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You wake up, feeling like you've been here before but cannot place the feeling. It's 10/7/23. The organization dedicated to extermination of all Jews and destruction of Israel has just inflicted unspeakable tortures, rapes, and murders on Israeli Jews. The blood hasn't quite dried on the ground. For some reason, the universe has conspired to put you directly in charge of Bibi and Israel's military.
First, answer this question: does Israel have the right to use deadly force to fight Hamas? If your answer is "no", say it and leave.
For those who do accept that Israel can use force against a terrorist group dedicated to its destruction and extermination of all Jews:
Second, step by specific step, what would you allow Israel to do to fight Hamas, and what should its goal be?
Third, articulate why it would work.
No cowardly generalities used to avoid tough questions. No redirection or deflection. No blabbing about "but the West Bank." Hamas isn't fighting for the West Bank, and I don't need to know you to know you don't believe that if a country has ever done wrong, others should be free to massacre its citizens.
So if you don't think Israel should just accept that Hamas gets to murder, then for the love of all that is holy do what you've been avoiding this whole time and lay out a plan. Describe in detail what Israel should have done to destroy Hamas or render it irrelevant. Explain why it would work.
For example, do you think Israel shouldn't bomb and instead send its soldiers into the shooting gallery that is Gaza, one of the densest places on Earth? Should they only use certain bombs and not others? If so, which bombs and why? Would they be able to achieve the same results? Etc etc etc. Stuff like that. Lay out a plan.
I ask because all I've seen in the last year, from the anti-Israel crowd, is a bunch of purely one-sided piecemeal condemnations of anything and everything Israel has done in its fight against Hamas. Sometimes I agree. The idea of killing 140 people in a refugee camp to get 2 Hamas commanders is monstrous. Blocking aid for as long they did was monstrous. Ok. But I'm talking about people who say "of course Israel has a right to defend itself" as a disclaimer, but then end up saying that anything Israel is reported to have done is wrong, on a case-by-case basis.
Well, tell me, what could Israel do to fight back against Hamas?
Let's throw out these phony venires of moral superiority. There none here. Every single answer - even the monstrous and anti-semitic answer of "of course Israel has no right to defend itself!" - means arguing for a course of action in which innocents die.
So, tell me, leader of Israel, what should Israel do with respect to Hamas?
NOTE: this is not about the long-term planning for peace. This is just what to do re: Hamas, right from 10/7.
First, answer this question: does Israel have the right to use deadly force to fight Hamas? If your answer is "no", say it and leave.
For those who do accept that Israel can use force against a terrorist group dedicated to its destruction and extermination of all Jews:
Second, step by specific step, what would you allow Israel to do to fight Hamas, and what should its goal be?
Third, articulate why it would work.
No cowardly generalities used to avoid tough questions. No redirection or deflection. No blabbing about "but the West Bank." Hamas isn't fighting for the West Bank, and I don't need to know you to know you don't believe that if a country has ever done wrong, others should be free to massacre its citizens.
So if you don't think Israel should just accept that Hamas gets to murder, then for the love of all that is holy do what you've been avoiding this whole time and lay out a plan. Describe in detail what Israel should have done to destroy Hamas or render it irrelevant. Explain why it would work.
For example, do you think Israel shouldn't bomb and instead send its soldiers into the shooting gallery that is Gaza, one of the densest places on Earth? Should they only use certain bombs and not others? If so, which bombs and why? Would they be able to achieve the same results? Etc etc etc. Stuff like that. Lay out a plan.
I ask because all I've seen in the last year, from the anti-Israel crowd, is a bunch of purely one-sided piecemeal condemnations of anything and everything Israel has done in its fight against Hamas. Sometimes I agree. The idea of killing 140 people in a refugee camp to get 2 Hamas commanders is monstrous. Blocking aid for as long they did was monstrous. Ok. But I'm talking about people who say "of course Israel has a right to defend itself" as a disclaimer, but then end up saying that anything Israel is reported to have done is wrong, on a case-by-case basis.
Well, tell me, what could Israel do to fight back against Hamas?
Let's throw out these phony venires of moral superiority. There none here. Every single answer - even the monstrous and anti-semitic answer of "of course Israel has no right to defend itself!" - means arguing for a course of action in which innocents die.
So, tell me, leader of Israel, what should Israel do with respect to Hamas?
NOTE: this is not about the long-term planning for peace. This is just what to do re: Hamas, right from 10/7.