Israel launches major offensive in Gaza after airstrikes that killed more than 100

[Beastly Boy]

114. Or something.

Maybe you mis-wrote something. But I clearly remember that you faulted the hostages for providing a pretext for Netanyahu to start a war. Surely you didn't mean that the hostages made themselves available to Hamas so Hetanyahu can start a war. Perhaps you should have said that the terrorists, by the virtue of taking hostages, provided that pretext. That would have been more accurate, but not entirely. Because the terrorists also invaded a sovereign state, murdered, raped and tortures a thousand of Israelis, all before the hostages were in the position to provide pretext for anything to anyone.

And that is not pretext, you must correct yourself, that's casus belli, a legitimate reason to declare war, sans any hidden goals. And it's not hostages who created it, it's the de facto rulers of Gaza who did, pardon my Latin.

Unlike your adamant insistence on some hidden plot, there is nothing hidden about it. It's all out in the open. Nothing to speculate about, and "obviously" that was no PR. The murderers themselves gleefully recorded their crimes and plastered the recordings all over social media. By no sane definition does this contain any hidden plot. So I am at a complete loss why this rather well documented atrocity made you wonder about denying reality on anyone's part but your own.

You either accept this reality or you don't. If you don't, any further speculations you may volunteer lose their grounds in reality.