No one cares about the Palestinians ... least of all their own leaders. No one cares about the Palestinians ... certainly not their self-proclaimed "supporters."

The blame for almost all Palestinian civilian casualtiesin Gaza can be placed on Hamas. Indeed, the Gaza conflict was incited by Hamas in large part to CAUSE civilian casualties. Even Hamas is not unrealistic enough to think that launching Qassams is going to accomplish any military objectives; this entire operation is a publicity stunt for Hamas, designed to garner praise in the Arab world for "fighting back" and to garner condemnation of Israel among the European Left.

Consider the front page article in the Sunday NYTimes: A Gaza War Full of Traps and Trickery:

Hamas, with training from Iran and Hezbollah, has used the last two years to turn Gaza into a deadly maze of tunnels, booby traps and sophisticated roadside bombs. Weapons are hidden in mosques, schoolyards and civilian houses, and the leadership’s war room is a bunker beneath Gaza’s largest hospital, Israeli intelligence officials say.

Unwilling to take Israel’s bait and come into the open, Hamas militants are fighting in civilian clothes; even the police have been ordered to take off their uniforms...

Israeli officials say that they are obeying the rules of war and trying hard not to hurt noncombatants but that Hamas is using civilians as human shields in the expectation that Israel will try to avoid killing them.

... [E]ven Israel’s critics agree that Hamas’s regular use of rockets to fire at civilians in Israel, and its use of civilians as shields in Gaza, are also violations of the rules of war. Israeli military men and analysts say that its urban guerrilla tactics, including the widespread use of civilian structures and tunnels, are deliberate and come from the Iranian Army’s tactical training and the lessons of the 2006 war between Israel and Iranian-backed Hezbollah in Lebanon. 

But the Israelis are doing a great deal to avoid civilian casualties:

The Israelis say they are also using new weapons, like a small-diameter smart bomb, the GBU-39, ... which is very accurate, has a small explosive, as little as 60 to 80 pounds, to minimize collateral damage in an urban area. But it can also penetrate the earth to hit bunkers or tunnels.

A new Israeli weapon, meanwhile, is tailored to the Hamas tactic of asking civilians to stand on the roofs of buildings so Israeli pilots will not bomb. The Israelis are countering with a missile designed, paradoxically, not to explode. They aim the missiles at empty areas of the roofs to frighten residents into leaving the buildings, a tactic called “a knock on the roof.

Hamas tactics are working just fine! Hamas sends its own children into the line of fire and the European and American Left reward them by criticizing the Israelis for "brutality." Because they can be counted upon to reward Hamas for using human shields, they arguably bear responsibility for encouraging the use of human shields. Ironically, the very people who pride themselves on their "concern" for Palestinian children are ensuring, through their actions, that more children will be deliberately used as cannon fodder. 

No one cares about the Palestinians, least of all their "supporters." Rather than condemning the people who deliberately arranged for the deaths of innocent people, the European and American Left actually rewards them. The next time any "supporters" of the Palestinians consider how to inform the world of their "support," they might ask themselves the following question: "Will my action, writing, comments, etc. prevent the use of human shields or encourage it? If your action will encourage the use of innocent Palestinians as human shields, you should probably not do it ... but that applies only if you actually care about the Palestinians, of course.