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I don't think this is vague at all. Stop doing airstrikes on places that have civilians in them. Send in armed troops instead if shooting one or two Hamas assholes is so important to you, or just drop it and refocus on making your intelligence and security better so October 7 can't happen again, but either way dropping bombs on places with civilians is never acceptable. "But Hamas [whatever]" does not change that.
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Please, at least they have guns and armor and squad mates and medics and it's infantry v infantry for them, the poor civilian bastards have none of that and are facing a damn air force
It is vague.
Gaza is a city, not a country. Telling Israel not to strike where there are civilians is effectively the same as telling them not to fight back at all. Hamas operates from among the civilian population - often dressed as civilians themselves. They don't not-strike where there are civilians. It’s an enemy that doesn’t fight fair and deliberately exploits the rules of war for strategic advantage. They could relocate their civilian population into one part of the city and engage the IDF in another - but they don’t, and I’d argue that’s deliberate.
You don’t just “drop it” after 1,200 of your civilians have been brutally murdered.
So what should Hamas do in your ideal world? I am legitimately curious because you're kind of making an argument in favor of Hamas here, since Israel has killed, at the absolute lowest estimates, 20 times as many civilians as Hamas has. I am obviously not saying they should fight to the bitter end, just that this reasoning means that the fighting should never stop.
What should Hamas do? Deradicalize or die. Israel isn’t going anywhere - so either they both learn to live in peace, or they don’t live at all.
I’m not entirely sure what you’re asking here. I do sympathize with Hamas in the sense that they’re fighting a vastly superior enemy, and fighting fair would likely lead to their defeat. But deliberately sacrificing their own civilian population as martyrs and human shields doesn’t seem like the way forward either.
Will deradicalizing hamas stop israel occupaying palestine? The obvious answer is no.