Israel's response

 Israel needs to be very careful of how they react to Hamas's act of evil.

You do not engage in acts of evil merely because they did. Israel needs to be seen to be engaging in bringing those on Hamas responsible for the vile murders they committed to justice. If they kill ordinary Palestinians simply because they are Palestinians they will lose most of the sympathy they have garnered thus far. It will also mean no political solution. No political solution means no solution at all.

 Israel cannot let themselves simply come down to the level of hamas so there isl ittle difference between them. Perhaps they should cogitate on how important jewish terrorist groups were in forming the State of Israel!

If Gaza loses all water and electricity it means living in Gaza will become inhabitable!

This has  implications for the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Once Ukraine gains proper weapons of combat and IF Israel goes over the top and few Western nations disapprove then Ukraine will think they will do to Russia what Russia has done to them. This would mean there is little difference betwen to the two nations. This is what revenge usually means. 

The Western world should say Israel is a country that will always exist. It is a democracy at present although the present government wants to change that somewhat. A Western country is a civilised country who do not kill civilians. As long as Israel stays with that we can support them  morally and otherwise.

The attack by Hamas has undoubtedly three by-products so to speak.

1. the link with the Yom Kippur war where then too Israel was vastly over-rated and a major intelligence failure. People also forget the rise in oil prices by OPEC was related to the USA giving Israel intelligence  garnered from satellites that gave them victory
2. It stops any recognition of Israel by Saudi Arabia.
3. It believes Israel will over-react and this garner support from many countries. Please note this comes from innocent Palestinians being killed. this shows how much Hamas care about their countrymen and women.

As I implied yesterday I know the solution to the problem but have no idea of how to get there.

I should add two further points.

• It matters not whether you believe Israel should have been created. In my view any time you get a jewish, islamic or any other state people who are not of that religion or ethnicity are de facto second class citizens and we can see that around the world. Israel was created and is a country. It will not be uncreated. It cannot be threatened as it has over 200 nukes so if you do not like Israel tough!
• I am somewhat bemused when some Jews or so-called evangelicals say God gave that land to the Jews. It takes little reading of either the Hebrew bible or the Bible to find out most Jews (and Israelites before them) were not believers. Only a remnant were. It is one of the reasons why Babylon was allowed to destroy Jerusalem. Modern day Jews are not believers. They do not even believe in original sin. They have no entry in Heaven as they do not recognise Jesus.