I'm shocked at some of the images emerging from Israel over the last couple of days, particularly from the ill-fated music festival that was overrun by the Hamas terrorists and where 250 people were killed or kidnapped, let's not beat about the bush though, those "people" were just kids.
I was particularly struck by the way in which these Arab thugs were treating the bodies of those that had been executed, no respect or decency was shown, barbarity rarely seen today, barbarity which harks back to medieval times. The terror and horror on the faces of the festival victims doesn't bear thinking about. I have two young adult children myself, of exactly the same age-range as these unfortunate people, and the thought of my Son or Daughter appearing in such distress, in such a situation, plastered all over social-media is beyond my worst imagination.
Social media and the modern penchant for distributing pictures and movies of pretty much everything that happens is a double edged sword for Hamas. On the one hand it enables the members of their vile organisation to easily communicate with each other using encrypted public services, it allows them to easily spread their propaganda to their devotees, but, it also allows the rest of us to see their barbaric behaviour. Sympathy for the Palestinian cause and support for a peaceful resolution to this mess would seem to be at an all time low in the West and in Israel itself at this time, and I can fully understand why.
What the next few weeks deliver will, no doubt, be alarming and distressing to all involved and it's difficult to see any form of peaceful or civilised outcome. Perhaps the most likely route from here is a long protracted ground invasion of Gaza by the Israelis, that won't be easy and thousands more will almost certainly lose their lives although lot's of the commentators on the ground seem to be predicting this at the moment. I guess if you're in the mind-space of an Israeli citizen this week there aren't too many options open.
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