Can We Support This Culture ?

Hot Air posted an article today about the targeting of an Israeli school bus with an anti-tank missile launched in Gaza. 

The article pointed out:

"Only a week ago, Hague's office released a report on the world's 26 worst human rights violators. Israel was in the report, along with 25 actual human rights abusers. If, as Hague says above, he has reports that Hamas deliberately targeted the school bus (which it did), then this is not a "despicable and cowardly act." It is a human rights violation. It is a war crime. And yet, Hague doesn't use that language to describe it. Why is that? Why is it that his office can slander Israel as a violator of Palestinian human rights, but it can't call a war crime a war crime? The deliberate targeting of civilians is a war crime. Hamas deliberately targeted a school bus full of children (it hoped)."

Hamas routinely targets civilians.  Sderot has been the target of random Kassam rocket attackes--between 2001 and January 2009, over 8,600 rockets were launched at the city.  On July 4, 2008, Arutz Sheva reported:

"The children of Sderot will soon be able to run for cover from rocket attacks, even on the playground.  The new bomb shelter will look playful, however.

"The city is in the final stages of building a playground that includes a tunnel for a quick escape from Kassam rocket barrages, reports the Sderot Media Center (SMC).

"According to construction manager Boaz Etzion, "The idea of the park is that when there is a Color Red [incoming rocket] alarm, the children can run quickly to safety in the tunnels."

"...The escape tunnel, at a cost of 150,000 shekels ($46,000) is being built in the shape of a centipede to make it appear to be part of the playground and not like a bomb shelter."

This is the behavior of Gaza before it becomes part of the state of Palestine.  Do we have any reason to believe that Hamas in Gaza will behave better if a state is declared?  Do we want to encourage this sort of behavior in a nation that wants to become a state?  This is not a cultural norm that will be a positive contribution to world peace or world culture.  Can we support it?