My sincere sympathies are with all those bereft of children by the violence in that land, both Israeli and Palestinian. No doubt this latest outrage will see more Palestinian children die in retaliatory strikes, leading to more suicide bombings, leading to more retaliation from the Israeli army. Grief is grief, and each new round in the cycle of violence, which has thus far seen at least four times as many Palestinians killed as Israelis, just makes a solution seem further and further away. When one's eight year old child is killed, I suspect it makes little difference whether the killer wears a uniform or not.