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Originally Posted by Nage Waza
I am not sure why you think a defensive war requires some casualty score card, it doesn't. Israel isn't just facing Hamas, it has had attacks from the Houthis, Lebanon, Iran and Gaza. This isn't just some random attack, it is well coordinated.
Israel doesn't have the population to tie up a massive army either, it has to fight this way.
You haven't described an alternative for Israel.
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How many civilian casualties over the last 20 years? What they were doing was effective. With 307 military casualties they likely aren’t even preventing more Israeli deaths in the future than Israeli military personal have died in this conflict. It took from 2008 - 2023 for 308 Israeli civilians to be killed. This is bad math from purely an Israeli perspective.
Fix the intelligence failure that led to October 7th and keep doing what they were doing.
As for the scorecard when looking at whether a war is just I think it matters. Ideally the war would prevent future deaths compared to inaction. I think it’s tough to tell if that is the case.
Also to add I have described an alternative when you previously asked this question. Israel should have a lower threshold for the acceptable amount of civilian casualties and a higher threshold for military casualties for each operational decision.