Thank you for a thoughtful response and not the usual one-sided vitriol I get :).

So I will follow up cogently as well. I agree it is a lose-lose-lose situation. Lose for Israel, lose for Palestinians, lose for the greater MENA region.

What concerns me is that I don't think anybody knows what to do or how this will play out... Just today we hear that IS detonated two massive bombs in Iran killing over 100 and injuring another 250... How does this affect things? Who knows...

I do not see "Peace" on the horizon, but I do think there is a pathway toward begrudging coexistence... But that will require concessions from both sides, which means the narrative of both sides needs to be respected. Yes Palestinians are suffering. But yes, Israelis have suffered as well. Yes Israel has crossed the line with militancy. But yes, Jihadi extremism (in the form of Hamas) has *definitely* crossed lines to. (Just a reminder to readers who so quickly forget, Hamas committed a massacre, utilized mass rape as a method of war and kidnapped children, which triggered this whole thing).

What I am see mostly online (in that hate-filled cesspool called X and Tiktok) is just one-sided hatred, which only breeds more hatred and only entrenches both sides against each other.