Killing kids to win the hearts and minds of who? ..Those sick bastards!
Of who?
The left in this country, the rest of the world, the French.
Anything to isolate Israel, to condemn them and to keep them from truly defeating those huzzyballer dudes.
The world, the incident moved many in the world to voice nonsupport of Israel. The war of propaganda is not only being fought in media across the globe, but in the blood of innocent children being used as props. Make no mistake about it. These are not scenes being staged in Hollywood, but real death scenes being staged with real innocents. We, the world, are losing the propaganda war. The price of that war is being paid for in blood & death.
It is critical that in the mind of the jihadi these children were martyrs for allah. In fact, based on their culture of teaching children to 'love allah unto death' these children probably knew their fate. Note they didn't pull any armed guards out of the rubble, there were no men in the collapse of the building. A few women and many, many children by comparison. They may have gone to their allah willingly.
Killing kids to turn the hearts and minds against their enemy. They cannot win on the battlefield, their only hope is to force Israel into a cease-fire by international pressure. Otherwise all of Hezbullah dies or runs away.
This is what I coined *5th generation warfare. Kill their OWN people, scapegoating the enemy, to win the hearts and minds of third parties. (MSM..UN..France)