With respect, this seems like a very one-sided, inflammatory and simplistic analysis on one of the most complex geopolitical situations there is from someone who, the other day, was confusing religion and race.
A lot of people on here sound suspiciously like they have all the answers, but from a very one sided point of view that excludes Israeli and Jewish opinion and action. There's so much misinformation out there I think we should all be wary of being as confident as you are about who is being killed, who is Hamas and who isn't. Where exactly are you getting this information from? Hamas literally have built a military base under a hospital, a war crime in itself, incidentally.
Israel most definitely need holding to account for any action that breaches wartime convention, but you can't compare what they are doing now, however reckless we might think it is, during wartime, to what happened on 7th October: the literal targeting of civilians, rape and infanticide.
The obvious concern many people have (Israelis and Jews especially, as well as most Western governments), is that a ceasefire, while it all sounds lovely, is likely to just emboldened Hamas and give them time to regroup and potentially commit a similar atrocity.
Would you be happy with that if you were a Jew living in this country with family in Israel?
One more question: we have a ceasefire tomorrow (that neither side wants, a fact in my first post that you ignored) then. What's your solution to ending the conflict permanently? I presume Hamas surrendering and the hostages (remember them, anyone?) being released is Step One?
It's a bit reductive to say I confused religion with race, the point was clear. If Palestinians were white Christians then this wouldn't be happening, and the two state solution would've been sorted decades ago, or more likely a solution less favourable to the Jewish people.
Yes, numbers can be taken with a pinch of salt, but we're clearly looking at at least 5 Palestinians for every victim of the Hamas attack. If the majority of those were active terrorists, then we'd have seen far more frequent and deadly attacks on Israel, surely?
Strange how every hospital they've targeted, every refugee camp, every caravan of refugees, every residential building, have all been Hamas bases, or housed senior Hamas officials. Evidence has been in short supply, and credibility is often on the levels of 'Comical Ali', but so little of it has been questioned. The strategy of using a chainsaw instead of a scalpel to weed out Hamas is just left to run. The massive civilian loss - literally thousands of children, by anybody's figures - immaterial to Western politicians and media.
Every single war ever, has ended because of peace talks and a pen and paper - or because one side has obliterated the other. Politicians need to choose which one is acceptable, because Israel isn't going to stop until there's either political pressure from the West, or military pressure from the East. And if it's the latter, then the stakes are upped to either peace, or a world war.
Long term the solution needs to be a genuine two state resolution, with land compromises by Israel. UN peace keeping with regular inspections, probably for decades.
I've said previously - and don't feel the need predicate every post with the same - that what Hamas did on October 7th was appalling and inexcusable, and they need to be stopped and brought to justice. But I absolutely object to ordinary Palestinians paying the price for their crimes, whether it's as deliberate revenge, unavoidable consequence, or accidental collateral damage.
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