"No, what Israel did was in response to the terrorist attack in question"
it was very much a very deliberate overreaction, i daresay a welcome pretext to advance the plan to create Greater Israel.
they could have easily asked for foreign peacekeepers, to help locate the hostages, to conduct house by house searches instead of flattening every structure.
they sure did a great job of telling the civilians by which routes to flee to "safe zones" and then FIRE on them when they did just that.

"Hamas could have lived pretty well had they simply ended their jihad."
no one in in the occupied territories has been living well since the foundation of modern Israel which has long been in flagrant violation of the Geneva Convention they signed & ratified in 1951
https://www.un.org/unispal/doc...

"But then, they wouldn't be Hamas, would they?"
without the machinations of Israel leaders Hamas either would not have existed or grown.
Tel Aviv nurtured them because they thought a motley crew of religious radicals led by Ahmed Yassin would be an effective counter to Arafat's largely secular Fateh party.
the Israeli hardliners would sooner piss broken glass than accept a 2 state solution & while some have vague mouthings in support, it's always proven to be specious.

Trump loves to do business with Chy-NAH!

"b'cos the October 7th massacre now close to 3 years ago was a walk in the park for Israel, right?"
that was a terrorist attack.
what Israel has done as reprisal is a genocide.
if i were deeply concerned about the safety & wellbeing of fellow countrymen being held hostage in tunnels i wouldn't risk collapsing said tunnels by leveling every building.

"you are an antisemite"
if my opinions & statements wrt Israel actions are such then so are those of many Jews & Jewish media who've been far more sharply critical from the outset than even the US politicians who claim to support Palestinians.

Bibi is doing what he deems essential for HIS own survival. The region is very much in dramatic disarray but that won't last forever and both sides have long histories & longer memories.
What's been done will come back to bite Israel and they are grossly outnumbered and have lost the support of of the West.
Were it not for the USA more than a few Western countries would have intervened militarily to end Netanyahu's genocide.

Trump would overcharge for Kool-Aid but buy the cheapest knockoff he could find

what is this "long-TDS" bullshit?
the fucker has been crippling & corrupting everything since his 1st admin but was restrained by some senior people who had at least a modicum of sanity.
shitheads were whinging that Obama would be rounding up people into FEMA concentration camps whereas what he *actually* did was deport significantly more without disrupting or disobeying courts, making emergency SCOTUS applications, shooting protesting citizens dead in the streets or grifting on a historic scale.

FFS, "patriots" lost their minds when the "uppity Kenyan" wore a tan suit - like Reagan used to do - and installed a basketball court
  and derided his "mom jeans".
was that Obama Derangement Syndrome? was he wrong to not insult journalists he disagreed with, to not walk out on Bill O'Reilly?

even if every Slashdotter makes sure to avoid stocks like these there are still many millions who can get burned if this goes sideways and there are many who are worse than SpaceX

then Trump will pardon him on the way out. Might do for Ghislaine too

having this money-losing company fast-tracked to be included in pension funds is crazy.
and Elon is such a bullshitter, spewing crap about how AI will make money obsolete and endless resources for everyone which continually aspiring to obtain more for himself.
I've heard he's scheming to get to $10 trillion USD.

solar deployments would still be miniscule were it not for credits & mandates

I"m less concerned about that than about upkeep & regular maintenance.
One of the great disappointments of NorthAm charging networks is how lackluster the reliability has been even for extensive ones like Electrify America which was backed by VW money. Afaik only Tesla has done a much better than average job of charger maintenance

"The Q factor is eminently predictable with scale"
i predict it'll scale eminently up to beyond brown dwarf scale before it's viable but that poses a slight problem for commercial deployment.
"single person's two decades-old view"
it's been nearly 6 decades since i 1st heard that commercial fusion was at most 20 years away.
given my family history it'll be nearly as miraculous as fusion if i have that many years left so i'm done sitting waiting & listening to more promises that'll never happen.

"it's the most well understood type of fusion"
more like the type most understood to not work.
as Robert Bussard said in his famous Google TechTalk in Nov 2006, "we don't think it'll ever be economic but it's really good science" and "one of my friends Dr Nicholas Kroll, one of the top 3 theorists in the world said some years ago we've spent $15 billion studying tokamaks and what we know is they're no damned good".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

safer perhaps but not safe. doubtful anything written in C is truly safe

those "friends" will always be exempt. the rules are for thee & me