Although Israel carefully focuses on Hamas military and terrorist infrastructure in Gaza to minimize civilian collateral damage and death, this is often impossible as Hamas has deliberately placed weapons factories and training centers in and around such civilian areas as homes, schools and hospitals.  Nevertheless, as even Hamas has admitted, most of the dead are terrorists.  But not all have died by Israel's bombing.  In a practice Reuters blandly describes as "settling old scores," Gazans are shooting and killing others in cold blood under the pretext that the victims collaborated with Israel.  Some undoubtedly did; other shooters are using the occasion for personal revenge, to settle old scores such as saving family honor.  And no place is safe, not even the sanctuary of a hospital.  Alas, the NY Times has removed an incident that they earlier described: Hamas terrorists killing "collaborators" in gazan...(Read Full Post)