If you were taken a hostage by terrorists, the government is trying to free you, would you prefer them to:

- kill the terrorists and you OR

- stay with the terrorists until the government figures out a peaceful way to free you first before attempting to kill the terrorists?

Another Q: If you were living in a certain city, they found out that there are terrorists around your house, maybe they dug a tunnel close to you, would you prefer:

- the army carpet bombing the area?

- the army attempty by other means to get rid of the terrorists?

* A hypothetical questions, not wishing you any harm

See this is exactly the extreme war hungry rhetoric i'm frightened by.

Looking at historical context, calling for thinking before acting, looking at both sides, is not being a "useful" idiot.

Especially when Israel has killed a hundredfold more palestinians over the span of decades and Israel itself helped create Hamas through these extremely violent hardliner measures:

https://theintercept.com/2018/02/19/hamas-israel-palestine-c...

I say we stop blood dripping revenge, we've already stuffed a million people into a concentration camp and effectively carpet bombed them for years, with lots of civilian casualties besides the Hamas that we can all agree to condemn.