I always find it interesting how this logic is always applied to Israel but never to Palestinians. They have been the victims of constant Israeli-backed terror in the West Bank, a place where by all rights they have absolutely no right to be (legally or morally), with thousands being killed or forcibly displaced from their homes and no one bats an eye. When an Israeli sniper takes out unarmed protestors on the other side of the Gaza fence and then cheers about it before uploading it to social media, or they use peacefully protesting Gazans as target practice and then brag to reporters about how many knees they took out that day, no one bats an eye. When an Israeli sniper (who again, should not even be where he is) domes a 9 year old kid from 300 yards away after he was simply near a protest that had already dispersed, no no bats an eye.
Those people don't have the right to self defense. Only Israelis have that right. If they fight back they're branded terrorists and their lives are subsequently forfeit. In other words, Israelis are killed. Palestinians just die. An unfortunate casualty of "war".
The military mission of Israel is to cleanse Gaza of Palestinians, one way or another. @Anastasis has said this before, but not one single motherfucker would flinch if Israel Mossad'd the fuck out of every Hamas leader in Gaza and elsewhere in the world. Hell, I'd fucking cheer. But there's no evidence they're even trying to do that. I can tell you one thing you absolutely do not need to do in order to take out Hamas, and that is destroy Gaza's civilian structure entirely, and make the place unlivable. Funny thing is, though, that's exactly what's happening.
It's great how the goalposts have shifted from "No WAY is Israel deliberately targeting civilians" to "Well they HAVE to deliberately target civilians". But we all knew that was coming.
Do they need to get rid of Hamas? Of course, I wish Hamas would wither and die and never come back, but that's not the fucking goal. Bibi needs Hamas in order to justify retaining power. If there is no enemy to provide that justification, he and his bloodthirsty Likud brethren lose power and he likely enjoys a significant part of the rest of his life in prison. He's now gone too far and has to either back off or finish the job by killing them all or ejecting them all from Gaza somehow.
Yeah no, you clearly don't. All the weird, Christofascist bullshit about how scary Muslims are you got run off from the CR thread for posting clearly illustrates that. Let's not dabble in lies, just say what you really feel. "Nothing can be done" is a bullshit sentiment, you just don't want anything to be done.