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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
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.
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That analogy doesn't particularly make sense in this context though. The Germans were making war by building tanks and planes. Hamas and the like don't have manufacturing infrastructure to destroy, and by executing the strategy that Israel has pursued they're arguably creating more weapons, because in Hamas's case the people are themselves the weapons. So unless you accept the premise that the goal is
literal genocide - i.e., kill absolutely everyone and start over - the effort is counterproductive.