-It's interesting that as Murray spoke I found myself countering satisfactoraly in my head every angle he tried to push...it wasn't really hard as his speel was essentially an appeal to emotion avoiding all that messy stuff involved in such things as "cause" and "effect". It goes without saying that Finkelstein would have him and his presumptive "debating points" in and out the cleaners in seconds.
On the events of the seventh of October I've reached an entirely rational conclusion that the side responsible for the mass of deaths & casualties was the side which fired the most ordinance on the day. It goes without saying that this was without question Israel and on an exponential scale.
"twenty-eight Israeli combat helicopters fired all of the ammunition they were holding, including hundreds of 30 mm cannon shells and Hellfire missiles, during the day."
-Then they went back to load up again I understand. Aside from that within the next day or so Israeli tanks were also used to shell Hamas fighters in the Kibbutzim killing even more Israelis under the Hannibal directive...though of course they claim that's not in force anymore...Which is I'm sure, a great comfort to the families of the dead Israelis killed by their own army.
Anyways I don't think it requires anything more complex than a statistical glance of the firepower used to assert that the bulk of the entirety of the deaths in October the seventh and the following days were caused not by the Hamas action but by the Israeli reaction.
-This will become clearer as time goes on... but unfortunately not in the minds and mouthpieces of Israel.