@randahl The situation in #Gaza is tragic, but after #Hamas (who was elected to power) attacked #Israel 🇮🇱 on October 7th, 2023, they committed the whole area to the blowback of war.

Hamas is (to put it bluntly) a genocidal organization that needs to be removed from power.

They are comparable to the #KKK & #IslamicState in brutality.

Until the 200+ hostages are released (including 6 Americans), the war will continue & #BenjaminNetanyahu will disappointedly remain in power.

@darnell @randahl

This isn't "blowback". And it's not just "war". It's genocide. There is no excuse.

@darnell @violetmadder @randahl What they *would* do and what they *should* do are two separate things. I think they’ve done exactly what people expected, possibly a little heavier on the war crimes.

But there’s no point in trying to answer the “should” question, given the long history of mutual antipathy and aggression in the region. The Israeli gov’t should’t be committing genocidal acts. Hamas shouldn’t have attacked civilians. Israel shouldn’t have created an apartheid state. Arab TV shouldn’t broadcast hate speech towards Jews. And so on, back through the decades.

Wouldn’t it be nice if people could just get along.

@MichaelPorter @violetmadder @randahl That would be nice if everyone got along. When the conflict initially started, I was advocating the temporary removal of civilians as urban warfare would result in the deaths of thousands of civilians (as the world already witnessed in Ukraine 🇺🇦 & Ethiopia 🇪🇹).

No regional government would accept civilians from Gaza (ironically a few African countries did, but their offers were ignored).