Of course not. They're openly dedicated to exterminating all Jews and destroying Israel. They can't so they settle for simply killing them to provoke a response, knowing that rather naive idealists sitting at a distance will ignore what Hamas did and its mission to focus solely on the fact that because Hamas bases itself around the densest civilian areas, responding to terrorist attacks will kill Palestinians.
They have always diverted aid of all kinds, whether it's fuel, food, cash, anything away from the Palestinians who chose them as their government.
They indoctrinate Gazan children from the moment they learn to read with the most virulently anti-semitic swill, knowing that a combination of that and the first thing I mentioned guarantees that they can
actually recruit more Palestinians by intentionally getting the Palestinians killed.
You can't meaningfully negotiate with them because they do not recognize Israel as a state with a right to exist. You can't simply give Palestinians a state and say "there, now play nice", because there is no reason to think they wouldn't just elect Hamas again and continue the cycle.
Hamas does nothing but bring misery to the region. And Israel has to fight Hamas no matter what a 'morally superior' left-lean westerner thinks because if a Jew knows anything it's that nobody ever comes to save us unless it's by pure accident and way too late for it to accomplish much of anything anyway (ie, WWII, which we wouldn't have fought if Japan hadn't bombed us and Germany declared, and the Holocaust).
Israel doesn't have the luxury of the Westerner-at-a-distance; the person who takes the position that Israel should just accept that Hamas is going to kill Israeli Jews.
Is this becoming the new standard to side-step Israel wholesale killing plenty of Palestinians in an effort to hit Hamas?
Are you under the impression that by saying that and only that in context of this thread, you are somehow
*now* side-stepping wholesale Hamas's mission, Hamas's constant terror attacks ever since its foundation, the 10/7 massacre, and its promises of future massacres?
Because that's exactly what every single person whose only analysis is "omg, look at all the dead civilians and Hamas terrorists, Israel shouldn't fight"; who only ever say "Israel is going too far" ...
...without ever - not once on this board, at least - attempting to formulate a detailed plan of action in which Israel
does get to use deadly force against Hamas and articulate why it would actually work.
Those who have tried to morally brow-beat me on issue side-step all that to the end. Their view is apparently that the Israeli Jews should just accept their lot and let Hamas do what it will. In the name of "fighting apartheid" of course. In fact, they don't even talk about Hamas.
