I have pretty much stayed out of the thread crystal107 but what you are presently demonstrating is pretty classic victim mentality (to summarise it badly "everybody is out to get you"/"you are all alone in the world which is hostile to you" to the point of ignoring reason that might say otherwise) and worse you are conflating it with that of the mentality of your entire nation which is probably about as infuriating for people to deal with as you claim to be finding some of the others in this thread.
In general the use of conventional military force is looked upon very negatively where there were the potential for other options (be it negotiations or specialist warfare and similar such things- all of which Israel has demonstrated an astounding capability in over the past few decades- if the whole Mahmoud al Mabhouh thing is considered a screw up I can only wish half my screw ups worked that well) and many still see options for said alternatives there. By the same logic random/untargeted attacks on civilian populations are also to be looked upon highly negatively, where it gets tricky (and I certainly do not hold to this view at present) is that if various groups in Palestine wish to self identify as a state of some form (and there is a historical, theological, political and geographical precedent for it) the old adage "one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter" comes into play and when coupled with said groups being faced with an overwhelmingly superior military force many thousands of years of combat says "use specialist warfare" (again though random civilian targets is not really specialist warfare as much as it is dick move).
I doubt anybody would disagree that the bulk of humanity (various philosophies and religions would promote a lack of escalation or indeed pacifism but those that practice such things are fairly few in number) would find self defence agreeable, however the line between self defence and a provoked measure (and some, indeed several in this very thread, contend some of the sanctions imposed and actions taken could count as a proper provocation) is perhaps not entirely clear in this situation.
In short what you are deeming a clear cut binary division is anything but to the impartial observer and as others you have championed have said "we are not there (and moreover we have nothing beyond a like of humanity invested in such situations)" which basic logic would say allows us to very much be impartial observers where you yourself would have to try very hard to be.
Well, it seems like most people here are clueless about what's really happening and all you got is info from media, and ignoring any info that comes from Israel, cause what , it tries to defend itself?
In 2001, my father, who is a bus driver, had a terrorist on his bus, blowing it up, and he was hospitalized for half a year, it's a miracle he didn't die.
Now, you can blame Israel for attacking civilians, but as you can see, Hamas doesn't really care about civilians either, when they got a military force to fight, same time putting rocket launcher at school and hospitals so we have to go underground to catch them.
This may sound cruel, but I wish your fathers died from a terrorist attack to understand there's no one here to negotiate with.
But here you are, sitting at the comfort of your home, under no war, judging Israel for protecting itself from terrorists, while it could be you sitting here and be on the bus that blew up today by a terrorist
yes, a bus. not our military force... a BUS, with innocent civilians that had nothing to do with this war. Not because there was a rocket launcher in the bus... not because there was someone specific they wanted in the bus... just to scare. hence, the name, terrorists.
You are welcome to explain why those poor souls you are defending, are killing civilians, be it women, children, men, when they got a military force to fight? think they don't got the weapons for it? well they definitely got bombs! but it's easier to kill unarmed people, they are all jews after all, so it doesn't matter if you kill a military man or a child. the sad truth is, there is hatred and there was always hatred towards jews, there is clear evidence for that, you can go ahead and say we got victim mentality, but we got facts to back it up.
