Hi
Atonement
Look, university sit-ins, walk-outs, gatherings for social causes has long been a thing now. But what a group of people, sitting comfortably here within the walls of their homes with no reasonably imminent threat of violence over their head, think about how such a situation as what's happened in Israel should be handled isn't of particular importance. Sure, they're allowed to voice their understanding of things. And it may well be that some group is encouraging these shows of support for the people of Gaza over the people of Israel. But a government is tasked with keeping its people safe and free from harm to the best of their ability to do so.
Let's consider that what happened in Israel on 10/7/23. A fairly well organized group of people went into an area of Israel and murdered by random shooting some over 100 people and wounded over 800. It was determined, and I don't think anyone is arguing the fact, that a militant Islamist group that is called Hamas was responsible for the training and set up of the attack. I mean, it isn't like just a couple of dozen folks attached to this group called Hamas just woke up one sunny day and said, "I think I'll take my weapon into Israel and kill people." This was a planned attack on a location that was known to be fairly well populated with targets and a group was called together to set up an attack of the location. How many days in advance was this group working on the mechanics of the attack, I don't think we yet know.
But, a government cannot allow something as horrific as this to go unpunished. When a band of militants come destroying people and property to the extent that this group did, even here in the states we'd have gone after the heart and soul of such a group of people. There are, and always have been, consequences for actions. I'm sure that if you were to ask every single one of those people that perpetrated the act, they'd all agree that they would expect Israel to fight back hard.
So they have, and until Israel is satisfied that they've rid the vermin from their midst, I wouldn't expect them to stop and you know that if it happened here and the U.S. government were to not counter such an attack that we'd be pretty upset with our government also. If the people and whatever government body they have that rules in Gaza really want Israel to back off, then all they need to do is join in their effort to get rid of any yeast of Hamas. Start turning in your neighbor that you know is a part of that group. Don't allow them to become a group with the ability to run training ops for such activities. Help Israel put them out of business so that they feel safe and Israel will likely relent from its continued rain of fire upon them.
But Israel has a goal. That goal is to rid any whiff of an organization such as Hamas from existing within such a close proximity to themselves. Until that goal is achieved, I wouldn't expect Israel to relent and I'm pretty sure that if the shoe were on our feet, we wouldn't either. I mean, we fought a war in Afghanistan for 20 years over some group of Islamist murderers that killed over 2,000 of our folks.
God bless,
Ted