[koutetsu]

I think that no matter your view on the mafia or Hamas, it still doesn't justify the amount of death and destruction that is being done in Gaza. No matter how you spin it or sugar coat itw killing, displacing and starving civilians, killing aid workers and journalists and destroying civilian infrastructure are war crimes. As for the Al-Shifa Hospital, Israel's SWAT is either incompetent or not a SWAT team at all judging by the length of the operation, 2 weeks, and the photos of the Hospital after they left.

[Workaccount2]

But Hamas is a cancer that constantly is trying to metastasize into Israel. Seriously, what is Israel supposed to do? Anything they label as "Do not attack" just becomes an attack vector for Hamas.

[koutetsu]

I will try to answer that question. I think it's better to find the actual reason for what's happening rather than focus on the symptoms. Perhaps Israel could stop being an apartheid[0,1] and treat Palestinians equally. It could also stop imposing a blockade on Gaza[2] and allow it to blossom again and remove the need for supporting Hamas. It could as well allow Palestinians to exercise their right to return to where they or their parents lived [3].

It's easy to point the fingers at Hamas for the region's suffering but that is dishonest and completely omits the big role that Israel played in creating this and previous events.

[0] https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/12/05/does-israels-treatment-p...

[1] https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/apartheid

[2] https://www.unicef.org/mena/documents/gaza-strip-humanitaria...

[3] https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/01/27/gaza-two-rights-return

[tzs]

> I think it's better to find the actual reason for what's happening rather than focus on the symptoms

You should take your own advice. You didn't cite any reasons. You just cited earlier symptoms.

[koutetsu]

Perhaps you could help me with that? I was trying to reply to the parent's question about what Israel is supposed to do and offered some alternatives to indiscriminate killings. The part about the right of return dates back to around 1948, right around the time the state of Israel was established. How far back in time should we go for it to stop being a symptom and become a cause?