The idea the attack on innocent civilians was justified in some way is bizarre. There is absolutely no justification for any of the vicious terrorist attack on innocent civilians. No justification at all.
The idea also that both sides need to end the violence is also bizarre. Israel has a right to domestic peace of which measure after measure was taken including Iron Dome to absolutely no avail killing some of the most dearest and pure hearted of Israeli citizens.
There is absolutely no doubt this was an attack on unarmed civilians by terrorists called Hamas.
There is no one more than me that wanted to see peace with Israel and the Palestinians. Most Americans, including Jewish Americans demanded over and over for decades for a Two State Solution. That solution had to include an understanding of the international religious understanding placed on these lands. Obviously now and painfully so, that peace would never be forthcoming.
Israel has a right to exist and have peace within its borders. That reality was rattled to the roots by this attack by Hamas. The truth of the religious intolerance is evident now. There is no diplomacy that can erase the truth telling of this attack upon innocent people.
Dear God open your eyes.
These young people, now dead, were magnificent. There was no expression of peace, kindness and inclusion greater than theirs that horrid night. Innocent people were gun down in their homes. They were slaughtered. There is no ignoring the facts.
If diplomatic relations are to return it will have to be with a Palestine Authority that condemns the violence and accept the fact Gaza will be a very different place without any power to Hamas. Hamas will be disarmed, disbanded and eliminated from any political standing. This will never happen again.
Everyone regardless of homeland should look forward to the day Israel needs no Iron Dome and a peaceful and prosperous Palestinian State exists as their homeland.
