Enjoyed your write up and don’t know much history at all on this topic so I have no real opinion, but maybe the US is going with the which country/government is worst for me so they side with Israel by default?
It doesn’t sound like there’s much government/structure in Gaza other than Hamas which I suppose the US doesn’t like. Makes it hard to take “the other side”.
In terms of civilians, all war is pretty bad and there are a lot of innocent casualties, but does this also have a little to do with possible terrorists hiding in said safe place? If you, as a criminal know that you won’t get bombed in a school, you’ll just surround yourself with kids/schools, etc…all the time and run your operation from there…
Not that I’m saying it’s ok to bomb kids, but if a terrorist is shooting rockets at me from a school, I believe I’d fired right back at the school as well.
Ultimately, it goes back to my belief that 1 life you know (say your child, your wife, etc…) is worth more than a billion in some other country you don’t know or care about.
