I remain on the fence.
Oct 7th was a massacre to precipitate a full blown war.
Hamas methods, defending a dense urban warzone, will explicitly result in mass casualties for their own people.
They knew this, they wanted this, they got this.
The reports from Israel certainly call into question the conduct of the war. The day to day and minute by minute decisions. On how to fight, on who to shoot or bomb. A lot of the reports are distressing in the sense that... it reportedly LOOKS like a rampage... a counter massacre. Even a Genocide. There appears to be no effort to seize control of and save the non combatants. Things that should be safe, that Israel declares safe... are death traps.
I would only fight like that if it was a fight to the death.
Is Israel justified in feeling that way following Oct 7th?
Or have they used it as an excuse to go too far?
I can neither endorse Israel's reported actions, nor accept a ceasefire in which Hamas still exists.
The proper outcome would be for Israel to seize Gaza and its people entirely. To intern, disarm, and absorb the people into Israel itself. To make life out of death.
Perhaps that outcome is just an idealistic fantasy, and death is the only practical option humans will allow. If both sides are committed to the annihilation of the other, are they not forcing us to choose a side? Stopping Israel means Israelis will die. Stopping Hamas means Palestinians will die.
What real choices do we have?