(01-11-2024, 02:56 AM)captivating Wrote:

(01-03-2024, 11:26 PM)americus 2.0 Wrote: Hamas knew IDF would go Full Metal Jacket on Gaza. They counted on it. The optics of Israel bombing the nuts off of Gaza and killing a buttload of innocent people is priceless even if it's not working out the way Hamas intended. Israel had told Hamas if they attack, IDF would pretty much go scorched earth on them. Sadly, the collateral damage of death and displaced folks is the price the Palestinians pay for voting a terrorist organization into their government.

That's a pretty dark way of looking at it. Does that include kids who've never voted in their lives? Given the last election was in 2006, you'd have to be 35 or over to have ever voted for anyone in Gaza (and that's not even taking into account the 56% of Gazans who did vote in that election but didn't vote for Hamas).

You reap what you sow and unfortunately younger generations suffer for mistakes made by those who came before them, no matter the country they live in. 

At some point the Palestinians thought Hamas was a solution to their Jewish problem. Afghans thought the Taliban were a solution to their specific problem. Both countries allowed these terrorist organizations to come in and govern them and we see the results. 

Choices have consequences.

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