Israel may "win" the battle for Gaza and destroy Hamas (who deserves to be annihilated), but I don't know if Israel will ever recover from being vanquished in the information war and largely world-wide court of public opinion. I'm afraid the death of so many Palestinian children will stain Israel for a long, long time.
@EdgeOErin Israel is not using those children as human shield, Hamas is. Hamas did this to Palestine, not Israel. Everyone needs to get this into their thick skulls.
Meanwhile, Hamas is still holding over 200 hostages, and one of them is only 9 months old, actually, 10 months old now if that baby is even still alive. Oh, and that baby doesn’t have parents because Hamas murdered them.
@LindaGoodliffe I agree with you, Hamas is scum. They must be annihilated. I believe there was an opportunity for other solutions (read my other responses if you can), but, sadly, I think that time has passed. I feel for both sides...what Hamas did was absolutely horrible.
@EdgeOErin I watched one of the few hostage negotiators who got Hamas to release hostages, like 10 hostages in exchange for 100 Hamas prisoners, and it took him FIVE YEARS. Israel is doing the only thing they can, in my opinion. The rest of the Arab world should absorb Palestinians, and be done with this.
@LindaGoodliffe I agree other countries should bring in Palestinians temporarily and then lands Israel stole from the West Bank should be returned to them. Israelis and Palestinians both deserve their own homeland. Forcing Palestinians to a new land, or for other countries to absorb them is like saying Europe should've absorbed all the Jews after WW2, or Russia and Europe should be absorbing the Ukrainians today