[jfman]

Depriving millions of people food, water and energy as a form of collective punishment while raining down bombs is absolutely evil, Pierre. The Israeli Air Force puts the number at 6,000 already. The parallels between the war crimes committed on the Palestinian people, for the sole reason of who they are and where they are born, and the Holocaust are clear.

The hypothetical that Hamas would destroy Israel is just that - a thought experiment. They lack the numbers and meaningful advanced technology to achieve that through warfare. What they would do otherwise is a red herring.

I do agree on this point: war is nasty and horrible, don’t expect reasonable outcomes or actions. When terror groups fight back according to their limited technological capability and skill sets (essentially brutality) nobody can truly be surprised. Anyone who genuinely claims if bombs rained down on their towns or cities, killing friends and family members, men, women, children alike, that vengeance wouldn’t be the natural destination for at best a sizeable minority and at worst a majority is lying.