Hiya Cheesy, been a while! Actually NO, I am not actually defending it, sadly the Terrorists started it and the Israelis finished it. Perhaps had they just taken military hostages and maybe not raped, tortured and slaughtered so many innocent people, the Israelis might not have gone to the lengths they did. Killing is one thing, raping and torture in particular, is another. If someone had tortured and murdered ANYONE in my mob, I would in fact hunt them down, no matter how long it took. By torturing and slaughtering those Israelis chicks on the back of those utes, they invoked a rage and sadly its what they asked for!
Agreed they certainly have, however the cutting out of unborn babies and torture of children, would to me, invoke the same response, not that they were targeting the innocent, but the Israeli Government duty must be to protect their own citizens. Had the Terrorists not taken all those hostages, then the Israelis would not have had to do what they did. Its kinda like those who attack the US Government for nuking Japan. The Japanese started it and the Manhattan Project finished it.