Amos Harel and Avi Issacharoff, Haaretz Correspondents: ANALYSIS: Hamas wants lull in Gaza, but only on its own terms
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Title:re #7 `Notice...`
Name:Colin Wright
City: RichmondState: California
`...Harel is attempting to justify collective punishment i.e. the idea that if Israel inflicts enough pain on the Pals who ***aren`t*** firing those rockets then the Pals who ***are*** firing the rockets will be forced to stop.

That Is Collective Punishment, And That Is A War Crime...`

One can be more specific than that. It is, in miniature, exactly the same justification the Nazis tended to offer for the Holocaust.