“Americans were fine with far worse bombing in World War 2.”
People rarely pay attention to history unless it somehow involves themselves.
Dresden firebombing... 25,000 to 135,000 civilians killed depending on who does the counting.
Tokyo firebombing... 80,000 to 130,000 killed.
Hiroshima, 70,000 to 126,000 killed.
Nagasaki 60,000 to 80,000 killed.
Civil War historian James McPherson, no apologist for the CSA, estimates 50,000 Southern civilian deaths in the American Civil War.
When I said far worse, I mean far worse. Even if you accept the Hamas numbers, we are looking at 22,000 dead in 88 days. That’s 250 a day. Israel claims 8000 Hamas members killed. We don’t know how man of the 14000 remainder were members of Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Fatah, and civilian participants in October 7th holding hostages. We could be in a sitiation where 10,000 Palestinian combattants or members of terrorist groups have died and 12,000 civilians have died. That’s not genocide. It is terrible. On October 7th, I mourned the Israeli dead and wept for the innocent Palestinians civilians, who would die in the response, due to Hamas using them as human shields. Sadly I failed to account for the role that Egypt and the UN would take in maximizing the number of dead Arabs and blaming Israel.