Thanks to blacktygrrr for her correspondence. I was discouraged after the election, and I have not been writing much.
The Palestinians are using a crude infantry suppression weapon based on a Russian version from WW II.  I don't know the Russian name for it but the German version is the Nebelwefer.  The Nebelwefer is rocket propelled artillery and it is good for covering a broad range of territory.  However it is inaccurate, that is you can not aim it with any precision.  Isreal is using precision based weapons to reduce civilian causalities.
The Palestinians are acting like barbarians.  Hamas won the election; the Europeans say.  So did Hitler and the Palestinians should pay the same price as the Germans.  Anyone who tries to convert from Islam in Gaza faces a potentias death threat.  According to the ACLJ and the Voice of the Martyrs, Christians are being harrassed in the Gaza strip.  Ehud Barak practically offered the Palestinians the whole store, except Jerusalem, but they would not accept it.