No longer defending Israel

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38. Israelis have killed almost 200 humanitarian aid workers have now been killed and at least 95 journalists and media

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workers since October 7 when Hamas brutally attacked and slaughtered so many people. News reporters have documented that these and other humanitarian aid workers applied for permission from the Israeli government, filed travel plans with the IDF, and traveled in marked vehicles. Sometimes they'd received permission, other times they never heard back. So the idea that all of these killings were merely accidents does not seem plausible.

Chef José Andrés says his aid convoy and workers were targeted. https://www.democraticunderground.com/100218833058

Israel certainly has the right to exist and defend itself against a horrific attack to make sure it never happens again.

But under Netanyahu, they are in violation of conventions of warfare agreed to under the Geneva Conventions and are giving lip service to protection of civilians while actually moving them into what turns out to be harms way. Children are dying from hunger and the government is choking food aid off so that continues to accelerate. They are not succeeding in winning the release of most of the hostages, causing increasingly desperate pleas from families and ever-larger internal demonstrations.

Bibi seems to be using this war to prevent accountability regarding crimes he has been charged with and to cling to power. It seems increasingly clear that under his leadership, war crimes have been committed quite egregiously. That is not in Israel's longterm interests, whether or not it satisfies the understandable human desire for revenge. At this point, the only strategic benefit it may bring will be very short-term, while the longterm harm to Israel will last generations. Bibi is making Israel heinous in the eyes of the world and it is obscuring what Hamas did because it goes on and on and on and on.