There was and is still no proof that Hamas was responsible for the kidnapping of the two Israeli's teenagers. Netanyahu was quick to blame Hamas in a manner similar to Bush blaming Iraq for some tacit role in 9/11. Shortly after the event started an Israel spokesperson admitted in private that there was no evidence that Hamas leadership ordered or had any knowledge of the abduction [1][2]. Anti-arab (hateful and extremely disgusting) riots broke out in parts of Israel after the abduction which resulted in an Arab teenager being killed. From this point Hamas started launching rockets and Israel responded with bombing.

It is my opinion that all of the parties were complicit in the escalation. It is also my opinion that Israel alone is guilty of heinous war crimes. But I had another point with my comment: The content of the article did not require placing any blame what-so-ever. At best the author placed blame as a means to give Wired's American readership the moral relief they were looking for, something that appears to be a prerequisite for any article or discussion on the PA/IL conflict within the US.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Israel%E2%80%93Gaza_confl... 2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_kidnapping_and_murder_of_...

Wow, maybe read the reply to you by @cyphunk. You accuse me of being unhelpful and not contributing, and then you fan the flames by making an arrogant capitalized assertion about something which is well known to be controversial. You will note that my reply was sarcastic (as is your first sentence), but did not make arrogant assertions about that over which reasonable minds may differ.

You might want to review this exchange and think again about who is contributing to the thread in a reasonable way that respects differing views.