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Like common.
That's a rather strange way of describing evacuation zones which Israel announces to reduce civilian casualties.
> They made millions homeless.
When one starts a war, loses and then refuses to surrender or negotiate a peace deal...that's not exactly surprising.
I am in shock you wrote this.
I keep coming back to the first gulf war when Bush encouraged the Shiites to ride up against Hussain and then left them out to dry.
Its what gets done to the Palestinians over and over. And the Jews aren't the enemies you need them to be because if they were the Palestinians would have been long scattered.
You're shocked I'm against killing civilians?
Those who want civilian casualties are terrorist organizations like Hamas.[0]
[0] https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/11/middleeast/sinwar-hamas-israe...
Civilian deaths are in line with what would be expected for urban warfare with the enemy hiding amongst the civilian population. Obviously creating civilian deaths is part of the Hamas strategy.
Israel started that war, not civilians. I hope you are not suggesting what it implies.
Evacuation zones are meant to minimize civilian casualties.
> Israel started that war, not civilians.
Which war are you referring to? Hamas started the war in Gaza and Hezbollah started the war in Lebanon.
In Gaza they literally pulverized entire cities [1], making them uninhabitable, this isn't even really a war on terror by the western mainstream's standards, its a war on concrete paid for with american tax payer bombs and bulldozers. They are replicating that same exact playbook in Lebanon right now [2]. How morally bankrupt or completely misinformed do you have to be, to support this absolute barbarism at this point.
[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-217c6a28-4a90-4d47-...
[2] https://edition.cnn.com/2026/04/24/middleeast/lebanon-destru...
Obviously if there are terrorist attacks coming from a neighboring country then one would expect retaliation. You seem to be arguing terrorist attacks don't justify a response.
> In Gaza they literally pulverized entire cities [1], making them uninhabitable
That's not unexpected when there are military tunnels under the cities. How else could they be eliminated?
> this isn't even really a war on terror by the western mainstream's standards
The western war on terror also had plenty of casualties.[0]
Brilliant, any underground structure becomes a "terror tunnel", its wonderful you can level whole neighborhoods and afterwards claim it was justified because there were tunnels there. If that were true we would see gaps in the destruction in the satellite imagery wouldn't we? Or where they digging tunnels in grid patterns to every house in every neighborhood and under every street? What total moral bankruptcy to just blanked declare every civilian home and infrastructure as justifiable targets.
Anyway if we want Israel talking points uncritically parroted we can just read literally any newspaper so spare us your breath.
Tunnels were used by Hamas to move between buildings AFAIU, so large amounts of buildings would have tunnels under them, not to mention many buildings were booby trapped with explosives by Hamas so clearing the explosives often would result in the destruction of buildings as well.
> What total moral bankruptcy to just blanked declare every civilian home and infrastructure as justifiable targets.
If they get used for military purposes then they become military targets is my understanding of how the rules of war generally work.
I'm aware the status of Gaza is somewhat complicated.
> Not that it's the same country
Its status as a country at all is also not very clear due to only partial international recognition.
> would require Israel to give it's citizens voting rights
I don't think Israel is very likely to give citizenship to a group of people when the majority of those people don't think Israel should even exist.
> it's rights as an independent nation
They did try moving in that direction, with disengagement in Gaza, but it clearly didn't work out.
I'm not really sure what the best approach to the problem is right now, but presumably de-radicalization of some form is going to be needed for the Palestinians due to UNRWA schools and others teaching children terrorist propaganda, and that's happening even in the more moderate PA controlled areas.