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Originally Posted by gvitaly
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.
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because they cant, because air defence requires control of the air, it requires radar that is very easily targeted by a modern military, Israel has air defence because Hamas is basically defenceless and has no real ability to do a dam thing, the Iron Dome system is all but useless in a real shooting war with a second modern military as its radar is easy to target