numbers of its own people for which, of course, the world will blame Israel.

This ploy wouldn't work if the MSM did its homework. But, they would rather report the staged pictures that Hamas churns out in hopes of winning a media campaign victory. It would be like asking the US to ignore daily bombardment of San Diego by Mexico. I hope Israel tells the world community to grab their ankles while they neuter the mad dog that is Hamas.

Precision strikes with small payload munitions that do not cause great collateral damage means you are fighting the war on your enemies terms and rules. This is stupidity and military suicide.

I would suggest precision strikes on launch points in Gaza but with 500 lbs bombs. These are simply the old 500 pound iron bombs with a GPS guidance system added to it. Let it be publicly know to all in Gaza to stay the hell away at least 500 meters from any launch point.

Sherman burned Atlanta and left a path of destruction through the South, he was not an evil man. He did not do this to punish The South. He did it to break the will of the South to resist, IT WORKED.

This ploy wouldn't work if the MSM did its homework. But, they would rather report the staged pictures that Hamas churns out in hopes of winning a media campaign victory.

It just shows how close the World has become to being run by the media industry.
Nearly all the political furore in the West is driven by media reporting. You know, the latest 'corrupt politician', exposed by the 'undercover' reporter from 'the daily whatever' newspaper, or the 'dodgy dealings' by the 'big business executive' are all sourced from the media moguls. They never seem to get 'stories' sourced from official bodies.

The disturbing thing is the relation to official political opinion based on what's in todays 'newspapers', I often wonder if there is ANY intelligence supporting Governments opinions in the West, they all seem to speak and act in reaction to what's in the public media.
The problem with this is, as all FReepers know, once these media entities have a political bond, then news becomes irrelevant due to bias.
Obama's campaign was the shining example of the media groups deciding who was going to have the most powerful job on the planet, then feeding the required information to the public to make it happen.

This current conflict, as with all other conflicts in recent times, are being fuelled by media opinion, based on what will grips their clients' attention, which is further decided by the underlying political bias of said media company.
Whether it's factual, impartial, correct, relevant or destructive is completely irrelevant to them, they just want the people to view their media.

Media moguls used to be the recorders of history, but are increasingly becoming the creators of it.