This is just it though.
Some would charaterise Israel as something more like a genocidal, international-law-breaking coloniser. And claim that your focus on the "individual attack" on October 7th is missing the "big picture" about overall numbers. After all, Israel has killed at least 10x as many innocent people as Hamas or even Palestine have of the course of this conflict.
They would say that Palestinians are resisting a brutal, invading force that allows its citizens to murder, terrorise and displace innocent Palestinians. Even today.
And Israel haven't respected the rule of law. At all. Given your obvious knowledge of the conflict, the only way I can characterise this statement is intentionally dishonest.
Every piece of land Israel has occupied since 1967 is in contravention of international law. They have committed a litany human rights violations, documented by several organisations, they have discriminatory laws in Israel that disadvantage the Arab population to ensure a Jewish majority and to grow that majority in other regions of the Occupied territories, the West Bank Barrier cuts off swathes of land that aren't Israel's either, I invite YOU to research more thoroughly if you're genuinely unaware of this. Or is this all outside of the "big picture"?
We will never know how many Palestinians the IDF has killed while they waved white flags or sat in safe zones. You can repeat all you like that's a tiny number. But the truth is you have absolutely no idea and this is just wishful thinking on your part. Every case I present to you is dismissed as an anecdote instead of part of a very obviously larger pattern. Cameras can't be everywhere all at once. Especially in a war zone. But it's naive to the point of folly to believe that every one of those shootings has been a rogue IDF soldier acting against orders.
The media isn't out to get Israel. This persecution complex, honestly, is getting a little dull. Vast swathes of the media and the international community is very obviously completely in Israel's pocket. But the rest of the world is watching Israel commit a genocide. And every morally intact person, however horrified they are at what Hamas did, is asking themselves, "wait, how can they justify this?" Nobody would care if those were Hamas bodies piling up. But they're not. They're women and children by the tens of thousands.
My solution is for Israel to begin the hard work of fighting through the tunnels several months ago. But failing that, then to do it today (I've never said anything about a ceasefire). My solution is for Israel to abide by the ruling of the ICJ, as tepid as it was, and "refrain from acts under the Genocide convention, prevent and punish the direct and public incitement to genocide, and take immediate and effective measures to ensure the provision of humanitarian assistance to civilians in Gaza." My solution is for Israel to lay out clear, measurable objectives for success and to recommit to a two-state solution.
But see, I've answered your question and you still haven't answered mine. What, specifically, are the success criteria? How do Israel and the rest of the world know when those criteria have been achieved? Is it enough that the party called Hamas is removed from power? Even if another party that hates Israel even more takes their place?
And I'll add, what should Israel do about the crimes it's been committing since long before October 7th and is still committing today? What should Israel do for the people of Gaza who they've repeatedly said they aren't at war with, and yet have ruined the lives of almost all of them. Those who still have lives that is.
Because just in case it's not absolutely clear, those people dying in Gaza aren't writing on Medium either. They're living in hell (or more correctly, dying) while Zionists in the U.S claim it's "tragic," and then shrug their shoulders and hide behind hyperbole about the Holocaust. It's shameful. Several actual holocaust survivors have pointed this out.
