Proportionality…
If one side has vowed your complete annihilation, and they’re using every resource available
to them to do so, it would be proportionate for you to do the same.
Yep, fight threats of genocide with actual genocide! That’s the spirit.
And I see nothing wrong with that. This situation will go on forever, unless the Israeli government takes decisive action against Hamas now. I see nothing wrong with going after the Hamas leadership in Qatar as well.
That is of course completely despicable. Not surprising from a Settler.
And thus you demonstrate why Hamas’ strategy works, and why they will continue to employ it, and why more children will die.
So I guess just letting Hamas live to fire rockets indiscriminately and dig tunnels to use to slaughter those living in communities near the border is just fine and dandy. Gee, that’s swell of you.
So it’s either that or kill children is it?
To put it bluntly, yes. But prove me wrong. Show me, in the history of the world, a military operation of any size against an enemy in urban environment that didn’t kill children.
So we might as well get rid of the pretense then and just bomb schools, eh?
Why do you hate Israelis children? Hamas is repeatedly trying to murder Israelis children while using Palestinian children as human shields. Hamas obviously hates children but apparently finds them useful.
No. We might as well pursue the military objectives while trying to minimize civilian casualties. Like Israel has been doing.
It seems that’s the way Hamas wants it, and it doesn’t seem to bother them any. It’s not as if the “leadership” is offering to use themselves instead of the kids as human shields, unfortunately.
I think part of the reason people are arguing with you is that you know what you don’t want Israel to do, but what should they do? How should they respond to missile attacks and crossborder tunnels?
Yep of course when the IDF kill children, it’s always somebody elses fault
When US killed children in Serbia/Kosovo, whose fault was it?
Or: fight attempts at genocide with – the minimum amount of force that’d stop 'em?
when Hamas deliberately surrounds itself with children then yes, they would be the “somebody else”.
Hamas isn’t an invading force operating within Palestine, they were voted in and have the support of the populace.
Calling something “genocide” that is very clearly not a genocide only cheapens the term.
If the schools are where Hamas is staging their attacks from, then yes. There is no pretense here. It’s what’s happening now, and rightfully so.
Of course there’s no actual evidence that Hamas deliberately surround themselves with children - the actual charges are mainly that they operate in urban areas (a bit like the IDF, eh), whereas the IDF have handcuffed children to APVs to protect themselves, making this a fairly egregious piece of double-speak.
Of course there can never be any question of proportionality or necessity or specifics. Once the IDF say it’s Hamas’s fault it doesn’t matter what they do, because it’s Hamas’s fault.