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Originally Posted by undercoverbrother
There is a lot here and you are clearly close to this and rightly concerned about family.
But I would say that the Israeli response is never proportional to the attack.
Hamas get about 10% of it's rocket's through anti-missile defenses, 100% of Israeli munitions get on target.
The numbers of dead/wounded/homeless in Gaza is far far greater than in Israeli.
I guess what I am saying is it would look better is Israel showed some restrained.
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I agree that it's never proportional. I just don't see why it should be. If your opponent knows you will fire one rocket back for everyone of his, he can plan exactly how to strike and what response you will have.
Why doesn't Hamas build air defenses instead of spending all its budget on rockets? Each rocket the Israeli defense fires costs $100,000 it takes two rockets to bring down each rocket fired that is going to hit an urban area. Again, you're trying to quantify war. Israel is trying to send a message that shooting rockets at it is a bad idea. Is it working? no. I don't know what would work, no one does.
I just want the conflict to be over with as quickly as possible. I want there to be as little casualties on both sides. I don't want a single Palestinian dead. I also don't want the default action whenever you disagree with an Israeli policy to be fire a rocket and see what happens.