Captain Courage

[Leonardo17]

Also, it’s not like I approve of Israeli atrocities on Gazan territory or in the West Bank. We all see the decades long oppressive and expansionist policies of the Jewish State against Arabs in that region.

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And I’m going to refer you to a 2012 movie called “Inch’Allah” that is available with an affordable price tag on Google Play.

 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2336960/
 
The movie is about a Young and Attractive French-Canadian doctor who stays in West Jerusalem and works in East Jerusalem hospital. She is gradually getting under the influence of the tense situation in the region and ends up sympathizing with the Palestinians who are severely oppressed by the Israeli State.
 
Still, I cannot look at the people Hamas took as hostages this time and think that these guys are something other than terrorists.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/hamas-no-long...18423.html
 

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There is something called asymmetric warfare or Guerrilla warfare in which you use hit and run tactics and such to defy a much stronger opponent. In Central America for instance, guerrilla group are known to kidnap American tourists in order to extract ransom from their families. But who kidnaps children? (And/or very elderly people).
 
I’m asking this because hostage situations are known to be tough. These are traumatic experiences even for adults. Therefore putting little children and/or old people in this situation is definitely an act of Barbary. Meaning that there is rules to asymmetric warfare too. If you cross these lines, that makes you a terror organization.


So I would doubt the sincerity of any state or organization who fails to make this distinction right now.