I know we are coming from the same place in our hearts, Mick. The problem isn't us, it is that the players in the Middle East don't feel like we do. 

I think if the goal is to make Israel stop, and Israel's goal is to never stop...there is the issue. Basically, Hamas provoked Israel with the intention of making Israel overreact in their response. This may have all happened with Bibi's cooperation. You kill a few of ours, we'll kill a lot of yours. I believe Hamas did not take hostages to upset Israel, they took them to upset the US. Bibi and his people have a hostage policy, if hostages are taken, they are immediately considered casualties. There is no negotiation, negotiation in the region is seen as weakness. 

The US gets involved and slows things down, insists on negotiating for hostages, insists on aid, on planning to save civilians, on having an endgame that is fair. It draws things out, it slows the progress and draws in more media. Bibi sees all of that as a hassle. He is looking to go in, start killing as many people as he can, as quickly as he can, and being as ruthless as he can. Everybody is punished, everybody is the enemy, no Palestinian will be spared because none are considered innocents...not even the babies. 

So, you have two sides fighting each other that agree on basically one thing, the more dead, the more suffering, the better. They literally think we sound like idiots because we are sitting in our homes asking "What about the children?" 

Their intent is to use our concern for the children against us. To work us up, to make us fight among ourselves about the kids they intended to kill. Hamas attacked and intentionally killed kids, Israel responds and they intend, know, they are going to kill kids. They say "Well, that's the cost of war."

It's all criminal, it's all butchery. It's to be used against the West. Nothing is better than dead kids to manipulate people. 

I think David once commented on, someone, saying "Nothing is funnier than carpet bombing."