The Gaza Strip is a humanitarian crime somewhere on the spectrum with the US tribal reservations and the Warsaw ghettos. The solution to terrorism is to stop forcing people from their homes, stop preventing them from developing independent utilities, stop cutting them off from trade, and in general stop treating them as second class citizens in their own homeland. October 7th was the inevitable tragic blowback following decades of abuse.

There is no moral or rational supremacy in victory through violence. Your analysis collectivizes innocent people with criminals, and your calls for total war are not courage or strength, but true cowardice and hatred.

If all Israelis cannot be held accountable for the actions of the government of Israel in spite of universal conscription and an active democracy, then it is downright absurd to insist all Palestinians but be punished for the actions of a terrorist organization without even a veneer of political legitimacy. Remember, the Palestinians were there first, and the militant wing of Zionists invaded them. The conflict is not Arab versus Jew, or Muslim versus Jew, it is between an indigenous people and a foreign occupier.

Christmas is about celebrating the Prince of Peace. Your rhetoric indicates you worship Mars instead. We can't continue the cycle of destruction.