Human Rights Watch, Hezbollah chapter

To press the enemy until they give up or are eliminated is a practical tactic, but when the enemy includes civilians, it starts to look less like defense and more like genocide. To the extent that HB rockets kill Israelis, this demands some defensive reaction. But let's ask ourselves who really has the upper hand in this situation: a country with a modern military and support of the world's most powerful nation, or a group of terrorists? This should also answer the question of who has the power to resolve the situation permanently and lay the conditions for building a civil society or societies.

A lesson from China's history is that when people have no means to live, then they will rebel against the government... they have nothing to lose. Give someone a home and they will live there for generations and on their own economy. What do Gazan's have to live for? The answer to that question is an important step toward a stable Judea.