Obama's view
From this news story:
When President-elect Barack Obama went to Israel in July--to the very town, in fact, whose repeated shelling culminated in this weekend's new fighting in Gaza--he all but endorsed the punishing Israeli attacks now unfolding.
"If somebody was sending rockets into my house, where my two daughters sleep at night, I'm going to do everything in my power to stop that," he told reporters in Sderot, a small city on the edge of Gaza that has been hit repeatedly by rocket fire. "And I would expect Israelis to do the same thing.":
From what I gather of Obama's way of doing things, this was probably just another in a long string of telling a particular audience what they wanted to hear, but it's interesting anyway.
Three more weeks until the buck stops somewhere new.