>But what effect does firing rockets - or, for that matter, massacring a thousand civilians in their homes - actually has on the outcome of this conflict? Why

>But what effect does firing rockets - or, for that matter, massacring a thousand civilians in their homes - actually has on the outcome of this conflict? Why do you feel the need to lie about what happened if you're convinced about what you are saying? They did certainly not massacre a thousand civilians in "their homes"(stolen land & homes of Palestinians living next to their concentration camps). IDF soliders are not civilians, reservists who are armed and ready to fight are not civilians, settlers who engage in belligerent occupation are not civilians. If you subtract all of these legitimate military targets including those who were killed by the IDF itself, you have the clear evidence that a bunch of resistance fighters have an infinitely better ratio than the Israel which is on trial for having committed genocide. >It's one thing to justify something as military necessity, but it's hard to see any in Hamas' actions. You say that unironically about khamas, but don't apply the same criticism of Israel, who engaged in barbarism and the kind of evil that makes hamas look like angels in comparison. What "military necessity" was there for israel to murder 14k children and starve them to death? > It certainly doesn't get them any closer to getting what they want. The world has now woken up to Israel's evil and most people recognize it for what it is, a genocidal apartheid ethno-state hellbent on destroying the natives by any means. Zionists have lost control of the narrative, so I'd say that does indeed get the resistance somewhat closer to getting what they want. >Furthermore, realistically, the best that Palestinians can hope for is some form of two-state solutions - "from the river to the sea" is not going to happen. Speculative, dismissed. Israel is a paper tiger, so I'd say there is a very realistic chance of "from the river to the sea" happening. >But it's that much harder to argue for a Palestinian state if Hamas are the ones running it, given the kind of governance they have demonstrated internally, and the kind of brutality we've seen on Oct 7. So let me get this straight: After a single day of inflicting on the brutal settler colonialists a fraction of the pain which Israel has been inflicting on Palestinians for 75+ years, you claim "it's hard to argue for a Palestinians state" but you see no problem in granting that to Israel!? You are NOT a serious person.