By "their making" you mean Israel? So you are blaming Israel for Gaza's slums and for them having no where to go. Israel withdrew from Gaza in 2005, which included the army forcefully removing settlers. There were elections which Hamas won. That was the last election they allowed and they killed off all opponents including the Palestinian Authority. The billions in aid that they received over the years was not used to improve the condition of the people but rather to build up weaponry. They of course rule with an iron hand with the people having little or no means to protest. As for having somewhere to go, Hamas itself has blocked people from fleeing areas of fighting. I'm not saying Israel is perfect, no nation is, but you seem to want to put all blame on Israel whereas Hamas could have done so much more over the years to alleviate the condition in Gaza.
And your response to my question of what you think Israel should do to stop rocket fire into its civilian areas is your "way out." A way out of what? Conflict with Hamas? If Israel stopped all actions do you think Hamas would also? They have already vowed to take any opportunity to repeat the horrific events of Oct. 7. It's not fighting for a two state solution or even seems to be very concerned about the condition of Gazans. It's a movement driven by a fanatical religious goal of cleansing the region of Jews, Christians and any other infidels. So you have still failed to provide any practical alternative for Israel other than to allow its citizens to continue to be killed.
What an astonishingly inappropriate analogy to make. I don't think Jewish militias committed the horrific acts that Hamas did on Oct. 7. I don't think Jews were firing thousands of rockets into German cities or calling for the eradication of Germany.
Of course war is monstrous. Killing is monstrous. Israel didn't start this one, Hamas did. I simply don't agree with your lowering of expectations when it comes to Hamas and raising of same with Israel. All your writing is about what Israel should stop doing but nothing about what Hamas should stop. How about stopping launching rockets into Israel and releasing the hostages? How about surrendering and ending the conflict that it is highly unlikely to win?
And now I think we have come to the crux of our disagreement. I assume you are well-meaning but you may not be aware of the history of the region if you are focused just on the past 40 years. The fact is that Arabs attacked historically Jewish towns in the region as far back as the late 19th century and early 20th century. For instance, from Wikipedia:
The Hebron massacre was the killing of sixty-seven or sixty-nine Jews on 24 August 1929 in Hebron, then part of Mandatory Palestine, by Arabs incited to violence by rumors that Jews were planning to seize control of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. The event also left scores seriously wounded or maimed. Jewish homes were pillaged and synagogues were ransacked.
Note that this was before any occupation, settlements or even the existence of the state of Israel. Those excuses were not needed. And after Israel was established hundreds of thousands of Jews were expelled from Arab nations where they had lived for centuries, with the result that there are literally a handful left in each of them, i.e. ethnic cleansing on a large scale.
What's my point? You want to blame Israel for just about everything wrong in the region and view the Palestinians as mere victims. Palestinian excesses are explained, if not justified, by Israel's actions but despite decades of Arab violence against Jews, especially the events of Oct. 7, Israel is supposed to play nice. You have expectations for Israel in war that no other nation in the world would follow.
