Thank you very much for your comment. I agree that the situation is very sad.

I will comment on two of your points.

Hamas does not intentionally target kindergartens and hospitals only because their missiles do not have that kind of precision. But anytime you send thousands of rockets into a city you are bound to hit some and they have no regard for this. The Israelis do occasionally kill civilians in combat but so do US troops and so do UN troops. Israel is one of the most conscious armies of this and has developed a lot of methods to minimize civilian casualties. Many of these methods put their own troops at additional risk. But bottom line is anytime you are fighting an enemy that is using human shields, you can only be blamed so much if you can’t eliminate civilian casualties. The sad thing is that while the Israeli army is portrayed as having little respect for human life, Hamas is not criticized for doing things like building bases in a hospital or school and putting those people in huge danger.

As for your suicide bomber point, I want to make two points. One, why are we not more angry with the people that are convincing them with money and fairy tales of virgins in heaven to become suicide bombers. Two, at the end of the day even if you are poor and fearful what kind of society values life so little that it would advocate suicide bombings. This is again a topic where you want to blame Israel because they are seen as the strong but the weak is not always the right or always the victim. Break down the methods of fighting used by Hamas and tell me how they can claim any kind of higher ground. Sending rockets into densely populated civilian areas and using human shields and suicide bombers is not the act of a moral enemy or one that deserves rights at a typical bargaining table. Even the US realized 20 years back that you can’t negotiate with terrorists.
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I have never heard of Hamas intentionally targeting kindergartens and hospitals, but the Israeli army has certainly wiped out many civilian targets, often with children and families becoming victims. Most of the suicide bombers just seem to be otherwise ordinary people who have grown up in a culture of violence, chaos, fear and desperation.

I’m not involved in the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. I am just an outsider who tries to see the situation from all perspectives and it is just sad any way we look at it.
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