RobDownSouth
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A more salient analogy might be the USA's use of nuclear bombs as a response to the Japanese invasion of Pearl Harbor. Higher civilian casualty rates at the Japanese target areas but it minimized the loss of life of American soldiers and was therefore deemed an acceptable rate of "collateral damage".I don't think most people believe that. I don't think the Israeli leadership believes that.
But you don't win a war through surgical strikes at the bad people at the top. The only way to beat the Nazis in WW2 was to bomb and kill a lot of Germans. That's war. The Gaza people elected Hamas way back when, and then Hamas kicked out the opposition. You pay the price for the evil people you've picked to lead you. There's no way to take out Hamas without hurting civilians, especially because they launch their rockets from densely populated civilian areas. This is what war is. Israel did not start this war, but it has a right to win it to survive.
The whole thing makes me sick to my stomach, but after what happened on October 7, Israel has no choice but to go after Hamas mercilessly.