"Hamas doesn't want a ceasefire!"

This phrase rings like a bell in my circles every time the topic of humanitarian ceasefire comes up, and it effectively stonewalls the conversation. Just a point of frustration that I have no real place to ventilate.

Other bangers include:

• Israel can't trust the Palestinians, they've never been given a reason to do so.
• Hamas wants to make Israel not exist.
• So you equate Israel now to Nazis during WW2? (while talking about the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising)
• Hamas takes drugs and ... ::: spoiler spoiler rapes corpses of women and children. :::

Hard to be interested in engaging after reading that last one, but no one else is going to bring the missing half of the conversation.