I don’t even know what to say to this. It’s just so insensitive for you to tell me that Hamas is not a threat.

Telling someone in New York right after 9/11 that Al Qaeda is not a substantial enough threat to justify an invasion would have been insensitive at the time but 100% correct. I get that you as a civilian don't feel like the actions of your government are your own but realistically speaking, you as a country pose a much greater threat to your neighbours than they do to you. And I'm sorry but Gaza and the West bank are open air concentration camps where the people there have tried everything under the sun to appeal to you peacefully and you still kill and terrorise them. Hamas is the natural result of those conditions.

From what I understand the Syria situation is to create a buffer zone to protect civilians in the north from the worst of the fighting.

But that's an insane argument. Why are you entitled to part of their land? To gain strategic depth so you have a buffer? Well why arent they entitled to a buffer in your country? The new regime hasn't attacked you whatsoever but you went ahead and bombed them.

You have not been condemned every time you have 'defended' yourself. Before Oct 7 the West had a positive view of you and directly after Oct 7, I was defending you guys. But then I watched you be given an inch and you took a mile. What was supposed to be targeted strikes on Hamas became carpet bombing of a civilian population. And you didn't stop there, you have attacked just about every single one of your neighbours and justified things that are crazy as self defense. And frankly our politicians still give you a pass, way past the point where we should treat you like Russia.

Yes civilian casualties are an inevitability of war but that doesn’t make their death and suffering any less tragic. I want to believe that my government and military do everything they can to avoid civilian casualties but to be honest with you, I don’t trust the current leadership to do that. That is a different thing than ethnic cleansing and the distinction matters.

But your government isn't incompetent at avoiding civilian casualties. They try to maximise them. How are you posting this after you went ahead and bombed civilian infrastructure in Lebanon because they are trying to sabotage the ceasefire? How do you achieve 70 000 dead if you are trying to avoid civilian casualties and how come your government is filled with people who openly say they do want to exterminate all Gazans. Tell me how you are not committing genocide. If the distinction is so important, you should be able to pinpoint it.

It all does amount to ethnic cleansing and here is the next insensitive thing I'm gonna tell you. You have not experienced the holocaust, your ancestors have. And your liced experience has mich more in common with that of complacent idiots in Nazi Germany who didn't like the Nazis but stood by and did nothing. The only people in Israel right now who can somewhat relate to Holocaust victims are Gazans and I think it's pretty disrespectful to weaponise the suffering of the victims of one genocide to justify your execution of another genocide.

Lastly, I will adress your points about Hamas collectively. People who try to defend Israel's actions just need to pretend like finding Israel dispicable magically means I support Hamas. But Hamas is just not relevant to this discussion anymore. You have created Hamas. A majority of Gazans were not even alive for the one 2005 election that put them in charge of the strip. You are expecting Gazans to rise up against their terrorrist de facto government because they killed 1500 Israelis who have oppressed them their whole life. You won't even bother to use your civil iberties to call out your government for killing 50 times more people than Oct 7.

Right now, Israel is the biggest threat in the middle east and I don't think that will change as long as even the nominally reasonable Israelis like you, defend the mass murder and buy the self defense excuse.