[SmithL]

Have the rocket attacks stopped? If not, they haven’t used enough force.

[MathDoc]

I'd call it disproportionate:

A rocket apparently fired by Palestinians on Friday killed the two Palestinians aged five and 13, Palestinian medics said. None of Gaza's militant factions claimed responsibility for the deadly attack on the house in Beit Lahiya. Gaza Health Ministry official Dr. Moiaya Hassanain identified the two victims as 5-year-old Hanin Abu Khoussa and her 12-year-old cousin, Sabah Abu Khoussa. Three other young people were wounded, Hassanain said.

Israeli construction worker injured by random rocket attack

TEL AVIV, December 27 (RIA Novosti) - Rocket fire from Palestinian militants on Saturday killed one person and injured five in southern Israel, Israeli emergency services said.

"In the town of Netivot, a rocket hit a residential building. We have one dead, one critically wounded and another four or five people slightly injured," an emergency service spokesman said.

Prior to 2006, the number of Palestinian rocket attacks rarely reached 50 per month. By early 2008, Hamas displayed a capability of launching nearly 50 per day.

I'd say that Israel's response is disproportionately mild. I'm hoping they'll respond proportionately ... in the manner and to the degree that any responsible government other than Israel would be expected to respond to several years of random attacks against civilians ... before this is over.

[Logic n' Reason]

When dealing with terrorists, radical islamos, and those who would do anything to kill you, your family, and your nation, there is no such thing as "disproportionate force".

It is too bad American hasn't learned that important fact. Leave it up to our politicians to fail again and again to learn this??

[dbacks]

War is NOT a matter of, “If you kill one of mine, I can kill one of yours.”

War is, “If you kill one of mine, I will kill ALL of yours!”

[poindexter]

If a bank is being robbed by one gunman, you don’t sent in one cop to deal with the situation!

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

"They pull a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue. *That's* the "Chicago" way!"

[Lloyd227]

Irrelevant question. Once force is justified, there is no such thing as "disproportionate" The correct question might be whether force was (or is) justified. Once you answer that, the only thing that remains is "...to crush your enemy, to drive him before you and to hear the lamentation of his women"

Talk of such things as "disproportionate" is self defeating. Save that for the hippies

[wagglebee]

Is Israel Using ‘Disproportionate Force’

That's how you WIN, you use everything you've got to destroy the enemy.

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

I don’t believe in disproportionate force. No such thing.

[retry]

The three rules of warfare

1. Never humanize your enemy

2. Kill your enemy until he stops killing you

3. There are no rules in war.

[getarope]

Israel did not start the fight, but it will damn well stop the fight the only way possible. No mercy.

[zeugma]

“Proportionate” responses in warfare are immoral. They increase misery of everyone by lengthening the war.

[drumr337]

the argument of excessive force went out the window when the big complaint from the left in Iraq was we didn't use enough force , they argued America should have used overwhelming force to protect our troops,oh how quickly they forget

[BuffaloJack]

> Is Israel Using ‘Disproportionate Force’?
Apparently not.
We’ll know how much is appropriate when the Hamas rockets and artillery stop.

[Karliner]

Disproportionate force... heh, I like fishing with depth charges, easier and I LOVE the big 'asplosions."

Israel should hit Damascus next then when the world is whining, go for the Persian nukes, let God do the rest vs Magog,Togarmah, Ethiopia, Libya, Gomer( Ez 38,39). Doom on all of them