Scott Douglas Jacobsen: “Israeli airstrike on a Gaza school used as a shelter kills at least 80, Palestinian officials say” by Wafaa Shurafa and Samy Magdy. The Israeli military also acknowledged the strike. 

Rick Rosner: So, you can’t stop Israel from doing what it’s doing, no matter how many civilians they kill in their pursuit of Hamas, and also to keep Netanyahu in office. He won’t get kicked out of office as long as this continues.

The U.S. can withhold arms and aid, as has been done—Reagan did it in the 1980s, and Biden maybe temporarily did it for a few weeks or months, a couple of months ago. But Israel has enough weaponry; that’s not going to stop them from doing anything.

And Hamas is going to continue to hide among civilians. So Hamas is going to continue to be terrible and get their people killed. Israel is going to continue to blow up people as they please and kill civilians. Israel’s killed about 40,000 Palestinians. Maybe 20,000 of those are Hamas, and maybe 10,000 Hamas are left. Israel will continue to kill a bunch of civilians by way of killing Hamas. I hoped this would be over by now—it’s been ten months. Are they eventually going to kill people until they’re down to maybe 5,000 estimated Hamas left? And then 3,000? When are they going to stop? Because they can’t kill all of them. But they can probably keep killing Hamas and civilians for at least a few more months.

Will Israelis eventually get disgusted with the ratio of civilians to Hamas killed? Eventually, that ratio might increase as there are fewer and fewer Hamas. I don’t know. So, what else do you want me to say about it? 

Rick Rosner, American Comedy Writer, www.rickrosner.org

Scott Douglas Jacobsen, Independent Journalist, www.in-sightpublishing.com

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