Why support Palestinians??
Hamas is a terror organisation. No doubt. They are disgusting. What they did to the innocent civilians and concert goers was utterly inexcusable. Those who voted for them supported terror. No doubt. The Hamas fighters and leaders need hunting down and bringing to justice. The whole world should be appalled. No civilised human being can justify such barbarity. For Hamas to hide in schools and hospitals is cowardly and disgusting. The hostages should be released immediately!! Hamas should be annihilated. No Doubt. They are evil.
But not all Palestinians voted for Hamas. Not all supported their barbarity. Babies did not vote. Starving and bombing innocent people is never justified. Genocide is never condonable. Bombing civilian areas just to get at some Hamas fighters is inexcusable. Even if one innocent civilian is killed or maimed it is a crime. To have killed 30,000 civilian Palestinians and wounded and traumatised another 70,000 is diabolical. To refuse aid to get through to starving and badly wounded people is inhumane. That is my definition of genocide.
Hamas are scum. Palestinians are not Hamas. What Israel is doing is equally deplorable.
I’d support a military offensive against Hamas if it was carried out without such death and destruction. What Israel is doing is similar to Bush’s War or Terror following 9/11 – a brutal, misguided act of blind revenge aiming at the wrong targets. In the long term it will merely entrench the hatred and ensure decades more hostility. Violence breeds violence.
That’s my view!!