So what's the alternative? Not pressure Hamas with rockets to free the hostages is probably not an option because of how diabolically they planned their bases of operations next to hospitals, schools or inside civilian buildings.

So Israel should try to go in with the army on foot and evacuate building by building by force? Sure that will be no problem especially given that Hamas will 100% pose as civilians during those raids and attack Israel from behind with all the tunnels underneath Gaza - so every soldier there would be extremely paranoid - no way that can go wrong.

Not doing anything and letting Hamas take hostages and kill thousands is not an option either - so calling for evacuation and then targeting legitimate targets by international law is the correct course of action even though I agree that it's an extremely shitty situation for the civilians there.

At least the civilians killed by Israel are killed by accident and not fully intentional like Hamas is doing.

Everyone can agree that the civilians in Gaza are the poorest party in this but imho people fail to grasp the situation from different viewpoints and see it for how complex it is.

Thanks for the headsup on the dead link. I've replaced it with an archived link.

Obviously I'm not going to argue the US isn't hypocritical in its dealings with Qatar. You can also look forward to Europe doing exactly nothing, because they rely on Qatari gas.

But if you think it's damning that Qatar has close ties to the US, you should probably read this:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2014/07/30/how-israel-helped-create-hamas

That's the thing with people who spread pro-Islamist coverage, including stuff from al-Jazeera.

For years Hamas was supported by key players in Israel. A strong Hamas helped to sow division in the Palestinian cause, undermining the two state solution. People who support Hamas, and/or push pro-Islamist media, are arguably helping support the continued oppression of the Palestinian people.

Netenyahu and the Jewish supremacists in his government, certainly weren't too dissapointed by this recent Hamas attack. They have their excuse now. Thanks to Hamas and media like Al-Jazeera who support them.

Quatar is a key partner because they have a position that allows for negotiations and are not as fundamentally extremist as many other countries in the region

Hamas leaders are living in quatar though without Quatar having any problem with that - they are basically Switzerland in the middle east.

And Al-Jazeera reported stuff directly from official sources from Palestine which happened to be exaggerated Hamas propaganda all the time - I'd say it's a bit less one-sided than RT since they usually include other views as well but it's still extremely biased reporting for issues regarding the conflict