round and round and round we go

BBC reports today that Israeli soldiers in the West Bank town of Jenin shot and killed a 12 year old rock thrower. In light of yesterday's increasingly-radical statements by Hamas, Israeli forces should consider that sometimes discretion really is the better part of valor. [update: fwiw, AHN is reporting that the 12-year-old kid, Ahmed el-Khatib, was carrying a plastic gun]