No more war?

Israeli army spokesperson Peter Lerner is on This Week, being asked about the number of Palestinians said (by Hamas) to have been killed in the rescue of Israeli hostages from a residential area of Gaza.

OK, now I understand why the Biden administration won't try to rescue US hostages held prisoner by Hamas .... they don't want to harm any Palestinians. Memo to American hostages in Gaza: you are on your own. Or, in an even more disturbing turn of events: Biden admin has discussed potentially negotiating unilateral deal with Hamas to free U.S. hostages.

It is absurd to expect a hostage rescue mission in an active war zone full of civilians and also bad guys to have no collateral damage. Nobody wants civilian deaths, but the logical aternative is that no hostage missions will ever be attempted. In fact, no country would be allowed to fight even a "just" war.

When Hamas kidnapped over 200 Israelis, they knew the IDF would come looking for them. And knowing this, they put these hostages in apartments with families in a crowded civilian area. Hamas killed those Gazan civilians. And Hamas has managed at the same time to make the world hate the Israelis for sucessfully saving their citizens.