Not many other ways to make 1.1 million people really angry, on top of all else. Not everyone there is a terrorist, but they all have to pay the price for the actions of those whose are.
Oh there'll be a much larger number of terrorists after this.
What would you do if your family was killed by a government claiming you're inhuman just for existing and your neighbour deciding to launch a rocket at that government out of sheer frustration for their living conditions.
Honestly can't blame them if they did. Obviously killing Israeli civilians is indefensible but they are ensuring that thousands more will grow up hating all Israelis. The same logic Israelis and Israel supporters are using to kill innocent Palestinians is what Hamas runs off of. Each group blaming the entire "other" group for everything. Exactly like netanyahu wanted all along I imagine.
A much higher number of justifications for that government to crack down even further. First you demonize the enemy, then you strike against them, and when they inevitably defend themselves, you have a justification to kill the people trying to kill yours. That playbook is millenia old and still works.
What's Hamas mad about? Have they been the subject of unjust oppression or something? As if perhaps the collective world is saying "Well of fucking course this would happen, look at what they are forced to experience"? Are there political options to end the genocidal policies that are reasonable for the continued existence of both people? Are people forced to choose leaders that present the only solution available for the option of a life not under constant oppression like a WWII Warsaw ghetto?
Nah, that can't be it, they must just hate the Jews or something.
If I lived in Gaza now, I probably would have started to think Hamas were right all along.
And the only reason I'm not, is because I was lucky in my birth lottery. I am here not there. I am safe, and not there in danger for my life.
It's literally just luck.
Not everybody is so lucky.
I wish cooperation was a lot more typical in the world, instead of the egoistic and power hungry normal that it is. Doing whatever one can do to get an upper hand, instead of just trying to make the world a better place. In the long run, we all would benefit.
That is sadly what I fear, too. They had the Gaza strip locked down in all sorts of ways before and they will not award the Palestinians any breathing room...
Yes. Israel is defending themselves against Hamas terrorists, they don't fight for fun. "It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don't want victories anymore." - Golda Meir.
What on Earth would lead you to think Hamas cares about Gaza residents? The whole point of Hamas's attacks was to provoke this sort of Israeli reaction. The innocent Palestinians who are going to die in this attack are no more than disposable pawns and human shields to Hamas.
Hammas local command is built in tunnels under an hospital in Gaza Strip. The options Israel have are: A. Don't hurt Hammad to save Palestinians but suffer more attacks on Israelis. B. Kill every last hammas member, getting some Palestinians dead, but saving its own citizans.
Shity options, one has to be made.
On the grand scale of things, Hammad directly killed more Palestinians than Israel did. They murdered membera of FATAH for example.
So if this war actually eliminate Hammas (spoiler: it won't) than it will save the life of many Palestinians that don't agree with Hammas.
But wannabe leftists on the Interwebs from safe westarn countries want to be cute and defend Hammas cus they are supposdly the opersed party.
It's totally okay to label Hamas as terrorists if they act like terrorists. But that doesn't make all Palestinians terrorists. And it's obviously not okay to order an entire ethnic population to just go somewhere else or to attack civilians.