Opinion | Israelis must maintain their humanity even when their blood boils

On Saturday, Hamas committed an abominable war crime for which there can be no forgiveness. Our eyes see but our hearts refuse to believe that human beings can be capable of such cruelty – an inconceivable slaughter of hundreds of civilians in their own homes and at the scene of a party, the abduction of civilians, the abduction of children and the elderly, and sadistic psychological abuse of families whose loved ones have disappeared.