What is going to happen to the 2 million people who cannot escape Gaza in 5 days?

[Dorian Gray]

235. There has not been a vote

since 2006. So Hamas is keeping itself in power through non-democratic means.

It's easier to do when you keep a population poor and downtrodden and have your neighbors to blame for their every single woe.

This situation is beyond complicated, and I do not relish what is coming to Gaza. There are definitely innocent people there. Put they are pawns that Hamas is okay using in order to engender more anger at the Israeli people, and Israel has the right to defend itself after an attack like this.

A long history of hatred is difficult to overcome. We are seeing that play out now. I pray that the response is just and that no innocent people are harmed. I know that won't be true, so I mourn for them. Just as I mourn for all the innocent people harmed this past weekend in Israel.

But Hamas, as an organization, needs to be dealt a death blow. You can't make peace with a group who planned and orchestrated what happened this past weekend. It's evil.

(And too all those claiming it was JUSTIFIED bc of past actions... NO! You are wrong and justifying the face of evil.).