*[Many] US supporters of Israel and Palestine fail to admit suffering of other side.*

They become *so entrenched in [their] views that to give an inch, even to acknowledge someone else’s suffering, feels like a betrayal [of the side one supports].*

I do not want to try to compare the gravity of HAMAS's war crimes with the gravity of Israel's war crimes. But we can easily see that Israel commits fresh war crimes every day, while HAMAS does not.

It's not that HAMAS has reformed or learned anything about the morality of killing or seizing civilians. It is simply that the current tactical situation offers HAMAS no opportunities to commit its forms of war crimes. It is nonetheless true that the newly committed war crimes are committed by Israel. Therefore, in regard to putting an end to the war crimes, we must focus on Israel's continuing war crimes, which It cannot excuse by citing the crimes of its enemies,

"Retaliation" and "deterrence" are not excuses for war crimes.