" Ask why they would want to target innocent children and make themselves despised among the nations of the Earth and no one can tell you that either. "

Well that's true: we really can't work it out at all.
We think...surely a people treated as subhuman and murdered en mass could never conceive of doing the same to other people? But we were wrong: they did and are, through Israel's utterly indiscriminate bombing and sniper bullets.

And this: "...And I do not minimise the tragedy that has befallen Palestinian children. "

As though this "tragedy" has no cause...It just "happens"...a supposed intellectual giant can't join the dots of simple cause and effect.

-The level of self-deception is award-winning: just stop supporting Israeli infanticide Jacobson and you won't be accused of supporting infanticide.