This was written by someone, not me. But sums it up pretty well, what was she thinking? I’m a mother, so I’m going to comment right now. I will say this exactly the way a mother thinks it, raw, direct, and without pretending this is complicated. A 37-year-old woman. Three kids. Middle of a work week. The father of those children is dead. She is the parent left. The one job she has above every cause, every protest, every headline, is getting home to her kids. And what is she doing instead? She’s out of state (other reports claim she lives there), in the street, in her car, blocking federal agents who are doing their job. Not alone! Her partner is right there filming her like this is some brave little documentary moment. Around them: sirens blaring, people yelling, pure chaos, manufactured chaos, so agents can’t do their lawful duty. Her window is down. She hears the orders. She understands the orders. She ignores the orders. Then she puts the car in reverse. Still doesn’t comply. Then she puts it in drive, NOT park! She moves forward into the agent. That’s not “confusion.” That’s not “panic.” That’s decision after decision after decision. Now put yourself in the agent’s shoes for half a second. A driver is already in an unlawful act! refusing commands in a hostile, chaotic scene, and now that driver uses a vehicle to move toward you. You get a split second. You don’t get the luxury of “Maybe she’s just stressed.” You have to assume the worst, you have to think of protecting other people like the partner at the window, because if you assume the best and you’re wrong, you don’t go home or someone else. So the agent fires after she makes an intentional and aggressive move toward him, because he has no idea what her intentions are, and she just demonstrated she’s willing to escalate. Now… imagine her three kids. At school. Sitting there like any other day. Not knowing their mother is out playing street-hero games for criminals in the middle of a work week, with the two adults responsible for them! She didn’t think about them. She didn’t think, “If I get arrested, who picks my babies up?” She didn’t think, “If I get hurt, who raises them?” She didn’t think, “If I die, they have nobody.” She thought about protecting criminals. She thought about interfering with federal agents. She thought about the camera. She thought about the crowd. She thought about the moment. There is no amount of evidence, money, tears on TV, or news spin that can make this make sense. As a mother: NOTHING about this makes sense. At minimum, she knew her actions could get her arrested. At minimum. And she still chose it. She chose strangers. She chose chaos. She chose lawlessness. Make it make sense, because the only thing I see is three kids who just got abandoned by the only parent they had left, not by accident… but by a series of deliberate choices.

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A lot of people say this because it's really easy and "powerful" to say while taking the situation completely out of its own context. The context provides that nearly every child who died in Gaza as a result of military action by Israel was killed by Hamas, not Israel. The simple fact, as David is ultimately replying to here, is that Hamas and the Gazans created a deliberately impossible situation for the Israelis by being willing to use, and using, human shields, including children, who sometimes became casualties despite Israel's absolutely best efforts to avoid any such outcome. Hamas did this in Gaza for the same two reasons I outlined in the original post: (1) to create a deterrence against Israel striking back against their military installations while they, themselves, continued military operations against Israel, including innocent civilians, by committing war crimes by using innocents, children, babies, hostages, schools, hospitals, UN "peacekeeping" installations, and houses of worship (including mosques and churches) as shields for their military operations. We just saw a viral video, in fact, of a child carrying weapons for an adult so that Israel could not stop the weapons transfer (and didn't). Hamas put those children up to that and thereby put their lives at risk, sometimes mortally. (2) to create propaganda that David here is pushing about the evils of war and war casualties, which include some children who were put by Hamas into the path of danger, not taken out of it, and who lost their lives as a result. That is, Hamas used the lives of children specifically as an opportunity to produce the propaganda that David is eagerly repeating. It's almost impossible to understand how sick these actions are by Hamas. They are, in fact, heinous war crimes that only evade prosecution because of the unbelievable moral inversion of almost everyone who contacts this issue and its grotesque propaganda. Basically, it is simply so evil that normal people cannot believe that Hamas and the Gazans would do it, so they don't. Well, that and wanting to keep certain moneys flowing, probably. So, while nobody is advocating for the killing of kids, as in literally nobody, Hamas is arranging directly for the killing of kids, even as Israel takes incredible pains to avoid doing it, even when the kids are made the mules and actors for military engagement against them. Again, the restraint shown by Israel is perhaps unique in the history of warfare and should be regarded with awe and some degree of reverence, so it is, of course, inverted by this evil