Hamas' brutality is unpardonable

[TheKentuckian]

194. I didn't mince words. I said as many as it takes and as few as possible.

The other course on the menu also known as allowing for continued attacks, a repeat, or risk further escalation is completely and utterly off the table and it is complete chaotic evil nonsense to pretend such is remotely acceptable.

Not never. No way. No how.

I don't even begin to understand what anyone sees as a rational possibility. A situation where state actors are rewarded immunity if they are willing to stoop low enough is in no way tenable. Civilization at large will collapse under that strained thought process.

Acquiescing, placating, accepting, and eventually surrendering to these tactics is suicidal.

Further, you're right.

TheKentuckian doesn't imply there are Hamas supporters and a fuck ton of apologists for them. There are antisemitic folks. There are Death to Israel gang members.There are useful idiots for Putin, theocracy, the Republican white nationalist crime syndicate and domestic terrorist organization that would aid and abet bring fascism to power in our nation.

It is my position that such is evident and incontrovertible.

Supporting an environment that Hamas can only thrive in is being pro Hamas regardless of motivations or intent otherwise.

Helping to completely undue our own flawed democracy and feed the globe to the worst actors on it in a misguided at best effort to do so is just batshit crazy.

The good news is there is no reason to believe anything resembling the doomsday scenario presented will be necessary.
The bad news is the toll will be catastrophic but maybe down from previous expectations because being more targeted is possible as the noose tightens...69,000 - 74,000 may be in the range of plausible outcomes. .

Approaching 1 for 1, maybe even to it considering there are a great many Hamas operatives in above ground capacities as well.

That would be pretty clean work under the circumstances. The population density is very high and when you mix that with how they willfully embed into the the population and civilian infrastructure we are talking a bad situation.