Israel has struck back. Because when a terrorist group keeps firing rockets and sending murder squads, doing nothing isn’t restraint—it’s abdication. Hamas doesn’t fight like a conventional army; it fights like a disappearing act. Tunnels under cities, command nodes near hospitals and schools, munitions cached in civilian areas—every engagement is designed to booby-trap the moral scoreboard.
The result is a grimly predictable loop. Israel targets military infrastructure embedded among civilians. The footage is horrific—because urban warfare is horrific—and the outrage machine spins to full volume. Marches, hashtags, and think-pieces appear overnight, insisting there must be a magic alternative where terrorists are neutralised without anyone getting dust on their shoes.
Let’s be clear about aims. Israel’s objective is to degrade Hamas’s ability to attack: commanders, launchers, tunnels, stockpiles. Hamas’s objective is different: survive, rearm, and weaponise civilian suffering for propaganda value.One side is trying to end rocket fire; the other is trying to make sure every counter-strike looks like a crime scene on camera.
So yes—Israel is striking back. Not because it enjoys it, but because the alternative is waiting for the next “surprise”while commentators audition for sainthood on social media.
The ugly geometry is this: if you don’t hit Hamas, they keep hitting you; if you do hit Hamas, they hide behind civilians and the world cries “injustice”. That paradox isn’t an accident; it’s the strategy.
“We can forgive the Arabs for killing our children; we cannot forgive them for forcing us to kill their children.”
— Golda Meir (often attributed)
HAMAS is ISIS. Same playbook: massacre civilians, hide among civilians, then perform outrage when civilians are harmed. Different acronyms, identical contempt for human life.
Bottom line: Israel’s strikes are a response to ongoing attacks, and the optics are engineered to make self-defence look like aggression. That’s not a moral riddle; it’s a PR trap set by terrorists—and too many people keep stepping in it.