@seazen_ Perhaps @syzygy2600 is as partisan in this dispute as you are. Of course, babies and children massacred mean something. They mean a great deal. But Palestinians murdered and pushed off their land and seeing homes that have been in their families for generations bulldozed matter just as much as Israelis having such things happen to them.
When, in their guilt over ignoring the holocaust, the European powers partitioned off a new homeland for the Jewish people, they made a terrible mistake. The European powers had a longstanding view that the world was basically theirs to divide up as they saw fit and indigenous people who weren’t great industrialized powers were not really humans and had no inherent human rights. If, instead of just partitioning off the land, they had engaged all parties in negotiations and established an acceptable homeland for the Palestinian people at that time, none of this horror would be going on today.
At this juncture, that is not possible. but the tactic of bulldozing houses and continually grabbing land is only going to lead to more and more tragedies like the one you related. Certainly the murders are to blame, but so is the Israeli policy that left them feeling that they had no other option than violence. But hard nosed “Im perfect and they are shit-heads” rhetoric works so well in right-wing circles, and the right has great sway in Israel today. This will get much worse before cooler heads prevail and fix the mess you are making.