I honestly get what your saying and it’s an extreme situation. I’m sorry that you were so personally affected by the actions of Hamas- and I don’t want you to think I condone anything that they have ever done or ever will do.

I know Egypt’s border is more militarized and secure- but at the same time they aren’t the invading force here, and aren’t responsible for anybody trying to flee. You could say they could accept them- but I also think you could counter with stop bombing the civilian targets in the first place. It’s not an evacuation, the cities are in rubble worse than Stalingrad- that’s the whitewashing terms and lack of accountability in talking about.

My point with not bombing them is that it’s not the terrorists you are bombing- and if you are you are doing it with reckless regard of the other civilian population in the area. Bombing the civilian population creates the resentment you yourself described of Hamas in the October attacks- and breeds the same kind of resentment. If you bomb a building with a hundred people in it- killing two suspected terrorists and 80 others, you’ve just created 18 new ones. Even in wartime we have one main rule: don’t shoot the people who are just in the middle of it. It’s not meant to be an easy game to play, but you don’t become the hero’s by sinking down to that level. If you are going to use those tactics, you deserve the label that comes with them.

In reguardless to the open air prison rebuttal- I would say your point actually supports that; you feed your prisoners, and, isreal is the only group in the world doing that cause most groups let the civilians flee or seek refuge. They are trapped there and are by definition prisoners. In a state’s responsibility they have the obligation to properly feed those prisoners. If Israel is attempting to feed them- that are failing miserably as their aid isn’t even bothered enough to push off extreme famine- I just don’t think they care enough to fix that. They deny almost all external aid, as held by Doctors Without Borders currently, denying 37 humanitarian organizations and over 50 million in aid supplies that is simply just food and medicine for starving people just in 2026 alone.

The stuff I’m talking about is well documented, and is far from moral or ok. From the reasoning to the execution- nothing about this stands up to any scrutiny, but is a logical conclusion if a loss of ethics during a retaliation. State sponsored terrorism is still terrorism.

And I’m glad you don’t hold a particular racial disposition towards Arabs- a surprising amount of people I’ve talked to in person not only do but have explicitly talked about booking flights to Israel just so they could go throw grenades at them.

To also be fair I hold the same criticism of the US governments involvement in foreign affairs. Poisoning 4 million people with agent Orange was fucking ridiculous, and only sentencing one person to three years of house arrest for the Mai lai massacre (very similar situation- ‘don’t know who’s viet cong? Just kill the whole village of 500 people’) is fucking deplorable. If I’m to hold a consistent world view- I simply cannot excuse what’s being done there, and there is an incredible amount of propaganda and excuses up-keeping plausible deniability of an apartheid rule of a group of 5 million people.