How in a military operation do you accidentally kidnap elderly women? I’m not a military strategist by any stretch of the imagination but I’m pretty sure I could differentiate between a military target and a grandmother. What are these hostage negotiations over children and octogenarians all about if October 7th was a perfectly executed military operation.

Confirmation bias might be your friend here - and you’ve decided ‘colonial’ is the worst label in the world and therefore anything and everything can be pretzel-morality justified.