So if a kid breaks your window, do you kick the shit out of him? If someone calls your wife a bitch, do you whip out your big ass handgun and splatter his brains against the wall. No, a sensible persons reaction is proportional to the offense and proportional is often defined as what your neighbors believe to be acceptable judgment.
I do not believe Israels actions against Hamas is proportional.
It is not even a question that Israel has the right to defend itself. No one would argue that they do not. But are they acting like the guy splattering some idiots brains against the brick wall for calling his wife a bitch. Yea, kinda, don’t you think?
It’s like America going to war with Malawi. Tanks against spears, guns against rocks, the rich against the poor. You know, the strong kicking the shit out of the weak, as in neighborhood bully. Hey, before the ground war, there was like 200 Palestinians dead, mostly civilians, including a lot of children. Israel one.
Proportional?
But for Israel, it’s not about proportion. Don’t believe for a minute they give a flying fuck what you or I think. It’s about their right to exist and it’s about reputation, as in setting examples. Call my wife a bitch, and I splatter your brains. Everyone else will think twice before calling her anything but good looking.
As long as Israel has this bad ass mindset to demolish anyone and everyone who thinks they don’t have a right to exist, nothing will ever, ever, change. You just can’t kill peoples children, mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, in search of terrorists. All you breed is hate and vengeance. So when you wonder why everyone in the region wants your very existence washed from the earth, look in the mirror, you don’t have the moral high ground. Not anymore, and those bad ass Mossad days are gone, there are not too many Nazis left anymore, and most know better than to screw with your athletes.