Hi Yuyutsu

"...but when the choice is between their lives and the lives of the children in my family, I have no hesitation in stating my preference."

- Your position is completely understandable.

http://twitter.com/muhammadshehad2/status/1719742662796833156
Israel's Public Diplomacy Minister:
"Erase all of Gaza from the face of the earth. That the Gazan monsters will fly to the southern fence & try to enter Egyptian territory or they will die & their death will be evil.
Gaza should be erased!"
Still questioning a genocidal intent?

Israel-Palestine war: Likud MP calls for Gaza to be 'erased from the face of the earth'
http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-palestine-war-likud-mp-calls-gaza-erased-face-earth

http://twitter.com/DrLoupis/status/1719500463320469988
True face of Zionists. You’ll never see racism like this again

http://twitter.com/DrLoupis/status/1719677069372645421/photo/1
United Nations General Assembly on September 22, 2023, Israel's Prime Minister Netanyahu showed a map of the so-called "new Middle East" without Palestine.
This was two weeks BEFORE the October 7 attack by Palestinian armed groups and Israel's indiscriminate carpet bombing and relentless massacres of thousands of civilians in Gaza.

http://twitter.com/Sprinter99800/status/1719619697715368208
The Israel Defense Forces acknowledged the death in battle of nine soldiers from the 84th Givati Infantry Brigade.
All those killed were members of the same unit and were allegedly ambushed by Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
The footage shows the evacuation of wounded Israeli soldiers.

[Told you all what was going to happen.
This has happened quite a few times so far.
IDF go in, get shot to pieces and what's left of them comes running out
This was always a trap, to MAKE THEM GO IN]

Dear Critic,

«Israel-Palestine war: Likud MP calls for Gaza to be 'erased from the face of the earth'»

You are referring to the immediate emotional reaction of Galit Distel Atbaryan following her breakdown after being made to watch the most horrific raw screening of the October 7th massacres: http://www.timesofisrael.com/mks-are-shown-raw-videos-of-hamas-atrocities-some-leave-in-tears/

\\“After five minutes, I ran from the hall, shaking and crying,” Likud MK Galit Distel Atbaryan wrote on X afterwards. She said she took a tranquilizer from the Knesset doctor waiting outside in the hall “without thinking twice.”//

«The Israel Defense Forces acknowledged the death in battle of nine soldiers from the 84th Givati Infantry Brigade.»

I am surprised at the relatively low number of IDF casualties in Gaza.
Nobody ever assumed that there would be none.

Dear Yuyutsu,

To paraphrase.

'Gazans have been fighting for their homes and survival, so if, as it seems, killing anything in Israel that moves is the only way to stay alive, then so be it!

I also don't like it when Israeli children are killed, but when the choice is between their lives and the lives of the children in my Gazan family, I have no hesitation in stating my preference.'

Let dog eat dog? Is that where we are at now?

Dear SteeleRedux,

Yes indeed, IF killing anything in Israel that moves was the only way for them to stay alive, then that is what they would have to do!

But you can surely see the absurdity for yourself:
The Gazans were previously alive. Their life was not too happy, I acknowledge, and we can indeed discuss the reasons as well as whether and how they could be helped, but alive they were and alive they would stay.

By conducting their despicable attack on October 7th, on the other hand, they don't become alive - they now become dead!

«when the choice is between their lives and the lives of the children in my Gazan family, I have no hesitation in stating my preference.»

Correct, but here there was no need to choose between the two: all children from both sides could have continued to live, nobody had to die.

«Let dog eat dog? Is that where we are at now?»

Yes, for now. It need not be forever.

This article sums up why Hamas must be extinguished.

"Hamas’ savage rampage on October 7, which wiped out more than 1400 Israelis from 22 civilian communities and led to the kidnapping of 239 more, horrified and shocked all civilised people around the world.

However, on a certain level, you cannot call it truly surprising. Anyone who has looked at Hamas’ ideology and record would know that it was morally capable of the unmitigated evil we saw on October 7. That day put paid, once and for all, to the lie being peddled by some that Hamas has somehow moderated over the years. Today’s Hamas looks just like the old Hamas – only better armed and organised, thanks largely to considerable Iranian financial and military assistance.

Lest we forget, this is the group that dispatched waves of suicide bombers into Israeli cities for the decade following the 1993 Oslo Accords, killing hundreds of innocent people on public transport and at bus stops, in cafes, bars, nightclubs and shops.

Since the mid-2000s, Hamas has committed tens of thousands of individual war crimes by launching explosive-laden rockets into Israeli towns and villages aiming to kill civilians. At the cost of untold millions of dollars, Hamas dug hundreds of kilometres of concrete-lined tunnels, including some into Israel to facilitate mass terrorist infiltrations, until stymied by the IDF’s Operation Protective Edge in 2014. Yet they managed to achieve the same goal at ground level on October 7."