I should write an entire piece about this, but I am preoccupied with other (equally weighty) matters right now, so this will have to suffice.

Hamas is not a monolith. It is municipal government, with all that entails. Plus it is the Al Qassam brigades. The latter are terrorists; the former are bureaucrats. The latter planned and executed the October 7th attack; the former was kept totally in the dark.

A smarter Israeli leadership would have declared war on the latter and appealed to the former to help it minimize civilian casualties -- and would have invested in and planned thoroughly a "welfare" complement to the "warfare", prior to counterattacking.

The 40,000 tents Israel is reported to be pruchasing prior to the Rafah onslaught, it too little, too late. Just as the now daily US airdrops (which I called for in early December) are too little, too late. Maybe they are better than nothing -- some lives will be spared -- but this will not slack the anger that must burn so hotly now in the hearts of milliions of Palestinians. (Note, I say "anger" not "hatred". An argument can be made that "hatred" is never justified and unhealthy; but "anger" is a healthy response to a great injustice.)