Subhuman Hamas Terrorists Target Children, Attacking a Yellow School Bus with a High-tech Missile

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This was a war crime by any definition: Hamas deliberately and in cold blood targeted an Israeli school bus for a rocket attack.

This bears repeating so the words ring loudly against the silence of the hypocrites of the United Nations Human Rights Council: Hamas fired a laser-aimed anti-tank missile at a yellow school bus with the intent of killing children.

Hamas blew up the bus in retaliation for Israel's killing of three of the terror group's commanders, men responsible for the rain of missiles coming out of Gaza into southern Israel.

Declared Hamas: "This is an initial response to the occupation's crime, the latest of which was the assassination of the three holy fighters."

Thus, Hamas has openly stated its philosophy: You kill my soldier; I kill your child.

In this case, Hamas managed to critically wound a 16-year-old boy, the only passenger on the bus. The driver had just dropped off 30 other students.

The bus attack was part of a fusillade of terror. In the hours after the strike, terrorists indiscriminately fired 45 rockets and mortars at civilian areas in the south of Israel.

They aim to kill anyone, while Israel aims to kill killers. Yes, there are sometimes civilian casualties. When that tragedy happens, it's one that had been invited by Hamas, which as a strategy puts weapons storage and launching facilities in dense urban areas.

Israel endlessly apologizes and holds its forces accountable for inexcusable errors. For it never deliberately targets nonmilitants. Even Richard Goldstone has retracted the libelous accusation he made to the contrary in his destructive Human Rights Council report on Israel's offensive into Gaza in 2008 and 2009.

In his retraction, Goldstone pronounced that the council's "history of bias against Israel cannot be doubted," and he called on the body to denounce Hamas for its rocket barrages. Fat chance. Attack a school bus? Who cares?

Israel has responded militarily to the attempted murder, as it must. Watch for cries that its use of force is criminal. Watch for hand-wringing and lamentations about the "cycle of violence," as if everyone is to blame. And watch as some shirk from applying the term "terrorist" to Hamas, insisting on using an antiseptic term like "militants."

These men, these murderers, are proud of what they do. "Terrorist" isn't strong enough for them. How about "savages"?

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