managed by a hostile nation that has a manifest destiny encompassing all of its territories and none of its people.
Gee, why wouldn't they want to share real estate with people who have literally been trying to murder them all for the last century, refuse to surrender or negotiate for a viable peace, and call for their genocide? It's a mystery. They must be jerks.
Literally no one is defending the Hamas attacks as just or righteous.
Literally many people have been defending Hamas, threads about this issue are full of people simping for them and justifying their terror attacks. Some Harvard students famously got in hot water for doing so very recently.
It's a total red herring pointing it out.
Hamas' attack is the casus belli for this war. Referring to it as such is acknowledging reality/causality, not misdirection.
And it's just a big pile of shit that anyone who says anything on the issue needs to hedge everything they say with the obvious fact that they don't condone violent terrorism. It was violent terrorism. No reasonable person is in favor of violent terrorism.
And yet reprisals against this "violent terrorism," launched by a hostile government from a territory they control, is portrayed as an act of genocide by many. Just because the population in this territory happens to be homogenous and the terrorist leadership hides among civilians and children, doesn't make this any less an act of self-defense.