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"All those innocent Germans! You can't bomb them for the decisions of Hitler (ignoring that like Hamas, Hitler was popularly elected)!"
Despite its enmity with Hamas, Israel has, over the years, viewed it as a useful counterweight to Fatah. The Israeli right, in particular, has viewed the bitter Hamas-Fatah rift as a guarantee that Palestinian leadership will never unite in support of a peace agreement, or even a unified front to demand Palestinian independence. https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-10-09/ty-article/.p...
Also, YES it is wrong to do collective punishment to civilians in retaliation for their political leadership. What the Allies did to Dresden is widely and rightly regarded as an atrocity: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/13/world/europe/dresden-germ...
* The nazis wanted a functioning society
* The nazi beliefs weren't based on religion
* The nazis weren't anti-science and made scientific progress
* The nazis were well dressed
I think that is the gist of it even if I probably could think of more points. Never thought that I was about to defend the nazis but honestly even if they were evil af Hamas and other groups are worse because I think it boils down to there is no logic behind any of their reasoning