Israel needs bigger war aims:
Defeat the will if the people to ever wage war again!
That’s the proper goal. It will save more lives in the long run than merely defeating ham ass and rescuing the hostages.
Towards that proper larger less deadly in the long term goal, Israel’s extremely hygienic minimization of civilian casualties is actually hurting. Too FEW civilians are currently dying to ensure that the remainder’s minds will be changed and the next wars (plural) avoided.
Note carefully that I’m arguing for more civilian casualties now so that there are many fewer civilian casualties across the many more additional wars that will be fought if this better war aim is not achieved. In the long run, fewer gaza civilians will die, if just enough die now to permanently change the remainders’ minds.
I understand your argument very well. And I concur completely. The only way to a real peace with these savages is to utterly destroy their will to fight. Leaving these so called “civilians” alone only guarantees the next generation of psychopathic savages will rise again and be even worse.
So as distasteful as it is, they must all be utterly and completely crushed. It must be so brutal that even if four generations from now some nut ball so much as hints at doing it again his own people tear him to pieces.
L