They built 450 miles of tunnels under an area only 25 miles wide and have used them for decades to smuggle weapons and humans, and to launch terror attacks including 40,000+ actually indiscriminate rocket attacks, so many suicide bombings I cannot remember all of them, and now their latest, the largest mass shooting in world history.

It sucks that terrorists squandered all Gaza’s resources, corrupted every institution, and rejected democratic governance, so that they could go all in on international terrorism and build 450 mi. of tunnels under 210,000+ units of housing, under hospitals, schools, churches, etc., all filled with 70% women and children, who were forced or tricked by Hamas into ignoring evacuation orders and disregarding air strike warnings, to stay and die, so they could be proud, heroic Martyrs, for Hamas’s (read: Iran’s) cause, all while the men hide under ground with plenty of food and water, or go live in Qatar in extravagant wealth, a reward for all the Jews they’ve killed. That’s the reality of it.

Seven months to the day to get to 35,000 people. That’s 5,000 a month. How do you feel about that? Horrified and enraged, sad? Me too. That’s Hamas’s leadership at work. They could surrender tomorrow and stop the violence, but since they don’t give a single fuck about the lives of their own families, friends, and neighbors, they keep fighting. At a bare minimum, Hamas could follow a single international law, such as wearing uniforms. Hamas could stop giving pensions and bonuses (paid in Rial or Riyal) to Gazans who kill Israeli civilians. Merely saying that out loud in Gaza would be treated as infidelity to Islam, and punishable by death. That’s Hamas leadership at work.

As an aside, how would you feel about 35,000 people dying per day? It would be up to 900,000 by now. That’s what a war between Israel and Iran would look like and that’s a very conservative estimate. It might even be more like 35,000 per hour. God damn, imagine how sad you’d be then; seven months of daily horror and grief packed into just one hour, every hour.

No, I don’t support genocide. I support a course of action that preserves stability in the middle east and sets up governments capable of granting and preserving lasting human rights. And that means a future without Hamas. Israel’s strong alliance with the West pushes Israel toward more just and democratic ideals, and it stops Iran from waging a war that result in the greatest humanitarian catastrophe in world history, resulting from the cascade of failed states that would follow from the absolutely overwhelming number of war refugees who’d be fleeing the middle east to countries in North Africa and Eastern Europe. Don’t talk to me about protecting human life when yout want to end the thing that prevents all this, just to see revenge on Israel for a small town worth of people in collateral casualties. That’s some real smoothbrain foresight. I’m about protecting human life in the aggregate, and lasting human rights. That’s not ever going to come from governments which are based on mysticism and superstitious nonsense, subject to the whim of a few religious nutjobs.

I hope your government isn’t too busy mourning 35,000 people that they fail to protect the 35,000,000, or more. Mine isnt. 100,000,000 people live in Iran. 11,000,000 in Isael. Keeping that war from happening by any means is pretty important, if you are not just pretending to be concerned about human life.