My parents are from India -Pakistan and did experience some of the trauma of the partition in which. millions of people lost their lives, something that could have been avoided had the British government and officials wanted to avoid that catastrophe.

You say 'No-one likes indiscriminate killing'. Yet such acts were exactly what Israel was founded upon... and the people orphaned/rendered homeless and stateless, two generations on, are being subjected to indiscriminate killing. Again.