There is no way to destroy Hamas with force. I just cannot understand why this isn't obvious to you people. Besides your desperate need to defend Israel, what tells you that this has any hope whatsoever of happening? Even the DF's spokesman recently admitted it's impossible.

Not only do we have countless examples from history: Al Qaeda, ISIS, the Taliban, Nazism all still exist despite attempts to destroy them with force, but it should be obvious that every bomb that lands on the civilians in Gaza radicalises more people. In 10-15 years, when the children Israel has been massacring grow up, Israel will have exactly the same problem it has now unless the status quo changes.

Yes, war killing innocent people is broadly unavoidable. But killing this many innocent people is only unavoidable if you start from a position where Israel's internationally recognised crimes against the Palestinians must continue. I'm not starting from that point.

And as I've already said to you. Gaza doesn't have a radicalisation problem. It has an occupation problem. If I were to kill your children, or if you don't have any, your most beloved people, if I were to steal your home from you, if I spent years treating you as if you were inferior to me, how much "radicalisation" do you think you would need to hate me? It's so ugly, just so infuriatingly hideous, to see this blindness to the cruelty you're advocating.

I'm not "waving my hands around and saying 'genocide.'" I generally avoid the term. I even wrote an article specifically criticising quibbling about this term (though I will say, when your argument essentially becomes, “…but, but, why are you so mad when weeee commit a genocide?? 🥺 Other countries have done it, why don’t we get to do it too?” you’re really scraping the bottom of the barrel).

But yes, if I used the term “genocide” here and it hit a little too close to home, please ignore it. Please, instead, pretend I wrote:

"slaughter of tens of thousands of civilians, maiming of tens of thousands more, destruction of unprecedented amounts of property and civilian infrastructure, and the escalation of settler terrorism in the West Bank and openly genocidal rhetoric from senior politicians, all while Hamas remain in power, their tunnel network remains 80% intact, and over half of the hostages kidnapped by Hamas remain in captivity with Israeli police violently suppressing protests from their families."

This actually captures the point I'm trying to make far better. I'll let the war crimes tribunals argue about "genocide" after this horror show is over.

And Jesus, please stop with the "name-calling" high horse. I called you a baby. Once. And only because you've been acting like one.