'He who lives by the sword will perish by the sword.'

As I weep at the carnage amongst the Palestinian population of the Gaza strip I cannot remove this single thought from my mind. It recurs and recurs. Every time we see pictures of hapless Palestinians amongst their dead families and their broken children - I cannot but ask myself whether these self same people had been cheering when the wicked Hamas were launching rockets into Israeli civilian areas when the Israelis were not responding in kind.