Reply To: They won’t will they?

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I pressed send too early. This is a response which should be under my above post.

Maybe, but it seemed to be a defense against a position I was not stating, so said such for clarity.

I think there is not much more to be said from me, and realise I am an opinionated sod. I realise most who disagree on here have their own perspective which is well meaning. I wish the same could be said for many of the activists. However, I still think a country has the right to react to hostage taking and an attack on its countrymen. Not many say the US was the aggressor or war monger in WWII after Pearl Harbour, yet this was an attack on Israeli civilians which makes it even more outrageous. Is there a better way? I won’t say there isn’t, but no-one (across wider spheres than this forum) has been able to suggest a workable one. The results of war are often brutal, but I don’t see how Israel is primarily to blame here given the context. The calls to evacuation are an attempt to mitigate civilian casualties, which shows there isn’t a genocidal intent. Disagree with it, point out the stress on resources elsewhere, but it demonstrates a key rebuttal to genocide claims since that is reliant on intent to destroy a culture. I don’t claim to know what’s best, the complexity of it all is disheartening since I can’t see a way out of it besides suffering for those involved (Israeli or Palestinian). One thing that can be done is a global call for the release of the hostages. That might be some leverage. However, it’s not yet happening and I can’t see the Palestinian activists bothering, even though it would help Palestine.