Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Hezbollah, etc. are where violent bigots gather to plan and commit acts designed to force their opponents to comply with their desires. Just like Zionist terrorists who devised and implemented Plan Dalet.
Those two are hardly comparable. And not only because the former is happening right now and the latter is almost ~75 years in the past.
I think Israel needs to stop bombing Gaza because it is killing thousands of unarmed civilians.
Many German civilians died in the last year of WWII as well. That does not mean it was wrong to bomb Germany.
Their deaths won't make Israel any safer, it will rightfully turn more and more people against Israel.
That remains to be seen. Hamas gained in popularity after 10/7 because of the murderous success of that operation, not because of Israel's response. If Hamas is allowed to survive it will claim victory and become all the more popular for it.
I think Israel needs to not only stop building settlements, it needs to relocate the settlers and offer the empty housing to the Palestinians it made refugees when Zionists and the IDF destroyed their homes.
Israel has historic connection to Judea and Samaria. More so than Arabs (many of them recent immigrants from places like Egypt or Yemen) who had to only live there for two years between 1946 and 1948 for them and their descendants to count as "Palestinian refugees" in perpetuity.
UNRWA said:
Palestine refugees are defined as “persons whose normal place of residence was Palestine during the period 1 June 1946 to 15 May 1948, and who lost both home and means of livelihood as a result of the 1948 conflict.”
Not even UNRWA is buying the claim that Palestinians are the indigenous population of the Land of Israel.
I think Israel should never stop wanting the hostages back, and not expect the Palestinians to stop wanting their people back either.
Yet another of your false equivalences.
Israeli hostages are innocent. Those whom you euphemistically describe as "their people" as terrorists serving time in Israeli prisons. People like Abdullah Barghouti who is serving 67 life terms for being involved in a large number of Hamas terrorist attacks.
I think Israel should release everyone it is holding in administrative detention, i.e. prisoners who have never been charged with any crime, much less convicted, and should allow an impartial international panel to review the evidence and court proceedings of any non-Israeli who was convicted of a crime.
Administrative detention is a tool used to detain terror suspects. There is no trial, but a judge still has to sign off on it.
It is in principle not much different than holding Al Qaeda terrorists in Guantanamo, except that a judge has to renew the detention order every six months.
Why should Israel submit to a supposedly "impartial" international panel to review sentences of terrorist masterminds like the aforementioned Barghouti?
There are credible allegations of torture and suppression of evidence when it comes to Palestinians accused of being enemy combatants. I think it's important for people to believe that justice, not vengeance, is being served.
Allegations by Palestinian prisoner groups you mean. They also call imprisoned terrorists "political prisoners".
I don't know the details of the peace plan de jure, but I doubt it's so sweet that every asshole in Hamas/Islamic Jihad/Hezbollah etc. would stop raiding Israel, stop launching rockets, killing Jews whenever, when ever they can. I do think a good deal would make the less fanatic back off, and the more pragmatic relent entirely.
There is nothing short of dissolution of Israel that would make Hamas, IJ et al stop engaging in terrorism. Therefore, the only choice is to destroy them.
However, I also believe a sweet deal, or even any deal that allows a Palestinian State for be established on Palestine, would inspire fanatic Zionists to murder anyone who supports it, even Jews.
There are far more fanatic Palestinians than fanatic Israelis. "Zionist" is a loaded term, being often used by groups opposed to the very existence of Israel. Your continued use of it is telling.
Likewise for any deal that grants full and equal rights to Palestinians in a One State solution.
That is a horrible plan, as Palestinians would make Jews second class citizens - if not worse - as soon as they can.
Justice, fairness, respect, and upholding the rights of all persons equally is the only thing that has ever resolved conflicts like the one going on in Israel and Palestine. The sooner we apply one single standard when we judge the rightness or wrongness of a person's or nation's acts, the better for everyone.
The problem is that you do not apply a single standard, you engage in false equivalence.
IMO bombing civilians who have gathered together to seek shelter, or to get a hot meal, or to enjoy a music festival, is utterly immoral no matter who did it to whom. The perpetrators must be defeated on the ground and at the ballot box, and those who have chosen diplomacy and negotiation instead of terrorism and brutality must be supported.
Hamas would likely win any election held in the near future. As far as "bombing civilians who have gathered together to seek shelter, or to get a hot meal" that is according to Hamas sources inside Gaza. Any reason they should be believed?