That's a bit flippant given the loss of life involved, and it's not even an accurate summary of the evil that's playing out in Gaza.
Of course Hamas is the target, just as the Viet Cong was for the US Army. But the IDF, outdoing even the Americans in Vietnam, has prosecuted a campaign that they know can only result in massive civilian casualties. Contrary to your inference, they are not targeting anyone but Hamas. The disgusting part of it is that the directors of this campaign simply don't care how many innocent lives are lost for each enemy kill. This is the level of inhumanity that Netanyahu and his right-wing stringpullers have dragged Israel down to. (yeah, yeah, Israel was no saint before, but this is an imperfect world, and the choice everyone has is only to move toward good or evil - he chose evil).
This wanton destruction is the evil perpetrated by Netanyahu and Galant. This is why the ICC had issued warrants against them. But the ICC warrants are against them as individuals, for the actions they have carried out using the apparatus of the Israeli state; it is not a condemnation of Israel itself, just as the arrest of Slobodan Milosovic was not a charge against the state of Serbia. I am uncomfortable with the way some commentators lazily equate Netanyahu with Israel.
Or, to put it another way: I despise the current UK government; I do not despise the British people. When condemning the atrocities of the Israeli government, I am careful to put the blame where it lies: not on "Jews", not on "Israel" as a concept or a country, but the scum that has captured that state over the past two decades and used all its powers to oppose any peaceful resolution of this mess. I can't say I'm keen on the people who vote for Netanyahu and those further right of him, but I refuse to believe that Israel is the only place on earth where normally decent people can't be frightened into voting for the most disgusting of policies by a lying media.
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