@lethargilistic @dung_eater @palestine @NoFlexZone @argumento @HistoPol @Lastresponder @Outpatientzero
Hamas broke the ceasefire with a massacre. They killed about 1,200 people, explicitly targeting civilians, including infants and elderly. They beat and raped and kidnapped. They're still holding hostages, who are presumably being beaten and raped.
No country in the world would have just let this slide. You can spout anarchist nonsense. You can complain about the exact methods used in the retaliation. You can try to blame everyone but Hamas for the war they intentionally started.
But you can't pretend that this was ever going to end any other way. Hamas got the war they demanded and all the civilian casualties in Gaza that they could have hoped for. Mission accomplished.