[sudopluto]

People always talk about ending the killing of children... I think the best way to stop children from being in harm in the first place.

Hamas's strategy of using children as human shields will be validated if they escape destruction, inviting them to do it again and again.

War is hell, in this case I have zero sympathy for the people who have repeatably started war after war after war, condemning the future of their children in the name of religion / ethnicity. 20% of Israel is Arab / Muslim, they are not the bad guys here.

[johnnyworker]

They are blowing up courts with no fighters in them, talk on TV about making Gaza unlivable. Netanyahu even invoked Amalek! That's barefaced genocide, against a population half of which are under the age of 15. With extreme military firepower. Soldiers making videos about what they find in private residences, mocking "Arab sluts". Minimum sentence for throwing a rock against a tank is like what, 20 years? They are occupying, annexing, ethnically cleansing guys. But they're "not bad guys" because others are supposedly worse. Right.

Given that, I don't care who you have sympathy for. You excuse bombing a population of mostly children by talking about people who "repeatedly started war after war" (why be content with "repeatedly" or "war after war" when you can just double and triple it and lather it on endlessly).

You will not drag the rest of us along into that monstrous guilt.

And Hamas is not your concern, what the companies and governments you do support and/or are affiliated with are supporting is. Which is genocide.

[tadfisher]

The only reason that strategy is viable is because the Strip exists. Cram 2 million people in 140 square miles, and heavily restrict border traffic, then claim killing children was inevitable when you bomb the place.