A western government in the Middle East is the only way that segment of the world will eventually embrace egalitarian values. There’s the side that believes women are 2nd class citizens if not worse, who believes blasphemy should be a death sentence, and the side that thinks a western democracy with free elections and human rights is worth preserving.

That’s why I care. We just saw how easy a military force of any significance can tear through Eastern Europe. We saw millions of Arabs illegally enter Europe who have zero interest in assimilating and solely want western comfort - namely the reasonable expectation you won’t be dragged out of your home in the middle of a night by an angry mob. A war with the East is inevitable. US and NATO intel unanimously agree at least. I value a united West as the deterrent to Chinese expansion, so preventing a 21st century caliphate that serves as the buffer to China is one of my top global concerns.

Of course you have the Jesus heads who are hoping for a rebuilt temple to bring their own Armageddon, but those blow hard are just as opposed as their progressive counterparts to do anything beyond yelling into the void of social media.

So yea, any effort to negate the authority that promotes the same ideology as Al Qaeda and ISIS is A-Ok in my book. I don’t give much credence to the propaganda of Jihadis, so any numbers from Hamas you know are incredibly exaggerated. And quite frankly, any Palestinian not a direct threat that is part of collateral damage save the children, aren’t really innocents. Hamas and their supporters falsely believe they can use their children as human shields. That’s not true anymore, so who really has culpability from knowingly putting “innocents” in danger to hide from Israel.

Just compare the tactics used by Russia in Ukraine and those used by Israel in Gaza. Tell me who’s fighting the humane war.