Your cousin then. They often have different views from what the polls say regarding what the majority of Israelis think on a topic. It would be less confusing if you didn’t use your cousin’s opinion as a proxy for all Israelis on various threads. Sweeping statements like “no one in Israel thinks x” and “they all want y” when that is just what your cousin thinks and wants, of course it is going to confuse those of us that look at polling results that take the views of thousands of Israelis into account.
Oh, and we are back to blame again. As I said earlier, you seem overly invested discussing who has ‘the blame’ rather than thinking about getting the hostages home and the hostilities ended.
I haven’t been pointing ‘the blame’ at Israel, as if I think like you that there is only one singular ‘the blame’ that has to be placed on one party’s head for absolutely everything to do with the war. I get it, you think blame is singular and Hamas has ‘the blame’ for everything it does and everything Israel and everyone else does about the situation in Israel and the OPTs.
To me, there is a lot of blame floating around that can, after investigations when the dust settles, can be portioned out accordingly by the international justice systems between Hamas, Israel, USA, Iran, Egypt, PA, Europe, UN, etcetera etcetera. Blame is for after the war. It doesn’t help end the war.
Right now is the time to get the hostages home and the hostilities stopped because innocents are dying in Gaza at a terrifyingly high rate. I was really happy to see 2 hostages rescued over the weekend, but less happy to see reports that Israel killed 3 hostages and 67 Palestinian civilians as part of their rescue operation.
Negotiation has still had the highest success rate for getting the hostages home safely. When you strip out the emotions and focus on saving the most hostages that as a bonus also avoids killing other innocent civilians, using military force is not the best course of action from a human cost viewpoint.