Israel should not intentionally target the killing/maiming/murdering/raping/torturing of Palestinian civilians. Anti-Israel combatants should not do the same toward Israeli's. That isn't difficult to say.
The issue is Israel gains nothing from doing such murderous acts. They already have the power and legitimacy of a state. Palestinian extremists can do exactly what they're doing (savagery), hope for Israel to respond and these savages gain political currency if their own people are killed. They
want Palestinian civilian deaths, it serves their cause. If that's the position they take, and they hide among the civi's, Palestinians have to excise their own tumors while Israel defends itself. Unfortunately they won't because the average Palestinian is anti-Israel. Israel cannot win in the court of public opinion, but they can stamp out Palestinian murderers with swift response and let them bury their own bodies.
I wonder what you'd say if I told you I thought Timothy McVeigh did what he had to do because of the AWB of 94 and Waco/Ruby Ridge. Had to do something to stop the federal government from continued constitutional erosion, right?
This whole issue is very strange. This is
not how reasonably minded people viewed the IRA and the situation is remarkably similar.