This.
I mean, this is what really horrifies me. Innocent people are dying and we're talking about whether a state is justified to continue killing them. How efficient have these attacks been at neutralizing the threat, RJ et al.? Seriously, of all of the extreme violence perpetrated by members of both sides, what has come of it?
I like to believe that a majority on both sides are good people who are equally horrified with what's going on. I've tried to keep my mouth shut on this issue because I have so many friends and family members (both Israeli/Jewish and Palestinian among the former and only Israeli/Jewish among the latter) on both sides of the ideological divide, but as the bodies continue to mount, racism and callous hatred are spewed in the name of some contrived ethnonationalist ideology (seriously, google Zionism), and Gaza is literally pounded into submission, I just can't...