I mean, Hamas' actions on October 7th lend a degree of credibility to this, no? And interestingly enough, Israel's response has a shocking number of defenders. Even now, with ~17,000 Palestinians dead.
Attacking the settlements (without slaughtering and raping the settlers) would certainly have been mor…
I mean, Hamas' actions on October 7th lend a degree of credibility to this, no? And interestingly enough, Israel's response has a shocking number of defenders. Even now, with ~17,000 Palestinians dead.
Attacking the settlements (without slaughtering and raping the settlers) would certainly have been more legitimate and would have, as you say, drawn attention to an issue not nearly enough people know about. Funnelling their billions of dollars into Gaza and helping the Palestinian people would have been even better.
But Hamas chose what they chose because it's the best route to what I still believe is they central aim. They might well also have been hoping for the reputational damage that would come from Israel's response. But this also reveals their disdain for the Palestinian people.
I hope you don't think I'm defending Hamas. I think their attack was stupid, atop everything else that was bad about it.
Agreed they don't care much for the Palestinians. They knew Israel would monstrously over-retaliate and pile the bodies up to the sky and did it anyway.
"without slaughtering and raping the settlers"
They could at least have not fired missiles as schools and hospitals, taken pains to spare children, and, yes, absolutely, refrained from rape. But there would have been "collateral damage," a term I hate as much as you do.
"but only a fool believes its true."
I mean, Hamas' actions on October 7th lend a degree of credibility to this, no? And interestingly enough, Israel's response has a shocking number of defenders. Even now, with ~17,000 Palestinians dead.
Attacking the settlements (without slaughtering and raping the settlers) would certainly have been more legitimate and would have, as you say, drawn attention to an issue not nearly enough people know about. Funnelling their billions of dollars into Gaza and helping the Palestinian people would have been even better.
But Hamas chose what they chose because it's the best route to what I still believe is they central aim. They might well also have been hoping for the reputational damage that would come from Israel's response. But this also reveals their disdain for the Palestinian people.
I hope you don't think I'm defending Hamas. I think their attack was stupid, atop everything else that was bad about it.
Agreed they don't care much for the Palestinians. They knew Israel would monstrously over-retaliate and pile the bodies up to the sky and did it anyway.
"without slaughtering and raping the settlers"
They could at least have not fired missiles as schools and hospitals, taken pains to spare children, and, yes, absolutely, refrained from rape. But there would have been "collateral damage," a term I hate as much as you do.
"I hope you don't think I'm defending Hamas."
Oh, no, of course not. I know you better than that.