Israel is becoming a bit excessive. Horrors stacked upon horrors only makes things worse. Where does it end? In extermination camps? Kill every single person in Gaza? Why not use a neutron bomb? poison the water? Use poison gas? Or the tried and true put all to the sword? The bad thing—what does this do to the Israelis? What does it do to those who do the killings? Do the Jews wish to become Nazis? There must be another way.
“There must be another way.”
And the other way is what?
Keep Hamas in power so they can continue terrorizing you?
What would you do if your neighbor wants you gone was constantly lobbying molotov cocktails at your house and the cops were no where to be found, or incapable of making them stop?
“There must be another way.”
Name it.
Or pound sand.
I don’t think you’re looking ahead. For years the moral dilemma has raged on about Hiroshima and Nagasaki. 200,000 innocent civilians died yet reasonable people. agree that had the US not ended the war with those atomic bombs 30 million more people could have died. Including US soldiers.
Looking at the big picture these 200 lives might just save 2000 or even 20,000 innocent lives later on.
In any event, blaming Israelf as being excessive as you claim is completely, utterly, and extremely foolish. This is all on Hamas.
So I guess you would have been opposed to the continued strategic bombing of Germany and Japan during WW2 as well, particularly after the beginning of 1944. I mean, after all, it was "innocent" civilians for the most part being killed and maimed, wasn't it? And it wasn't as if the German or Japanese Army, Air Force, or Navy were actually threatening the existence of the United States anymore, were they? You obviously would have been against the use of the atomic bombs on Nagasaki and Hiroshima as continued pummeling of an opponent truly already defeated but too stubborn or uncaring of its civilian population to surrender.
Now, you might argue that the threat of Nazi Germany or Imperial Japan still existed because that threat was a world-wide one. Well, I would argue that, to Israel, Hamas and Hezbollah (with Iran lurking in the background) are far more existential threats to its population than Germany or Japan, battered and almost impotent as they were at the start of 1944, was to the United States. And yet the United States armed forces continued to bomb the population centers of Germany and Japan unmercifully until they did actually surrender.
FAFO.