Tell me why anyone supports Hamas. This is sadistic.

[Arazi]

31. I believe the US is probably doing everything it can atm

Providing both ammunition and intelligence but tbh, I don’t think we’ve got a lot of our own assets in there. We’ve mostly relied on Israel to be our eyes and ears on the ground in that region. We already give them a boatload of support for that “service”.

That they failed so spectacularly is stunning.

The US is also one of Gaza’s largest humanitarian aid providers as well so I’m not sure what else we can do for them either. The Palestinians destroyed all trust by squandering billions of humanitarian aid on their terrorism infrastructure - Im not sure throwing more dollars into that cesspool is productive atm until Hamas is gone. Otherwise it’s just money feeding their insane jihad against Israel, with very little going to innocent civilians.

I had a dialogue with another poster on a different thread who wants US soldiers to be fighting in Gaza but imo that would be a massive mistake. Joe Biden would never recover from Americans getting killed fighting in another foreign conflict, our already-tattered international reputation as butchers would be relentlessly paraded in the Islamic world if/when American soldiers inevitably killed civilians (cause urban warfare is always a shitshow).

We don’t have a lot of leverage here despite everyone crying for Biden to implement a ceasefire now. He’s not the PM of Israel and so this ugly horror show is going to continue until Hamas gives up or is eradicated enough that they’re no longer a security threat to Israel. Nobody likes it. If it’s any comfort, this war isn’t even in the top 10 of civilian deaths in the past 50 years. Imo Israel is actually trying to keep the civilian death toll at a minimum but Hamas is determined to put their innocent people in front of their fighters. They believe in martyrdom as a good thing. It’s very hard to get around that mentality… cold comfort I know. 😞

My best advice? Work like hell to get Joe Biden re-elected. We need his old and steady hand at the wheel to continue working on Likud and Netanyahu. If there’s ever going to be a 2state solution at the end of this, he’s probably the only one who can pull it off but he has to be in office to do it.