That's kinda my thought. The Islamic resistance trades hostages for the time and space required to reconstitute.

What seems a bit encouraging is the comments by the Palestinians who are returning to their destroyed houses and wondering why it all happened. Sure, the Islamic leaders now have more street cred while they're snorting coke off the asses of European hookers in Dubai, but I'm not sure that the narrative is going to hold that this whole Hamas campaign was being conducted for the benefit of Palestinians.

"If the Palestinians actually want to resolve this once and for all they should bury the hatchet and forgive the Israelis."

Forgive them???

For what?

Palestine is not a real thing. It never has been.

Maybe I'm wrong, but has there ever been a Republic of Palestine? A Kingdom of Palestine? Even an Emirate of Palestine?

No. The land was owned by Ottomans who lived in Turkey.

The closest that Palestine ever came to being a real thing was in 1948, and the so-called Palestinians rejected it.

Palestinians need to understand this, but they've been fed a narrative where they are entitled to something they had no part in creating. Progressivism at its finest.

"That's like Vlad was engaging in legal bombing of civilian targets as he invaded."

We can never know for sure, but I do think that Russia is largely following LOAC principles. The problem is, Russia is about where the US was in Desert Storm technology-wise. They do have some precision weapons, but they are limited, and not very accurate. When I was flying, I could drop a low-collateral bomb on the top of a house to take out a sniper while causing minimal damage to the house and everything in it. That was the standard. Russia does not have that capability.

"Only Palestine is actually an Occupied People fighting a clear Oppressor."

I would say the opposite is true. I don't think the average Israeli is hoping for the extirpation of Palestinians in the region. The Palestinians are devoted to the destruction of the Jews.

"The Israelis have been living in a walled in territory under constant occupation by Palestinians who neglect, abuse, kidnapping and kill them, constantly, since the country of Palestine was established by England and America?"

Yeah...that's sorta the thing. The Brits intended for their to be a Palestinian state alongside the Jewish state. That's something the Palestinians and their Arab allies could accept no more than the National Socialists did.

And yes, the Palestinians are constantly abusing, kidnapping, and killing Israeli citizens. They love that ----.

And the Palestinians rely on people like you to defend their atrocities.