A Seasonal Exception
For the most part the row triggered by talking about this issue isn’t worth the row, but with over 200 dead I am prepared to make a seasonal exception. This scale of killing is absurdly disproportionate. If Israel imagines that it can kill of the widespread support for Hamas (a democratically elected body) in this fashion they have failed to learn from the distinct absence of success when they adopted much the same strategy over the past decade.
If you want a shot of despair then try reading this.
My choice quotes:
Even if the end figure of deaths has more naughts at the end, I am still in support of Israel’s response.
And:
Hamas had it coming. They are completely to blame.
Well let us hope that only Hamas were killed in these effectively indscriminate killings over 200+…