I keep hearing a “but” every time this issue comes up. It’s always “what the Palestinians did was wrong, but…” but there is no “but”. There is a gradient scale on the appropriateness of certain ways to do war. On one end, you have the act of simply not engaging in conflict, but this leads to innocent peoples’ innocence being taken advantage of and so nobody does it. Then near the other end, you have things like what happened on the 7th which has been compared to Pearl Harbor and 9/11. The victims that day, who Hamas could’ve simply preached to if they wanted to, never saw it coming, never had any reason to deserve it except for the fact they just happened to come into the world where they live, and will never live to realize what happened. That one “but” is the closest thing they have to any kind of defense and it’s sometimes never even used. Keep in mind I don’t approve of any form of war that isn’t defensive (and am wondering if Palestine finds it fitting that the people the terrorists gave PTSD have a bad opinion of them now, who would’ve thought) and especially don’t approve of war drafts. Naturally, I don’t hesitate to compare what happened to that.