From the Times: Israeli jets kill ‘more than 200’ in revenge strikes on Gaza

Israel yesterday launched its largest raid on Gaza with two waves of air attacks that killed at least 205 people and injured more than 700, according to Palestinian doctors.
Children on their way home from school and policemen parading for a graduation ceremony were the principal victims of a bloody few hours that left the territory in flames…
One Gaza City man brought the body of his seven-year-old son to hospital but, finding no place in the morgue, took him home in a cardboard box. He said the boy would be buried in the back yard.
Shifa hospital, the main medical centre in Gaza, was overwhelmed. Bodies lined the corridors, relatives screamed in the emergency room, cars and trucks pulled up into the courtyard with their doors open, the wounded piled inside because there were not enough ambulances. Huge pillars of black smoke rose over the city.
—There are heads without bodies . . . There’s blood in the corridors. People are weeping, women are crying, doctors are shouting,— said Ahmed Abdel Salaam, a nurse…
So much for the “civilized and democratic nation in the heart of the Middle East” supported by my tax dollars; the munitions and aid I have paid for have killed innocents.
Of course the response to terrorism should be more terrorism, it only makes sense, right? It is time to break down the differentiation between civilized nations and terrorism, to show that those differences are just labels. It has been proven in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Israel over and over.