It takes two to tango, as we all know, and this latest event may be a disproportionate response, but what did people think was going to happen?

Israel has been saying for DAYS that they would respond if the attacks didn't stop. Did Hamas think Israel would just keep turning the other cheek while their militants fired rockets into Israel, again and again?
No country on this earth would endure an assault on its territory and citizenry without responding forcefully.

Hamas knows that Israel is the bigger dog in this fight, so they should have anticipated a strike of this magnitude when they began and kept up the attacks.

I feel badly for the innocents on the ground who get caught in the middle, but I don't think that Hamas gets to play the victim card in this episode.