Caitlin Johnstone posted on Twitter (or X, or whatever you want to call it), this fine post:

No matter how much you talk about October 7, it will still be a fact that Israel is raining military explosives upon an enclosed area full of children, and that it urgently needs to stop.

No matter how much you talk about how evil and bad Hamas are, it will still be a fact that Israel is raining military explosives upon an enclosed area full of children, and that it urgently needs to stop.

No matter how much you say the words “human shields”, it will still be a fact that Israel is raining military explosives upon an enclosed area full of children, and that it urgently needs to stop.

No matter how much you accuse Israel’s critics of loving terrorists, it will still be a fact that Israel is raining military explosives upon an enclosed area full of children, and that it urgently needs to stop.

No matter how much you accuse Israel’s critics of hating Jews, it will still be a fact that Israel is raining military explosives upon an enclosed area full of children, and that it urgently needs to stop.

No matter how many words you use or how much narrative spin you try to put on it or how many ad hominems you throw at the people criticizing what Israel is doing, it will still be a fact that Israel is raining military explosives upon an enclosed area full of children, and that it urgently needs to stop.

In essence, I agree… but Ms. Johnstone seems to blame Israel.

I get it.

The idea of dead children is horrifying. That’s exactly why Hamas creates them.

Ms. Johnstone blames Israel for falling into a trap of Hamas’ explicit making. Hamas herds children into military targets, Israel hits those targets, Hamas gets to say “but they killed the human shields we put there!” and fine, fine people like Ms. Johnstone blame Israel instead of, you know, the actual war criminals (as using human shields, especially deliberately, is a war crime, and Hamas isn’t even shy about it, having bragged about this strategy publicly.)

I don’t want any dead children, whether in Gaza or Israel. Ms. Johnstone seems to have forgotten the Israeli children butchered by Gaza by explicit targeting, in her fury at blaming Israel for conducting a war against legitimate military targets with civilian casualties.

But if Hamas had any agreement with her, in trying to avoid dead children, they could have.. you know… not targeted children on October 7 themselves (they did) or even not herd children into military encampments (they do) or, here’s an idea, not use places where children are, like refugee camps, for military purposes (again, a war crime, but one they commit so often that it’s difficult to observe without sounding like a broken record.)