The world has declared that Israel is committing genocide

[TheKentuckian]

132. Natural, I could buy. Rational? All but devoid of such

Unreasoning, reactionary, emotion driven, and generally illogical.

All real world considerations just cul de sac at the children.

Understandable at a gut and heart level but the pretense that impunity for Hamas is in any way remotely sane says that rationality is out the window.

What passes for being thoughtful is avoiding obvious real world considerations and/or demanding appeasement to actual surrender on top of the absolute impunity.
The top shelf stuff tosses magic beans to sprout.

Supporting and rewarding this evil is cancerous. Civilization loses by default.

The espoused conceit is that wanton barbary combined with a willingness to spend every last drop of your own people's blood is the golden ticket.

What passes for a rationale is that our very humanity dictates that the innocent be protected at all costs so if such actors insist in such behavior the only choice is to absorb whatever than dish out and to find "peace" via appeasement of the terrorist.

For the children.

...supposedly.

In reality, eye to eye the percentage that would mutter a word about anything that breathes, crawls, flies, swims, walks, or cries is going to be very low.
I would give small odds of getting to 15% in anything like the heat of the moment and just as likely if not more so for the "bloodthirsty" to be among that sliver.

Nearly infinitely full of shit.

Our reaction to forever aggression, much less the most vile depravity inflicted on kids at a festival to terrorize up close and personal would be absolutely off the meter.
It has been demonstrated repeatedly and consistently.

We all know good and well the reaction to a proportionally far smaller attack and we didn't even worry about going after the actual perpetrators and I don't mean the exact guys, I mean at all. Not even at all, in any way.

No, not even like a year and a half later with some time to cool the wraftful rage factor a tad.

Or the millions more we obliterated without so much as a punch thrown in our general direction for fear of Domino theory or just for some black gold all across the world over decades.

All the self righteous preening is either delusion or lies and probably delusional lies.