Israel
Vincent Boland: Waging war on citizens of Gaza will make Israel less, not more, secure
In its response to last weekend’s terrorist attack, the Israeli government must target Hamas rather than a civilian population of millions
The attacks by Hamas last weekend that killed at least 1,200 Israelis, most of them civilians, caused the most grievous loss of Jewish lives in a single incident since the Holocaust. That is the monstrous reality of the terrorist assault into Israel from Gaza, and it cannot be denied or gainsaid, or excluded from any assessment of what happens next.
For the avoidance of all doubt: no, Israel did not have this tragedy coming. Successive ...
