And, further to Sliver’s point, you can get to a point in a conflict (in this case, before one even begins) where there’s no good path to choose. That doesn’t mean the path they do choose should go without criticism.
If Israel chose to do nothing, agree to the hostage deal, and let the terrorist attack go, anti-Palestinians groups would be apoplectic. There would be posters here, the same shrugging their shoulders at the thousands of dead, that would be frothing at the mouth because the deaths of hundreds went unanswered. Would that have been the wrong response?
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