Intolerable attacks must be answered  Editor: Regarding your
Nov. 19 front page photo of a Gazan holding his dead child:
Tragic as this is, Hamas is utterly indifferent to the welfare
of its own people.  It is a terrorist organization that's
committing a double war crime in attacking Israel. It not only
uses Palestinian civilians as well as homes, mosques, schools,
ambulances and hospitals as shields against attack, but it
intentionally fires missiles from these locations into Israeli
population centers hoping to kill many civilians.  For them,
it's a win-win situation. They know that if Israel refrains from
retaliating for fear of striking civilians, its terrorists will
live to fire more missiles into Israeli cities and towns.
Alternatively, if Israel does retaliate, it risks incurring
civilian casualties as collateral damage, thereby providing
Hamas and the Western media with anti-Israel propaganda.
Foreign media repeatedly have called Israel's counter-terrorist
operation "deadly" and "relentless," occasi