Excellent article. 
Why is so hard for people to understand that when an armed force (and the Gazans ARE armed) comes to attack another armed force  and tries to invade their territory, that they get shot!
Only a few weeks ago in Syria, an armed force tried to attack US forces over another de facto border (the Euphrates river) and the US smashed them killing 200-300 of them. No one made much of a fuss.
Its no different at the border with Gaza except that Israel tries to minimise enemy casualties.

If assemble a force and enter a conflict zone to attack a stronger military power you should be very lucky that they don't kill the lot of you. 
Israel only killed 60 out of 40,000. Israel would be perfectly within its rights to kill all 40,000 enemy combatants in the conflict zone.

@openparadigm you are brave.. especially to say this on steemit. And if you see the clear double standard from MSM and the pods defending the barbarians then you know it's something else.. it's that classic hatred of a certain people.

You're right, their leaders say what they want all the time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHNo-7vnDx4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJFV44IOikY&t=0s

These videos about the post from Hamas are from the Foreign Affairs Minister the last 2 days.

I think you'll find my stance on this issue is neither pro-Gaza or pro-Israel.   I gave a reply to an article by @deliberator here kind of stating where I am at on it.

https://steemit.com/israel/@dwinblood/re-deliberator-question-time-israel-20180515t204908238z#@deliberator/re-dwinblood-re-deliberator-question-time-israel-20180515t210648707z

The trouble often starts when parties show up uninvited like the US in Syria and the Israelis in Palestina and my country long time ago in Indonesia. This is true for a nation but also for a house of a child as you describe.   And on steemit hopefully discussions go peacefully.

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howdy @openparadigm well said! Israel is always painted as the evil aggressor in every situation by almost everyone except the U.S. It's ridiculous. Israel has done more to help mankind and the rest of the world than anyone besides America and yet she is condemned for defending herself and why we give millions every year to the Palestinians is beyond my comprehension. Great post!

The level of disinformation in this article is mind-boggling. While condemning the MSM you are using the same deceptive tactics they deploy. Some things are in too plain sight to cover up. Anybody  with a clear and open mind sees Israel for what it truly is, a supremacist apartheid state. You single out the tragic murder of this beautiful young Israeli lady after one of the deadliest days of the conflict. 60+ Palestinians were slaughtered, among them 7 kids under 18 - NONE Israeli casualties!!! This being a continuation of the longest military occupation in modern history, with the blockade on Gaza going on for 10 years and counting, rendering it an open prison camp. You don't think religious extremism may foster in an environment where families are cut off of water supply, cement and other indispensable resources? Where IDF soldiers cheer while shooting unarmed Palestinians? This is all in the open for anybody to see. Palestinian violence is in retaliation of Zionist apartheid laws and illegal occupation of their land. The girl in the picture above would still be alive if her parents hadn't moved her to an Israeli settlement that was built on illegally occupied land that belongs to Palestine. The UN has issued countless resolutions concerning Israel's violations of international law, but the US conveniently block them each and every time. While Palestinians fight for their natural right to return to their native home land with rocks and sticks, Israeli Occupation Forces use live ammunition, tear gas and drone bombs which have killed, maimed and injured thousands of Palestinian civilians. The numbers of Palestinian and Israeli casualties speak for themselves:

http://ifamericaknew.org/stat/deaths.html

And make no mistake about it, the Israelis are not even hiding the fact that they revel in murdering unarmed Palestinians:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjTkJIPKj80

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVRQBO__cYk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duRAy789aAE

Yet you seriously try to paint Israel as the victim even though it's clear to any sane person that it is a terrorist state who will take no prisoners in their quest to expand its territories. Israel has no regard for international law, as any totalitarian state, including Saudi Arabia and the US. It comes as no surprise that Israel and Saudi Arabia are the US' biggest allies in the Middle East, for no one bears more responsibility for the bloodshed and chaos that have devoured the region for decades. I can hardly fathom the sheer level of ignorance displayed here by one @janton who claims to be a Christian no less. Brother, if you really follow the teachings of Christ you would seek the truth as it will set you free. Your statement that " Israel has done more to help mankind and the rest of the world than anyone besides America and yet she is condemned for defending herself and why we give millions every year to the Palestinians is beyond my comprehension" has me in complete and utter disbelief. However I believe in the goodness of your heart and that's why I'm taking the time to help you see clearly what you claim is "beyond your comprehension". I might even write an entire article about it, that's how much this blog has inspired me with its distortion of the facts.

The most important step is that you stop being wrapped up in the flag. The notion that the US is anything else than the successor of the British empire is ridiculous and only held by brainwashed Hollywood consumerists. Americans are no more God's chosen people than the Israelis. Even if they were that wouldn't give them the right to spread terror and mayhem across the globe. The US constitution used to be a shining example of a great understanding of morality and justice, but has been violated so flagrantly to the point that it's not any more valuable than toilet paper. A good start to educate yourself about US imperialism is this three-part series on post 9/11 foreign interventions:

https://consortiumnews.com/2018/04/25/how-many-millions-have-been-killed-in-americas-post-9-11-wars-part-3-libya-syria-somalia-and-yemen/

Note that this is only the most recent history. The US has been at war 225 out of her 242 years of existence - that equates 93% of the time. This statistic is outdone by - you guessed it - Israel, who's been wreaking havoc even prior to her existence.

You also mentioned US foreign aid, complaining about the US giving millions to Palestine. Let's put that in context a little bit. US aid to Palestine is $260 million each year, while US *military* aid to Israel alone is $10 million each *day*:

http://ifamericaknew.org/stat/usaid.html

@contextualize: Some leaders do openly state what they want, I'll give you that:

https://medium.com/@TonyGreenstein/making-apartheid-official-why-israels-government-is-introducing-a-jewish-nation-state-law-d5b9ecd96c2c

If you put a fence around me and call it your border, and you keep squeezing me in and I live in dire conditions, yes I will try to push back. Then you can say I attack your border. 
All he same, we can argue until the cows come home who, after all these years, is in the right. The fact is that the geopolitical landscape was irrevocably changed by the creation of the state of Israel. We can call it a land grab, we can call it a rightful gift, the truth is in the eyes of the partisan beholder.
Without going back to the Balfour Declaration, there has, since 1948 been wrongdoing on both sides, and if anger is understandable on both sides, no amount of violence can be justified on either.
After all these years of strife, we are left with a David and Goliath (just referring to the size and power) situation in terms of political power and weaponry, with one unfettered nuclear nation continuing its bid for expansion (see Golan Heights) with powerful western allies on one side, and a ragtag assemblage of resistants, for want of a better word, with fewer consequential allies, internationally ineffective leadership and an abhorrent religion..
Bottom line, I doubt that provocation (on either side) is ever going to yield a lasting peaceful solution, and if we, miles away who for the most part don’t have a dog in this fight, can gouge each others’ eyes out, metaphorically speaking on the subject, it regretfully, doesn’t make me too hopeful about the possibility of peaceful cohabitations …
However, if we can transcend such divides as wrong vs right, left vs. right, liberal vs. conservatives, Jews/Zionists vs. antisemites, and step into a new paradigm, maybe there is hope. 
But maybe I have better odds of seeing a unicorn at my window tomorrow morning.