The vast majority of what I have seen has been based on what is featured on the BBC - and occasional videos on Youtube. If there was a military incursion, in which civilians were targeted and women were raped - and based on the evidence I've seen on the BBC that seems to be the case, then that is a morally repugnant act. If you wish to argue that the incursions didn't happen and civilians weren't targeted then go ahead - but the BBC footage I have seen on the news etc suggests this did happen.

Whether or not babies were burned or thrown on spikes or whatever isn't a debate I'm going to enter because there's no point. It's not really a moral concern for me. If civilians were targeted and women were raped - and that seems to be the case then we're done. You're making a moral case for terrorism - which is fine, that's on you.

And no, I wasn't silent about Gaza - I have written that the conflict is too complicated to have simplistic opinions. https://medium.com/lucid-nightmare/why-i-havent-yet-weighed-in-on-the-israel-and-palestine-tensions-d866f7630b68

There is no double standard - the whole thing has been a mess since 1917 - and we'll get into a circular argument. Why are you suddenly vocal NOW, where was your voice in 1988 when the Hamas charter torpedoed the Oslo Accords? The whole thing will turn into an epic circular argument into which bias is applied.

So instead I have written a piece condemning a military incursion which targeted civilians - and pointed out that defending such an action puts you on morally dubious ground. To which you have replied 'Show me your sources! Someone said they were burning babies and this was WRONG because they weren't burning babies and THAT is where we should focus all our attention'. Would you do that unpaid legal defence work for any other military group? Because let's be clear - I'm opposed to Israeli retaliations and any retaliations which aren't military objectives. I held the same position for Iraq and I'll hold the same position indefinitely. My morality on the killing of civilians doesn't change based on who does it.