Proportionality (you may not take more lives than your attackers would...as virtually all Israeli strikes are counterattacks after failed Palestinan attacks, they are not living up to this requirement).
Except that proportionality
actually is
Proportionality
The anticipated benefits of waging a war must be proportionate to its expected evils or harms.
and
An attack or action must be intended to help in the military defeat of the enemy; it must be an attack on a military objective, and the harm caused to civilians or civilian property must be proportional and not excessive
in relation to the concrete and direct military advantage anticipated.
Not numbers vs numbers
Prospect of success (Israel has done the same thing for decades without ever really putting an end to these attacks. Staying the course will do what it has always done. I wonder what spending the money of food and medicine for Palestinians that they've spend killing Palestinians would do?)
Probably the same thing that most all the money that goes to the Palestinians would do. They would use it for war.
The only prospect of success it to totally defeat the enemy. (Or else cease to exist)
Protecting non-combatants (Israel kills more non-combatants than Hamas does, by a large margin)
You're still refusing to answer a question that I posed to you directly. That is a sign to me that you are less interested in a mutually beneficial discussion than you are in selling your political ideal.
When the enemy hides behind the innocent that might happen. Israel could wipe them out entirely if they really wanted to, and it has been shown numerous times that they are making huge efforts to keep innocent loss of life to a minimum.
What was the question? The numbers vs numbers? I don't know, and it changes everyday, and does not really have a bearing on this argument. What "political ideal" am I "selling"?
I don't recall, I've read a lot about this tragedy from both sides. What was it about?
Repost
"Thank you Netanyahu and may God give us more [people] like you to destroy Hamas!”
What’s this? The ravings of a fundamentalist Jewish settler in Gush Etzion? Congratulations from a Christian Zionist hunkered down in his bomb shelter somewhere in the Deep South?
Actually, no. It’s a Twitter message sent out by Azza Sami, who writes for the Egyptian newspaper Al-Ahram. Her sentiments are widely shared in Egypt."
Middle-East Meets Middle-Earth | William Kilpatrick | First Things
I do not believe that Israel will, with this occupation, put an end to terror attacks from Hamas, no. The end result, years from now, will be more terrorists who grew up witnessing Israelis kill their friends, neighbors and relatives.
I hope you are wrong, and if Israel gets a sound victory and actual support from the rest of the world, I think you will be wrong.
