General Discussion

I think you can be apalled by the Absolutely Heneious murders, and kidnapping of those Israeli Jews that day (and still holding many), and what seems to me to be way too broad a military action/war injuring, and killing so many esp work, and children.
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From the time I was nearly 8 yes it let into my later 40s I grew up in a then 2/3rds Jewish neighborhood, and then a 3/5th - 2/3rd Jewish nabe.
My early-mid 1960's Jewish friends had missing family. I once saw a friend's grandmother's Holocaust "tattooed"* numbers.

I seriously prefer diplomacy to violence, but I'm Not a total pacifist. I think Israel had/s to go after Hamas (and Hezbollah), but in reaction to this atrocity; I'd have preferred a mix of a more targeted war, and special ops.

*" " It was tatooed but you usually think of those as a positive event