I see very few people on this board think like this. A militarily weaker side goes and kills over a thousand civilians of a militarily much stronger nation backed by almost the entire world and find the consequences are unappealing. Do most of posters on this thread think Israelis will just pack their bags and go somewhere else? Go drown in the sea? Utter irrationality to think they will be cowed down by a terrorist attack. I still don't understand what Al Queda / Bin Laden expected will happen after killing 3,000 people. I have no background in urban warfare. But even I would have predicted, because Hamas is waging a war using underground tunnel system, Israeli military will remove all the superstructures till ground visibility is restored. That is military 101 to prevent future attacks. That would mean hundreds of thousands of people losing shelter and hundred thousand casualties including women and children.