Hamas Attacks Israel: 70 Israelis, 198 Palestinians Dead

[Dill]

(10-08-2023, 10:56 AM)Sled21 Wrote: And now they are reporting 600 dead Israelis, and a number of the Israelis being held hostage are American citizens. No more "Proportional response BS." That allows your enemy to factor if an attack is worth it. Israel needs to absolutely decimate* Hamas and the Hezbo, and if Lebanon bitches decimate them as well. The only way this ever stops is to make people too afraid to attack.... which was the way the US used to be. Remember about 4 years agonwhen the middle east was signing historic peace deals?

Actually, Israel has never been big on "proportional response."

What you are recommending here doesn't differ from policies already favored by Netanyahu and before him Sharon
--i.e., "making people too afraid to attack."  That's not as easy as it looks when the "people" in question have been 
under military occupation for generations. In 1982 Sharon led the IDF into Lebanon and they took Beirut. The goal was to get
rid of PLO training camps south of Beirut, which they accomplished (5,000 fighters were transferred to Tunisia). But the destruction
and costly occupation created Hezbollah, a much more formidable enemy than eiither Hamas or the PLO, where no such enemy had
been before. Anyway, the kind of "decimation" you propose would not likely be tolerated by Israel's neighbors or most of the UN.
Were they able to accomplish it, it would merely set the stage another generation of violence and instability.

Not sure what point you are making with reference to the peace deals. They are likely one reason for attack under way now,
maybe even the immediate cause.

*"Decimate" means to kill every tenth one. It was a Roman punishment used on military units which failed in their duty.