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Originally Posted by Adder
Can we at least be at least a little uncomfortable about bombing civilians who are essentially trapped in an open air prison?
There are victims of Hamas on both sides of the border.
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Yes, and we should be. I also 100% side with the notion that the Palestinians in Gaza who are not Hamas or Hamas supporters do not deserve what they're getting.
Your second point is most important, and isn't being stated nearly as often as it should. The responsibility for the deaths of innocent Palestinians in the Israeli siege lies exclusively with Hamas, who decided to go ISIS on a much stronger neighbor and desired - sought exactly - the violent response that resulted. And then, cowards they are, slunk back into Gaza and used the Palestinians they pretend to care about as human shields.
Hamas might as well have saved gasoline and massacred the innocent Palestinians of Gaza itself. Because that's exactly what it did when it decided to go medeival on Israel. And why did it do it? To protect itself. If Israel and SA inked that peace deal, Hamas was permanently marginalized. Hamas might minimally care about Palestinians, but what it really cares about most, with everything else a very distant second, is its own power and survival. It'd rather keep the Palestinians in squalor and stay in power than improve their lives and concede its power.