propaganda. Shame on you, Dave, for your willing participation in it. Maybe you don't understand the pains Israel has taken to avoid creating such casualties. Aside from sending aid to Gaza even while they were at war with it--aid which Hamas stole and withheld mostly to increase the suffering and radicalization of their own people and to produce more evil propaganda about conditions--Israel has repeatedly demonstrated its unwillingness to target children, particularly ones who aren't pointing guns at them screaming for their deaths. See, Hamas radicalizes children to be militants as well. I don't believe the children understand what they are doing, but the weapons they fire and bullets that come from them don't care that a child pulled the trigger and kill their targets just the same. Israelis have died for holding to this principle, whatever your propaganda has told you. It might interest you that Gaza had a remarkably young population in 2023 when this started, with close to 47% of its population under 18. A significant number of these were trained by Hamas as young as 13, peaking at 15, in these military training camps. Many joined Hamas, especially after the first wave of fighting, and a high proportion of the "child casualties" in Gaza in this war constitute active Hamas combatants between the ages of 15 and 17, peaking at age 16. That is, they are teenagers trained to be warriors and sent to war. That fact is confirmed by the fact that in under-18 casualties (as reported from within Gaza), the vast majority of older teenager deaths are males, while the smaller proportion of under-12 casualties display an even sex ratio. This is consistent with the unfortunate realities of collateral damage in warfare, which Israel took tremendous pains to minimize (and did so successfully). There is absolutely no evidence that Israel has any systematic program for targeting children, but collateral casualties are a fact of warfare. Understanding culpability in each individual case can be complex and difficult, as not even Jews are perfect or perfectly moral all the time, but weighing on the whole affair is the question of who started this war to begin with? Propaganda tries to pin it on Israel for existing and surviving, but any sober and reasonable assessment places that blame squarely on Hamas and only on Hamas, and not just for the unequivocal declaration of war they made with unbelievably horrific violence on October 7, 2023, which did include deliberately targeting innocent civilians, including children and babies, in ways that far exceed even the violences of war, gleefully broadcast for the world to see. Before we digress further, let's regain the plot. This part is important. Israel has gone out of its way in virtually all of its wars in the last several years, if not longer, to give ample warning to civilians in the areas it will strike so that they have time to clear out. Do you understand this? They're telling their enemies where they will hit before they hit, on purpose, as foolish as that is in warfare, in order to minimize civilian casualties, including especially children. Hamas responds to this by moving militant combatants out and civilians in, committing a war crime in the process, in order to get Israel to desist, which it sometimes has but hasn't always. I need you to understand that Hamas killed those people, not Israel. This is very simple to understand, so give it a try. Hamas deliberately used Israel's casualties-minimizing activities, which are strongly warfare-unstrategic, as a method to increase civilian casualties in Gaza. The most amazing part is that Israel's effort in this regard has still worked. Israel has still managed the lowest civilian casualty ratio in the history of urban warfare. Of course, all of this is also with the deck stacked even more firmly against them because Hamas deliberately integrated its military infrastructure throughout Gaza's civilian infrastructure. The key word in that sentence is "deliberately." Hamas made civilian infrastructure into targets and its inhabitants into casualties by doing these things. In case you're a bit slow, what I am saying is that every reasonable and moral person understands clearly that Hamas is morally culpable for this, not Israel. So, I guess, in short, to finish my thorough reply to your six-word propaganda post (in which you couldn't even get all six words right), while nothing is done perfectly, perhaps especially in warfare, the overwhelming majority of child casualties in Gaza are the direct result of Hamas preparing their deaths, sometimes directly and mostly by committing war crimes through their circumstances. That is, in the overwhelming majority of cases, Hamas killed those kids, not Israel. Hamas. That's Hamas with the overwhelming support of the Gazans they govern and the twisted world that cannot see this issue clearly because of the evils of Hamas and its allies along with rivers of dirty money and wicked geopolitics. That's the network of culpability whose buck stops at... Hamas murdered Gaza's own children and used them and their deaths both as weapons and tools of propaganda in one of the most twisted circumstances of human history. You, David Cavallo, "Daveinthenorth2," got up this Tuesday morning and decided to be on the absolutely wrong side of this, but you have the opportunity to see things more clearly and make the necessary and decent change. Glad we could clear this up.

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