Polling?? Are you kidding. Polling to support genocide. How many IDF officers were “on break” during the 8 hour stand down during October 7? How many Israelis were charged and convicted for the intentional attack on the USS Liberty in 1967 that killed most of the crew, but helped get the US to support the Israeli war with Egypt.
Polling. Disgusting.
With all that OUR gov’t has been up to, the Israelis may have had good reason to go after the Liberty. Or it could’ve been an error. Or it could’ve been deliberate malice. We’ll never know. But one wrong doesn’t make any other wrong right.
Hamas has been attacking Israel for years, in small ways & large. The situation is now intolerable. As another poster pointed out, they use their own people as human shields. When fighting a ruthless opponent you must be ruthless also. Too bad if innocents suffer in this war, but there aren’t that many innocents in Gaza.
As for the apparent stand-down on Oct 7? It’s been pretty well established that the head of the IDF a) hated Netanyahu; b) had been informed of suspicious goings on in Gaza; c) failed to inform Netanyahu of those the activity; & d) did not prepare his people for the possibility of an attack. He holds the responsibility for what happened. It was, after all, a Jewish holiday. Which again shows the evil of Hamas as they pick such days to conduct their operations.