60,000 Gazans have been killed. 18,500 were children. These are their names.

[moondust]

10. Largely predictable IMO.

Maybe not quite this bad but it was sure to be very bad given all the years of friction and aggressive confrontation in the region. What the Hell did Hamas think would happen when they attacked a nuclear power that had the backing of one of the world's largest military forces?

Not long after the Hamas attack some of us wondered if an international peacekeeping force might be the only way to stop the carnage and reach a settlement. The Smotrich gang of land grabbers would have certainly objected. I now wish something like that would have been tried anyway. Maybe it still could be. ???