It is astonishing the ignorance on this forum. No understanding of geopolitical reality or the suicicde of Hamas by recording these atrocities with gleeful abandon. Israel is a shit country but Hamas crossed a rubicon by this very televised terrorist attack. that peo-le are trying to justify this murderimg of women and children (with glee!) is astounding. Nine innocent Americans are dead. If you are American and can condone this you are a traitor.
I don't recall anyone condoning Hamas' actions here. The only argument you really see is that most of us understand what tends to happen when you push people to the absolute brink. There are certainly many other options for Hamas, but this is the one they chose. Horrifying and condemnable as it is.
The hard-line Israel supporters here, or anywhere, also really shouldn't be surprised by this. Such people tend to believe in their hearts anyway that Palestinians are savages, dirt people. Unwashed. Maybe even below the dalit in India. This is what ultra zionists are expected and, logically, have been insuring would only ever happen. WHy act surprised and horrified when a group of people do exactly what you've always believed they will do? This is actually what such people want, to be honest, to be proven that their objectionable racism and inhumanity are true, when all you have to do is torture and imprison an entire culture, steal everything of theirs for generations, and just wait for the response. This is pretty much what Genocidists want--the necessary hardline excuse to enact their final solution. Such, to be honest, is the conservative hardline morality that you find in Israel.
To be clear, I certainly think the only way out now is to eradicate Hamas and remove them from history. But I know that isn't really what Netanyahu and such want--they want total ethnic cleansing, and this was pretty much the event they have long been aiming for.