Ah, okay, great. I agree with you. Violence is wrong. So let's say that happens tomorrow. Does Israel have to renounce it's violence too? Does it have to stop stealing Palestinian land and terrorising Palestinians civilians? Does it have to stop killing Palestinians in the West Bank (around 300 since October 7th, even though Hamas has no power in the West Bank and no attacks have been launched from there)?

I'm trying my best not to add to the noise around this issue, but God damn, arguments like these are so grotesquely stupid. I refuse to believe you're morally bankrupt enough to think that if someone in a country commits an atrocity, the injured party has carte blanche to slaughter as many of the innocent people from that country as they like.

And let's flip your question. If someone is trying to kill you, and they hold up a child in front of you, is it cool to just unhesitatingly kill the child? To shoot through them or beat them to death? Please, go ahead and answer this.

If it were your child, or the person you love most in the world, would you shrug your shoulders if the police just blithely killed them in a random hail of bullets that only clipped the criminal? Would you claim that the criminal was "entirely responsibile" for their death?

Because if I was given the choice between shooting an innocent child or risking being shot myself, I honestly don't think I'd shoot the child. I certainly wouldn't shoot 10,000 children. And I certainly wouldn't shoot any children before I tried things like giving back the land I stole from the people who live in that criminal’s country, or relinquishing my control over access to water and electricity and travel to the people who fight on his behalf.