“Something Hitler didn’t know about the Brits is that eventually they’d surrender ~ same with the French ~ just a matter of waiting them out.”
Alternatively - something us Brits understood over 70 years ago that Israel and America STILL haven’t figured out yet (despite both having ample opportunity to get it) is that if you want the politicians and the history books to declare you to have the moral upper hand you must ALWAYS let the other guy take the first shot. You make the truce and make darned sure everyone sees him break it. And, make darned sure everyone sees that his attack was *totally* unprovoked.
The history books will unequivocally state over and over again that whenever a FOREIGN STATE launches an unprovoked attack, everyone will accept that any response by the victim state, no matter how devastating, is legitimate.
In the Israel/Palestine debate it’s all gone wooly. Palestine is not a foreign state. It’s seen as part of Israel by the rest of the world. It’s occupied by Israel, it’s militarily contained by Israel, and it’s blockaded by Israel, and for those reasons Israel can no more nuke Palestine than England could’ve nuked IRA heartlands.
This is precisely why Israel, not Palestine, needs to totally change the terms of the game by doing the last thing the islamists want or expect. Give them their nationhood. Nukes can be pointed at Iran without anyone crying foul, and on the exact same basis they could also be pointed at Palestine.
IF it’s a nation state.
Really small nukes though ~