So what! It was not Israel that prevented the Palestinians from having further elections. And exactly like Adolph Hitler, Hamas killing off their opposition was not Israel's fault either. So why place so much emphasis on anything Netanyahu did?
Having seen the speech made by Admiral Halsey in 1943 in San Francisco, I like to think of myself as a Halseyite. He said, and I paraphrase, 'in a country like Japan, where the civilian population support the military as they do, the only good Jap civilian, is a Jap civilian that has been dead for six months or more.'
One could readily plug the word Palestinian in place of Jap, and the sentiment would be very pertinent today in the Middle East. Only difference is that the severity of the culture in Gaza is about 10 times worse. A culture that has in their constitution the elimination of a nation state bordering their land, they mean business. Such a culture deserves the exact sentiment levelled in their direction. And when that society launches a surprise genocidal attack on the neighbor state, why that neighbor state would gives two sh*ts about preventing civilian death is a mystery to me. It is outside the bounds of self preservation.
Let's get serious, unless Israel kills every last one of them, the stinking genocidal maniacs that reside in Gaza will provide a repeat performance, even if all of Hamas is eliminated. The population of Gaza will harvest a new crop of genocidal maniacs to unleash rampant murder upon the people of Israel. I say, why let it happen again, do the world a great justice by eliminating every last rat b*****d in Gaza.
The use of the words collateral damage and Gazans in the same sentence is sort of like an oxymoron.