Right, and that sounds perfectly sensible. As I said, I'm not pretending I have any solution to this problem and my goal is not to stand in the way of any reasonable efforts to stop the ongoing genocide. My caution is just to make the point against demonizing the whole people because it's really easy to do in this situation, and whether ethically they deserve it or not, I am certain it's not the answer and it's not going to solve the problem, it will just make it worse.

My concern is that's exactly the kind of attitude that leads to more violence, death, and can ultimately be used to promote genocide, and extermination in retaliation. That's how they justify their genocide against palestinians in the first place, and I am allergic to the kind of thinking that would justify that against anyone. It's an unjustifiable position. People are just people, humans are just humans, individuals can be evil but people are not inherently evil on a mass scale, it's the systems they are placed in, manipulated and controlled by evil and malicious people who have been empowered by those systems, that make them do evil and behave as if they are evil. They're just indoctrinated people, I refuse to dehumanize them, even when they are acting like they deserve it.