brinstar wrote: i speak against the government of israel - not its people, not its faith - because although i do not find hamas to be innocent in the slightest, there is nothing even remotely resembling balance when the atrocities of each side are compared.
Let's skip everything leading up to this conflict because no one can change past. In this specific conflict:
Hamas kidnaps and murders 3 Israeli teenagers, Israeli military searches for them, arrests bunch of other people while they at it and kill few who try to fight them.(Hamas is wrong in killing kids, Israel is wrong in using excessive force.) Palestinians cheer the kidnapping and murder, spaming social media with pictures of 3 finger salute. Couple of Israeli extremists grab a Palestinian teenager and kill him in retaliation, they are quickly arrested.
Palestinians start mass riots, Israeli military stops them, people get hurt.
Hamas starts sending missiles into Israel, Israel retaliates and same thing that was happening in 2012 begins again. As last time Israel has strong defense and blocks majority of missiles so casualties are very much one sided.
Hamas unloads with new weapons they got from Iran during last cease fire and shells entire country of Israel, but majority of missiles are still stopped by Israeli Defenses.
Egypt brokers Cease Fire, Hamas rejects. Hamas sends team through tunnels to kidnap and kill civilians in nearby village but they are stopped.
Israel warns that if Hamas does not stop firing rockets they will go in with ground forces, Hamas ignores.
Israel goes in, since then 2 more cease fire attempts were refused by Hamas.
So now since you claim that Israeli government is evil, how would you stop this war?
This is how Arabs view Hamas now:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VtENBF_yjo