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In reply to the discussion: Hamas' brutality is unpardonable [View all]The Magistrate
(96,043 posts)Because we both know that not one bomb would have been dropped on Gaza over these past weeks, not one person there killed or maimed, save for the spree of sadistic rape and murder Hamas indulged itself in on October 7.
What you asking for is a mass outbreak of sainthood, simultaneous with perfect execution of military operations. This is not going to happen. We are left in a situation where one party deliberately goaded the other into a rage, and now cries that the armed forces of the people they tortured and killed are over-reacting to the horrors they committed. That party has stated explicitly it intends to repeat the outrages in future at every opportunity. I've yet to hear anyone who disapproves what Israel is doing suggest a practical alternative it might pursue to liquidate Hamas and neutralize this threat.
"Do unto others 'fore they do unto you."