I think it's perfectly reasonable to acknowledge the decades long circumstances leading up to this are complicated to say the least, but to criticize Israel's response is just stupid and asinine. If my family was gunned down in the street or being tortured, I'd be a bloodthirsty maniac. No self respecting nation wouldn't go scorched earth after something like this. My heart breaks for the hostages right now and the unspeakable horrors they're being put through, can't even fucking imagine what them and their families are going through. I hope the Palestinian civilian casualties are kept to a minimum….but man, there's no clean way to do this with an enemy like Hamas.