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legendary_zell posted...

I'm very worried by people who seem angry at the idea that there should be any limits on the response by Israel here. What would NOT be justified in your minds? So far, I've seen support for killing orders of magnitude more civilians, more displacement, more imprisonment, more annexation, cutting off food and energy, and more apartheid in general.

Yes, terrorist attacks warrant a response, what Hamas did is evil, but seems like this course of action leads to either 1. A worse version of the unstable status quo before this war or 2. Total suppression and dispossession of Palestinians.

I think the only limit is indescriminate bombing, a "kill them all" attitude. Israel should make their best effort to target enemy combatants only. Mistakes are tragic but so long as they're mistakes they will be overlooked in all but the worst cases.

The destruction of the Hamas-run government, occupation of their territory, and capture or death of all enemy combatants is something that will and must happen. There will be collateral damage, both within bystanders and hostages.

It is total suppression of the region. The only other options are to 1) tolerate what they did and let it happen again, or 2) to kill them all down to the last man and salt the earth so that nobody can take up their cause. And I'll tell you, within Israel, you'll have far, far more people calling for #2 than #1.