You didn't answer the question, but I will answer yours. No, it is not a requirement for protection of civilians but it would be helpful to know that there are Palestinians that do not support Hamas. That might make separating the wheat from the rat shit more urgent of a task.
The question is irrelevant. Civilians must be protected. (Even the ones who refuse to call for Hamas to surrender)
There you go. Once again an illustration of why nothing has stuck for the last eighty years.
The Arabs have spent 80 years trying to wipe Israel off the map and kill all the Jews. Until they give up on that dream, there will be no peace regardless of what Israel does.
The Zionists invaded Palestine. There were already people there. Israel has spent eighty years subjugating, corralling, and marginalizing the people who they invaded. If you want to go back further, Moses' tribe invaded what was later Palestine. There were already people there. First stop was wiping out every living thing in Jericho.
And the Israelis have been trying to wipe out both Gaza and the West Bank for the past two decades.
Two decades ago Israel withdrew from Gaza. They haven't been "trying to wipe it out".
So are you of the belief if a question is irrelevant in your mind it does not need to be answered in a discussion?
You're wanting a discussion about something that isn't relevant to me. However you need to accept that I'm not interested in the discussion is up to you.
The Jews have been living in Israel for millennia, surviving under the thumbs of wave after wave of conquerors--the Greeks, the Romans, the Arabs, the Turks. Many Jews did flee to other lands or were dragged away as slaves (the Ashkenazim and the Sephardim) but they still held out hope they could rejoin their Mizrahi brothers in the middle East. The need for a Jewish homeland become more urgent with the rise of antisemitism in the 19th Century. Jews were killed in pogrom after pogrom in Europe and the Middle East. It became clear that Jews could no longer afford to depend on the kindness of strangers, hence Zionism was born.
WTF is this mess?
An attempt to get some folks to actual focus on the reality of the issue. And I don't think it's a mess at all.
It is a mess. It doesn't make me focus any differently than I already am and I have no reason to skip over your odd formatting BS to get your message.
They weren't there first. What part of the Jericho story can't you absorb? It's the Jews' own chronicled history. They are quite proud of crossing the Jordan and wiping out the inhabitants of Jericho in invading and seizing someone else's land and displacing them (and, in their own description, killing every living being, human and animal alike). It doesn't matter that they have been there for millennia when the reality was that there were those there already and the Jews invaded, slaughtered, and have been doing all they can to displace them.
Or maybe you not demanding to be catered to.
Lol, whatever works for ya
Israel has Palestinian hostages too. They just didn't pick them up in as a disgusting way as Hamas did. In fact, they've got way more than Hamas has. Check the numbers of hostages Hamas has released in swaps to the number Israel has released. And most of the Palestinians in Israeli custody weren't afforded the same regard that Israeli citizens would be in the circumstance in which they'd been incarcerated.Lol, whatever works for ya
The reality of the situation is that Hamas still has hostages and has refused to surrender while preferring to put its own people in harms way
I see Hamas literally putting its own people in harms way on purpose. I don't see Israel doing that.
No, Hamas doesn't give much priority to the welfare of Palestinian civilians. That doesn't make Israel any sort of saint. Israel gives even less regard for Palestinian citizens. And, worse than that, Israel drives Palestinians into the arms of Hamas and does so knowing that folks they have guilted for eighty years will not see Israel's role in the radicalization of Palestinians.
The Arabs are not indigenous to Palestine. We can't undo the Arab conquests of the last 1400 years, but the Arabs don't have more right to Jerusalem than the Jews do just because they built a mosque on top of the ruins of the Jewish temple.
I have seen much more effort from Israel to protect civilians. Are they saints? Nobody is a saint in war. I support peace and the return of hostages.
Hamas has nothing to gain here except holding off their demise. They have no objectives except not to be killed at this point. Surrendering would be their best option.
