None of us are justifying terrorism or kidnapping by Hamas.
The Israeli Government response is grossly disproportionate, with some 8,000 people including some 4000 children dead and hundreds of thousands homeless.
The late Rabbi Goldberg in the Dispatches doc of 2009 clearly says that Israel is conducting apartheid policies. They had also invaded Gaza in 08/09, killing some 1400 people.
This is exponentially worse than that, and that was an atrocity.
Israel is making itself a pariah in international terms, rejecting the eeasonable resolution supported by 121 members, calling it 'infamy'.
The International Criminal Court is now examining what has happened in Gaza and by Hamas on Oct 7th.
But of course Israel is not a member of the ICC!!
I feel so sad and helpless looking at this tragedy. All I can do is pray that the slaughter and suffering comes to an end quickly.
Finally, in the 30 years of the Northern Ireland ,'Troubles', there were tragically many deaths on all sides.
In those 30 years the total deaths were about 3,500 - 3500 too many. But less than half the total killed already in a few weeks in Gaza.
That is a chilling fact.