Here is my question and comment if anyone is interested.
Given your background as a military person, I would assume you feel there is a strategy in endlessly arming Israel. Can you please explain how killing 25 times the number of people as were killed in the Hamas attack in order to end Hamas and destroying any chance of returning to a meagre normal for the other 2 million people will end the ideology, trauma, and living conditions that created Hamas in the first place?
As an American Jew who has been following the oppression and encroachment on the Palestinian people, I was not surprised by the Hamas attack in Israel. Whether people are killed in smaller amounts over the years or if they are killed all at once in a strategic paramilitary raid, it has been apparent that there is a war going on in Israel/Palestine for decades. I do not approve of military "solutions" pretty much any time so I don't approve of Hamas. However, in retrospect, it appears that Hamas knows their enemy well and is right about them. Israel has proven that they are the monster that Hamas has described them to be. Now the world sees that and they see my country aiding the monster. You are aiding the monster. Speaking from a purely nationalistic and strategic point of view, this is not good for America and it is your job to do what is good for America. Speaking as a person, a Jew, this is breaking my heart.
CARY KITTNER