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I think the point that people are trying to make is that Hamas terrorism isn’t representative of all Palestinian people.
I feel as though the focus should be on eradicating and arresting the terrorist cell not bombing the entire neighborhood where they live, civilians and all. Although I understand that an investigation needs to be completed to determine which group actually carried out the hospital bombing and whether it was deliberate.
I do feel as though as a westerner without formal education or study of the matter I’m not qualified to point fingers in the whole thing other than to say that one atrocity does not justify further atrocity.
Not kill everyone there as your method of dealing with the situation. It's literally a hostage situation on multiple fronts and Israel is choosing to kill everyone, hostages included.
Blame 'the west'
Okay, fumny.
But for real, what would be a solution?
That's only a question when you conpletely ignore history and pretend that nothing happened before. Terrorist don't jsut pop up randomly. They are created by circumstances.
You shouldn't ask "what's the solution to a terrorist group embedded in a civil population". Your actual question should be "What did we do to create that problem and how could if have been prevented?". Even if you only ask that to not do the same shit again...
And in Israel's case the answer is very easy. They could have worked on peace and independence of Palestinia 30 years ago, like it was planend when the National Autority was created to gradually do that. Instead they spend more than a decade on being happy with the status quo of an occupation they don't even had to pay for as that was covered by international partners... until Hamas got a majority in 2006. Then they could have supported the peaceful government in their fight against Hamas ~15 years ago. Instead they watched cheering for Palestinians fighting other Palestinians... until Hamas controlled Gaza. And then they could have still spend more than a decade of limiting Hamas' influence. Instead it was Israel's government that used Hamas as an excuse to to show the National Authority wasn't speaking for all Palestinians and so they wouldn't need to work with them for any peace.
30 years of bullshit and then asking "what do we do about Hamas?" when the real question is "why did we create Hamas like it is today and why are we still continuing the exact same course?".
Solution? No solution, the only true focus should be blaming other people.