Amps Yes, yes it does. They are one of the most well funded and technologically advanced war machines on the planet and they are bombing a concentration camp they created.
I hear you. From what I’m reading though, Hamas may use the civilians as ‘shields’ or rather as people to blend in amongst - upping the casualties - whilst unfortunately for the civilians, aside from being at greater risk of harm or death, also have no choice but to be led by Hamas in the first place.
So if your enemy (stating they are going to attack again) is hiding within those camps what choice would you have knowing you have to stop them? (assuming they really were there). The intelligence side of the IDF seems to be far more advanced than many would have thought.
I’m not pro one or the other btw, and I don’t regard myself as someone who is really in a position to comment I’m more interested in exploring what this is all about without getting into inflammatory comments about sides.
Part of the trouble is history didn’t start on Oct 7th (yet for most watching the news it just about did) but if you go back far enough Israel wasn’t there and the west kicked out native Palestinisns and created a place for european Jews to settle afte ww2 - and that seems to be what Iran and the arab world are hanging onto when time has moved on (is a 9 million population isn’t really going to be wiped off the face of the earth?).
On another hand, Israel didn’t stop there and they kept occupying more land/ejecting home and land owners in smaller communities (I saw an interesting dressing down on this by an Irish MP)
It’s no doubt more complex but for me, the sooner we get away from oil and other such assets being a measure of power to fight over the better - but the above has interested me, especially about the oil and gas no one on the news is remotely helping everyone understand.
Civilians always pay on all sides - not just physically but psychologically long-term (whilst having the effect of recruiting more on both sides against their respective enemies). For me sitting here it can’t be that hard to learn how to cooperate but the minute someone kills my family member that would all change because I am personally and very emotionally involved, skewing away any ability to think rationally or reason my way out of conflict logically.
It’s a mess and we need to all learn other ways of resolving energy/food/land balances etc and probably find a new way to lead countries co-operatively if there was ever a way to break the cycle.
