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Originally Posted by Chris
And there is no sense in which Israel’s response can be considered proportionate or strategic. It’s straight up vengeance with no regard for what comes next.
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It's not a question of "proportionality". There's no such thing in war, only winners and losers.
Israel is at war with Hamas, Netanyahu has already stated his strategic objectives. To totally eliminate Hamas and remove their ability to ever attack Israel again.
If that means systematically going through Gaza and destroying anything that they think is being used by Hamas.........then that is what they're going to do.
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Originally Posted by jfman
I doubt they ever had any plans to the contrary.
I think we should file the pretence that this is about Israeli self-defence alongside other extremist positions.
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Eliminating your enemy, or at least eliminating their capability to attack you, is self defence.