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Originally Posted by afc wimbledon
The trouble with this argument is it hasn't mattered what Israel does, they have been nice, they have been bastards, it hasn't mattered, Hamas like Hezbollah are committed to the complete and utter destruction of Israel and rely on a continuing war for their funding and reason for existence
While I think Israel has been utterly immoral in their actions in Gaza I can see the practical reason for it, nothing less than this has worked so maybe the utter destruction of Gaza destroys Hamas? maybe it doesn't but from Israels point of view so what? not destroying Gaza didnt fix anything, maybe this does, history is mostly made up of wars were the complete and total destruction of one side ended all resistance, if I'm Israeli moral issues aside I can see the argument for it
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If you look at death tolls you can see that Israel’s actions do matter. You can look at Israeli deaths or total deaths. Recently Deaths correlate with Israeli military action. Now this doesn’t prove the counterfactual of less people would have died if Israel didn’t act but it does show Israeli actions matter.