Hamas has a trick that never fails

Sooner or later the American people are going to demand that we adjust our relationship with Israel. In the current conflict Hamas is committing war crimes, and Israel is committing war crimes. Both are targeting civilians. Israel claims not to be targeting civilians, but for every adult Israeli civilian that Hamas manages to murder, Israel kills ten small Palestinian children. Tit for tat, sort of.

Israel makes it clear that it has been tricked into killing children, that Hamas shields its missile launchers with Arab children. Then when Israel bombs the missile launchers, the children get killed by accident, and Israel gets bad publicity. So successful is this wily Hamas trick that the Israeli military have been fooled by it hundreds of times in a row. 

There's no way to stop this. Let's face it, when the Israeli military see a missile site surrounded by little Arab children, they are on it like white on a Republican. It's a twofer. In fact, Arab children playing on a beach are a dead giveaway that there might possibly be missiles of some kind somewhere nearby. That's a given, right? Once the children and soccer ball are spotted, the artillery can't resist. (We need to be fair.)