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Originally Posted by Zary's-Mustache
That's exactly what I said.
They pose a threat but not the threat of being taken over by Hamas like the world was on the verge of being taken over by the Nazis like the post I was replying to was suggesting in the comparison they made.
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The great majority of German civilian deaths in WW2 occurred in the last 9 months of the war, when the outcome was no longer in doubt. The reason the Allies utterly destroyed Germany and its war-making capacity even after it was clear Germany couldn’t win the war, was because they didn’t want to have to come back again in 20 years and do it again (like they did 20 years after WW1 ended in an armistice with most of Germany remaining undamaged and unoccupied).
Israel sees this as that kind of war. They’re not pursuing a proportional tit-for-tat response to a terrorist attack. They’re trying to destroy the war-making capacity of a threat on its borders.