A: If I occupied a people, placed a crippling trade and economic embargo on them, placed them

under siege, humiliated them daily via military and police checkpoints, controlled their water and
electricity, constructed apartheid"Jewish-only roads", shot their children, bombed their schools,
mosques and businsses, illegally seized their lands, destroyed their crops, demolished their
homes, threw thousands of them in dungeons and treated them like sub-humans and they fired
rockets at me - I would probably stop doing all of the above. Secondly, Israel has been mass
murdering the Palestinians for over 60 years - long before any rockets were fired and long before
Hamas was even in existence. So this is nothing but a fallacy designed to deflect the reality of
the situation and mislead others. Finally, Israel's indiscriminate use of heavy weaponry in
civilian areas is a war crime, not self defense.