Israel will start to lose support

Wnen Hamas invaded Israel and committed the most appalling massacres and atrocities, the world, with the exception of a few pro-terrorism countries, such as Iran, were aghast and sympathised with the Israelis. The danger now is that if Israel goes ahead with a full-scale invasion of Gaza and destroys buildings throughout the Strip in the search for Hamas hideouts and strongholds and arms factories, that sympathy will fade. Already Israeli airtsrikes have killed more than 1,000 Palestinians, many of them civilians. A wholesale slaughter by Israeli forces in revenge operations against Hamas will very quickly change the way the world feels about the latest war to hit the planet. Israel knows this but the government of Benjamin Netanyahu, now temporarily run by a coalition national war cabinet, is not going to give up until Hamas no longer exists. I doubt even the full force of the Israeli army can eliminate every Hamas member but in the course of trying, civilians are going to die in large numbers and then the world may turn against Israel, especially if the killing and destruction continue for months. This of course is what Hamas and its backers, Iran, want. Hamas started the atrocities knowing that Israel would fight back. Hamas doesn't care what the world thinks but the fact is if the world turns against Israel because of the intensity of the revenge attacks, terrorism will win. That would be the worst possible outcome.