I should’ve asked for clarification in my original post or stated more thoroughly that I’m aware Hamas is objectively the evil here.
I wasn’t sure however if Palestine people not affiliated with Hamas are also on the wrong side of this. I was under the impression that Israel had done bad things in the past to Palestinians that had no affiliation to Hamas, and Palestinians had also been horrible to Israel too.
Hence my “both sides “ suck. Hamas I completely agree has no silver linings of any kind.
It's a war, so there are always casualties. But a few things to consider.
For starters, there has never been a Palestinian state in the whole of history. Bu there has been a kingdom of Israel.
After the end of the kingdom of Israel, the jewish people have been driven away from their land, or murdered. Both by Muslims and Christians.
After the end of the Ottoman Empire, there were proposals to create two states for Palestinians and Jews.
The Palestinian leadership has always denied this, because they demand the destruction of Israel and the genocide of the jewish people.
When the Israeli state was create, it was done with the vote of the majority of the nations in the UN. Including the whole of the Soviet block.
The entire world understood the need to create a Jewish state, to avoid the repeat of the Holocaust. Or the Inquisitions. Or the Pogroms.
As soon as Israel was created, their neighbors attacked Israel, in an attempt to destroy it and kill the Jewish people there. Israel won, otherwise, we would have seen another holocaust.
The neighboring Arab countries, have since declared war on Israel, several times.
Eventually, even these countries realized it was best to normalize relationships with Israel and promote peace. The first was Egypt.
And recently, Saudi Arabia was about to normalize relations with Israel.
But still, groups like Hamas and Hezbollah, continue their attacks against Israel.
But there is a great difference between how Israel wages war and how Hamas wages war. Israel targets military assets, but sometimes, there are civilian casualties. Just like in any other war.
Hamas targets civilian targets, not military targets. And they purposefully place their personnel and military equipment in civilian infrastructure, such as schools and hospitals, as to cause more civilian casualties and blame Israel for those.
Israel creates safety rooms and bunkers to protect it's civilians. Hamas creates tunnels and bunkers to protect only members of Hamas and deny the entry to any Palestinian civilians. And claim that protecting Palestinians is a job for the UN and Israel.
