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You seem to not understand what a proportionate response in war is. Israel's goal is extermination of the terrorist threat in Gaza, their actions are proportional for those goals. Not lost in the calculation is the terrorists saying they intend on continuing their terror attacks on civilians, making a ceasefire all but impossible to institute.
The question of whether or not it's humane or ethical is a different question that should be debated.
Watch this My life as a Palestinian fighter - YouTube with a little bit critical of an eye and tell me what you think. This is supposed to be in favor of Palestinians, but what I get out of it is that the mother is proud of the son fighting and dying. What I get out of this is that many Gazans want the fighting to continue, but only when it's their people fighting Israel. Who do you think put out this video? Do you think Israel is behind it? Or do you think it's honestly made in favor of Palestine? What's the purpose of this video and who made it?
How do you propose to kill everyone who is Hamas without killing any civilians?
In war, civilians always die. That's just reality.
Callous and disgusting that you'd even try to justify that.
They have one of the most technologically sophisticated militaries in the world. You think they can't minimize civilian casualties? The state of Israel is run by fascists who are building an ethnostate. They don't care about Palestinians.
The cost of destroying Hamas isn't worth intentionally targeting civilians. They're blowing up HOSPITALS.
You didnt answer his question. Avoiding it does not make you more right than him.
I'm not answering the question because I'm not drawing the line at no civilians. It's not my position so I'm not going to defend it.
Oh so having thousands of armed forces destroying borders in a calculated coordinated attack including drones and rockets is not an army?
Read about Hamas. Learn that they're a small army, coordinated and with levels of commands, platoons, and units.
Stop imagining Israel as being terrorists targeting civilians - they're an army targeting terrorists who target civilians, and who're hiding behind civilians for safety.
Are the cartels armies?
If a cartel attacks Mexico, should Mexico just bomb their entire city?
In some capacity yes.
That's a different question entirety unrelated to if they're armies or not. 1940s Japan certainly had an army, but did that justify nuking and firebombing cities?
This is nothing like Japan. This is like Vietnam where America invades a country it isn't supposed to be and "self defences" all over the place
Okay, irrelevant, the Vietcong was also an army.
That's the wrong question. The right question is if the mexican cartels started launching rockets and slaughtering the U.S.bordering Mexico - then what do you think would happen?
That isn't even a question, it's a tautology given how the US is fully supporting whatever Israel is doing.