people aren’t their government

But they are their actions. If you go to Ukraine as a part of the killing, raping, looting Russian army, that’s what you are.

Equal disregard for civilian life on both sides

I disagree. Equal disregard for Palestinian civilians maybe. The Israelis care deeply about their own and would never employ the tactics Hamas do.

Still more dangerous for the IDF and less vengeance-effective than just raining death on thousands of civilians on the off-chance that you might also kill a handful of terrorists that Hamas can easily replace.

Do you feel your description matches the reality of this Palestinian dentist? Are the described actions consistent with callously raining death on thousands of civilians?

In a US style first past the post system the Nazis would have made a clean sweep in July 1932, and wouldn't have had to intimidate anybody

My wife does this all the time. I make her pause and then we chat a bit. Works well

My first quote is from a group of Harvard students immediately following the attack on Israel. The second is from Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the President of Turkey. Do heads of state count?

The issue is nobody is saying Hamas attacking civilians are justified

They do, but they word it like this:

We hold the Israeli regime entirely responsible for all unfolding violence

And this:

Hamas is not a terror organization, it is an organization of liberation, of mujahedeen, who fight to protect their land and citizens.

Do you know what either of those terms mean?

Israel kills more civilians than Palestinian orgs do. Palestinian orgs target civilians in a way that Israel simply doesn't. Focusing on Israeli excesses without acknowledging how many Palestinians really, actually, want to exterminate all jews is just as disingenuous as focusing on Israeli security concerns without acknowledging the deprivations they impose on Palestinians.

In danger of repeating myself, no moral high ground to be found.

It is a core feature of most religions that

1. There are hidden forces at work in the world
2. The workings of these hidden forces are more important than the processes we can see, and follow a grand plan

This belief is strikingly similar to conspiratorial worldviews, and the likelihood of subscribing to QAnon and other conspiracy theories rises substantially with increasing religiosity.

They're not the same thing, but they are definitely related

What do you think Israel should be doing?

You're pretty far off the deep end to call the present campaign unprovoked.

Disproportionate, bloody, horrible, inhuman, this you can say, but to claim that Israel wasn't attacked and hasn't suffered is frankly insane

If this is your yardstick, Palestinians are much much more likely to support killing Israelis "just because" than the other way around. There's really no moral high ground in this conflict