defenseless people.

They fired over 8500 rockets at Israel in the last three weeks.

Lame attempt to distract what caused it all.

are they acceptable collateral damage if Israel bombs them?

What’s the alternative? Let the other 2.4 million in Gaza suffer under Hamas forever? Collateral damage doesn’t magically disappear just because you wish for it.

Yawn. As predicted, yet another one without a solution to the problem.

Hamas killing over 1000 Israeli’s and shooting thousands of rockets at Israel, in case you missed it.

So I provide a potential solution and you hand wave it away

I repeat myself: How is that going to stop Hamas?

Your “solution” is not much of a solution when it completely fails to address the problem at hand.

Some of you may die, but that’s a price I am willing to pay? Terrible terrible take.

What’s the alternative? Being stuck up with Hamas forever?

First to answer? Far from it, unanswerable? No, build bridges, don’t bomb them. It’s not being dodged by anyone.

Build bridges with whom? How is that going to stop Hamas? You are providing the same useless non-answer as anybody else. Hamas is still shooting rockets at Israel. How do you stop them?

By killing thousands of them?

That’s the price you pay for getting rid of a dictatorship.

if Israel wanted to help the Palestinians there are a million positive things they could do to get rid of hamas

And that would be? Please be the first to answer the unanswerable question that every Palestine supporter just loves to dodge.

There are millions of ideas if you cared enough.

And yet you couldn’t even name a single one, nor could anybody else that I asked the question.

Hard problems don’t magically go away just because you pretend they are easy.

It’s a dictatorship

So they should be happy that Israel is helping them get rid of it.

What does that change? Hamas is still in power and still enjoying widespread support.

2006 Palestinian legislative election

Though luck. You voted terrorists into power and let them dig tunnels under your cities. So cleanup is going to get messy.

As long as nobody has a better idea on how to get rid of Hamas, this is unavoidable.

A single stray rocket from within Gaza killed 500 people

Don’t worry, that 500 number is bullshit, the parking lot wasn’t even big enough to house that many people, let alone with all the parked cars blocking the way.

That’s why you don’t humble them, you destroy them and replace them. We didn’t get rid of Hitler by being nice to him.

How exactly does any of that help to get rid of Hamas?

What’s your alternative approach?

One theory is that they hoped that other Arab nations would join and attack Israel. That so far didn’t happen and so Hamas has to bear the full brunt of Israel’s response all by themselves.

many people have proposed several extremely viable alternatives

This discussion would be so much better if you people would just stop DODGING THE QUESTION.

so, history has shown that the military stuff doesn’t really work

Worked pretty damn well against Germany and Japan. The crux is that Hamas is no longer just random insurgents, they already are the government and they have wide support in the population.

you have to do the “rebuilding” beforehand

All of that just ends up supporting Hamas. They’ll have all the resources with none of the responsibilities. Just look what they have done in Gaza, they build huge tunnel networks, thousands of rockets and kept indoctrinating the next generation in schools and camps. You don’t stop that by throwing more resources at them. You have to completely disrupt their organisation and replace the hole they leave with something else.