More than 40 people have been killed in an Israeli airstrike that hit a cafe near the port in Gaza City, according to the head of the territ
the issue with attacks like this is that they are hardly even newsworthy stories? if a cafe in Tel Aviv is bombed and dozens die (let alone a cafe in New York or London or Paris) then that's a Serious Incident that requires a Robust Response, most likely involving fighter planes and tanks to demonstrate that attacks on civilians will not be tolerated, but if it happens in Gaza, well... stuff just blows up there, right? place was probably full of terrorists anyway, Hamas probably exaggerated the death toll, the IDF went to extraordinary lengths to "minimise" civilian casualties -- not to zero obviously, but it would be unreasonable to expect more, no other army could have done better -- and so getting upset about this just makes you a naive radical misled by the media into rabid antisemitism.
and I think it's important to consider the counterfactual world where this attack didn't take place -- perhaps a minor malfunction grounded the plane or the missile failed to detonate -- would it be worse? was this a ticking time bomb situation where the cafe had to be blown up and dozens of people killed to save an even greater number? because that seems really unlikely to me!
the recent exchange of missiles between Israel and Iran killed hundreds of people and you could attempt to justify this by claiming that a nuclear strike would kill hundreds of thousands, so anything that avoids or delays this is worth it (arguably a diplomatic solution that provided trade incentives for abandoning nuclear development might work better than attacks that make a nuclear deterrent even more attractive, of course).
however the Palestinians don't have nukes, and it's quite possible that more people will end up killed by the IDF in Gaza than were killed by the nuclear attack on Nagasaki, so what end does all this death and destruction serve? besides a modest expansion of the borders of the state of Israel and the maintenance of demographic supremacy?
