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In reply to the discussion: Hamas' brutality is unpardonable [View all]Richard D
(8,874 posts). . . And I don't think that is accidental. The amount of propaganda that is created about this is insane - all to make it seem like Israel is acting in revenge in the most blood-thirsty manner possible. This is absurd and, at its core, highly antisemitic.
People need to really ask themselves what they would do had such a thing happened to their loved ones, friends, neighbors, and relatives. The horror that those victims of Hamas went through is really too much to comprehend. We can read about it, but what those poor women went through is beyond the point of revenge. It is not beyond the point of preventing again, though. That is the critical point that way too many are missing. And they are missing it because they are being programmed to miss it and see it as revenge. This is "Blood Libel."
What would I be willing to do to prevent such a thing from happening to my daughters? This is not a rhetorical question. Hamas and many Palestinians have promised they will do it again to an even greater and more horrible extent. I would do anything necessary to protect them. Otherwise, I would not be human. Any other conversation is bullshit noise. Too many want to forget October 7. Too many want to forget the poor women who were gang raped, tortured, mutilated, and beheaded. Too many want to forget the young woman who was paraded through the streets of Gaza, her body spit upon, not by Hamas, but by the people in the streets to the shouting of Allahu Akbar, her breasts cut off and played with. I get nauseous just writing this.
IMNVHO, Israel showed great restraint in their response. Yes, it was brutal, and yes, it had to and has to be. People squawk about genocide and ethnic cleansing. Were that the goal, the war would have been Biblically completed and over on October 8, with no further loss of life to Israeli soldiers and "not one stone shall be left here upon another" in Gaza. But they didn't do that, and they are doing what they can to lessen civilian casualties in an impossibly crowded urban environment - even though this is costing the lives of many hundreds of Israeli soldiers.