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Originally Posted by jfman

In fairness it wasn't Hamas that bombed them into oblivion, which is probably their most immediate concern. If you asked them today support for armed struggle against Israel has probably gone up - it's a far easier choice if you have nothing left and will be collectively punished anyway.

Equally if Hamas - terrorists - were so all encompassing in terms if the administration of Gaza prior to this why would anyone civilian speak out to put themselves and their families at risk for the performative pleasure of people in the west indifferent to their destruction?

Equally if Hamas - terrorists - were so all encompassing in terms if the administration of Gaza prior to this why would anyone civilian speak out to put themselves and their families at risk for the performative pleasure of people in the west indifferent to their destruction?

You’ve packed a whole load of gollox into that paragraph. In the previous paragraph, you mentioned the Gazan’s ‘immediate concern’. However, apart from the first three words, your 2nd paragraph ignores the trigger to Israeli retaliation: namely October 7th invasion and massacre in Israel.

The ‘west’ isn’t threatened with obliteration by Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran. The west doesn’t have to make the hard choices facing Israel in dealing with these terrorists, who hide behind the civilian population. If the people of Gaza are so stupid (or scared?) as not to rise against Hamas, there is very little choice that Israel has in dealing with the existential threat facing them.