Do you support the IDF action in Gaza?

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

14. I had similar hopes, but not the confidence.

As my comments during the period with missile strikes before the ground invasion noted. I said that instead of missiles, they needed to be moving in with militarized swat teams and snipers, and ONLY targeting the militants firing rockets, not destroying neighbourhoods and killing civilians. My low expectations as to how they would actually go about things were sadly the reality.

Of course, the more info that's come out, the more I'm thinking that prior to Israeli assaults, Hamas was actually playing it straight, and trying to convert over mainly to a political force in a unity government, and that Netanyahu and the IDF used attacks by non-Hamas militants as an excuse to try and break the fledgeling unity government apart before actual peace could be a result, and drive Hamas back into exactly the sort of stupid and violent ways they held to in prior years, so that the hard right in the Israeli government could keep power as a 'counterbalance'.