[machina_ex_deus]

Tell my friend whose both parents were murdered in Nir Oz that Hamas isn't an existential threat. Hamas is an existential threat. We cannot live in peace while it exists. We're done tolerating Palestinian aggression. Hamas wasn't an existential threat when it was just rockets, but once they've crossed the border and assaulted our cities where we live they became an existential threat we cannot allow, even if the world screams genocide as we destroy them.

We're not here to win the victimhood competition. This isn't 9/11 where the U.S living peacefully wasn't threatened. If we don't eradicate this threat our cities will be assaulted again.

We're here to live in peace, and if that means eradicating hamas while there are heavy Palestinian casualties, so be it. That's the only option for us to live in peace. This is an existential war for Israel. There are relatively few casualties compared with what would've happened if Israel actually decided to genocide the Palestinians. We could've killed them all if we wanted, but we only fight Hamas as we must do. Eradicating Hamas is a daunting task. We're actually fighting selectively at the cost of our soldiers lives. If the intention was genocide the Palestinians would've been dead by now. The intention is to destroy Hamas at minimum causalities.

[the_gipsy]

> If the intention was genocide the Palestinians would've been dead by now. The intention is to destroy Hamas at minimum causalities.

It is a genocide, no matter how much rhetoric you spew. Actions speak more than words.

[1oooqooq]

i think you're just spewing what you heard on the media and don't really have friends in nir oz. in fact don't think you have many friends. if you really had friends in nir oz, i apologize for the wrong assumption and in sorry for the loss. but then you would know exactly why hamas exist as it is territory taken in 48.