At some US colleges, supporters of Palestinians and supporters of Jews are accusing each other of bloodlust.

Both HAMAS and Israel are displaying plenty of bloodlust. To diminish that, it behooves us to criticize the bloodlust of both sides and to mourn the civilian victims (present and past) on both sides.

Netanyahu has silenced the soldiers' protest movement for democracy, for the time being, but his failure to prevent the HAMAS massacres has aroused widespread public hatred.

I hope that their justified rage against that failure does not distract Israelis too long from Netanyahu's deeper threat: the authoritarianism he seeks to impose on their country.

Netanyahu speaks of wiping out HAMAS completely with a ground attack, but that is futile. Young people growing up in Gaza, the open-air prison, expect to be killed.

*Israeli airstrikes hit northern Gaza as Palestinians try to leave* (as Israel told them to).

This does not surprise me; many Israelis are as full of terrorist-spirited hatred as HAMAS. That attitude will tend to lead to ever-escalating violence on both sides.

*Analysis of aerial photos and social media posts confirms attack on road identified as safe by Israeli army.*

The man Israel needs now is Uri Avnery, but I don't know of anyone alive like him. I wish I did.

(satire) *Dying Gazans Criticized For Not Using Last Words To Condemn Hamas.*

That page is mean as satire, but I am afraid there are Americans who would say the same thing seriously.

*Netanyahu told 1.1 million Palestinians they had 24 hours to evacuate. What is that if not ethnic cleansing?*

*Israel's response to this terror must be resolute. But it must remain consistent with international law.*