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At least on the Israeli side, this is wrong. An enormous majority of people are convinced that the war is justified. 1200 dead; that would be the equivalent of 40,000 Americans. 240 kidnapped, with 137 still there. Hamas have proven their capabilities and determination. And then they say[1] that they intend to do it again. When someone tells you that they want you annihilated, and intend to attack you, believe them.

[1] https://www.memri.org/tv/hamas-official-ghazi-hamad-we-will-...

>>underd+(OP)
Of course they're convinced. They had their 11S to convince them of attacking a dense city full of people. The fifth military budget in the world by GDP wasn't able to detect a breach in a hyper secured wall with 24/7 cameras and reacted several hours later killing a lot of his own people. We need to carefully review and research the facts because this seems a reverse false flag event. A desired event for zionists in order to justify carpet-bombing a city to kill, displace and clear the zone for future settlers.

>>underd+(OP)
Even assuming that's true and 100% accurate: shitloads of Americans after we watched three thousand people die on television were convinced that the best course of action was to "liberate" Afghanistan and Iraq, yet another set of quagmire armed conflicts that accomplished exactly nothing apart from destabilizing one state, destroying another, getting tens of thousands of American service people killed, and hundreds of thousands if not millions of Arab civilians killed, not to mention the incalculable damage to the economic prospects of two large middle eastern countries, the damage to their cultures, the damage to America in particular and the West in general's perception on the global stage, and the not only NOT VANQUISHED but in fact FRESHLY RE-ARMED Taliban! The fucking people we supposedly went there to eliminate in the first damn place, are now cruising around in American Humvees and capturing our assets that were left behind after the pull out.

And we DIDN'T EVEN GET BIN LADEN THERE. We captured him years after entering the region, in PAKISTAN, a FRIENDLY state, with a single company of marines. No invasion required, no massive civilian casualties, and to my knowledge, we didn't give any terrorist groups a fresh fleet of well maintained vehicles either during that particular one.

Like, at this point, if you still believe that the answer to these terrorist organizations is force, then you really need to bring some evidence to the table, because every time we go to places we are not wanted, and inflict our will upon people who do not want us there with fire and fury, we leave a decade later with an entire city's worth of PTSD afflicted soldiers, leaving behind billions of dollars in military assets, and accomplishing exactly nothing but giving the war profiteering class a fresh infusion of cash.

>>aldelu+pb
If you think jews "desire" to be slaughtered I have nothing to say to you.