Right-o, Chris. Happy to volunteer other people's sons and daughters to put their life at risk. Bad helicopters, bad, bad.
It's Mossad's job, dammit. It's what they're good at. The object of the exercise is to fix, find, and kill the jihadi bossman, not some poor kid.
If a helicopter strike MISSES ITS FREAKING TARGET and ends up killing a couple of civilians instead, it's not much damn good, is it? We're not plinking T-72's in the Karbala Gap, for God's sake! This is a built up urban area. Gaza is one of the most concentrated cesspools of humanity in the Arab world.
Mossad knows where these people are. They are the ones who should be sent in to make them disappear. Now, with the civilian casualties, the Israelis are going to have to be doubly cautious. This makes the political situation even harder to handle, and encourages the Hamas to try, try again.
Only a series of assassinations, made to look like Palestinian infighting, can bring this under control and slowly, but surely, deprive Arafat of his chesspieces. Give the jihadist bastards a taste of their own medicine.
Until people get serious and decide that Arafat must be retired, permanently, this thing will continue to occur. Only when the Pallies fight each other for power can Israel withdraw safely and play kingmaker.
Be Seeing You,
Chris