Jesus Rex. Why are you so blind on this? Please, explain to me why you're so desperate to find an alternate explanation for a man advocating the murder of all the women and children. Netanyahu didn't say, "we may have to accept the deaths of some women and children as the price for destroying Hamas, as much as it pains us."

He cited this story:

Samuel said to Saul "Now go, attack the Amalekites and totally destroy all that belongs to them. Do not spare them; put to death men and women, children and infants, cattle and sheep, camels and donkeys.”

So Saul summoned the men and mustered them at Telaim—two hundred thousand foot soldiers and ten thousand from Judah. Saul went to the city of Amalek and set an ambush in the ravine.

Then Saul attacked the Amalekites all the way from Havilah to Shur, near the eastern border of Egypt. He took Agag king of the Amalekites alive, and all his people he totally destroyed with the sword. But Saul and the army spared Agag and the best of the sheep and cattle, the fat calves and lambs—everything that was good. These they were unwilling to destroy completely, but everything that was despised and weak they totally destroyed.

Then the word of the Lord came to Samuel: 11 “I regret that I have made Saul king, because he has turned away from me and has not carried out my instructions.” [...]

Samuel said [to Saul], “Although you were once small in your own eyes, did you not become the head of the tribes of Israel? The Lord anointed you king over Israel. And he sent you on a mission, saying, ‘Go and completely destroy those wicked people, the Amalekites; wage war against them until you have wiped them out.’ Why did you not obey the Lord?

I believe you have too much integrity to deny that you're eager to defend Netanyahu here. To believe that he was talking about Hamas even though the story talks about putting women, children and infants to death. So please, I'm dead serious, could you try to explain why? Would you extend this same generosity of interpretation to the passage in the Quran that Hamas quotes in its founding charter talking about killing the Jews to bring about the day of judgement? After all, rocks and trees clearly aren't going to cry out that there are Jews hiding behind them, right? This is clearly just a metaphor for the Israeli government and the settlers who Hamas are "resisting."