Hamas Attacks Israel: 70 Israelis, 198 Palestinians Dead

[CJD]

Whether you think the attacks from Hamas are warranted or not, the one thing that was never in doubt was that this kind of attack was inevitable. You have two states that believe they have a claim to a section of land that holds significance to their people on a religious level. The more powerful/well funded/globally approved side of the conflict has been slowly confiscating land, taking away homes, imprisoning, beating, and killing thousands of people from the other side and those people, in their desperation, turned to a group of terrorists that...maybe care about them? But mostly hate the other group of people.

The Israeli government is not innocent. Neither is Hamas (obviously). The victims are the Palestinians who have been made refugees and prisoners in their own land as well as the innocent Israelis that will be killed because of the actions of the two governing bodies in this conflict that refuse to treat with each other and come to a peaceful resolution (likely because their conviction in this conflict is based entirely on religion which does not really have a strong basis in logic or pragmatism).

This entire situation is sad and pathetic and it's only getting worse because of the rigidity and hatred between the two groups of people, particularly the governing bodies.

Even with how tragic and scary these last few days are, we must not forget who the aggressors in this conflict are (or, at the least, the benefactors of the original aggressors). The only people who can stop this madness (aside from an outright extermination of the Palestinian people) reside in the government of Israel.

Unfortunately, I do not have faith that they'll suddenly decide to treat with Hamas, especially now. Unless there is a global intervention, I fear wide scale genocide may occur soon.