Thomas Mann wrote that from Los Angeles, which makes it kind of incommensurable with the thoughts of someone in Gaza. Incidentally, yesterday I happened to visit again my city's largest WW2 bunker turned museum of sorts, which includes a sound reevocation of an Allied bombing. Unfortunately the info panels do not include opinion polls of the local population in 1943.
This would a good rebuttal if my point had been 'polling says Gazans support the bombing.' Unfortunately it actually was that thinking they
should is not some horrific incitement to genocide