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Proportionality in war is a synonym for lethal stalemate if not defeat.
When two sides go at it with roughly equal forces, weapons, and strategies, the result is often a horrific deadlock — like the four years of toxic trench warfare on the Western Front of World War I that resulted in 12 million fatalities.
The purpose of war is to defeat the enemy as quickly as possible with the least number of causalities, thereby achieving political ends.
So, every side aims to find superior strategies, tactics, weapons, and manpower to ensure as great a disproportionate advantage as possible.
Hamas is no exception.
Its savage pre-civilizational strategy to defeat Israel hinged on doing disproportionate things Israel either cannot or will not do.
First, Hamas spent a year planning a preemptive butchery spree inside Israel. Its ruthless murdering focused on “soft targets” like unarmed elderly women, children, and infants, mostly asleep at a time of peace and holiday.
Second, it sought to collectively shock Israel into paralysis by the sheer horror of decapitating civilians, burning babies, mass raping, and mutilating bodies.
Another apparent aim of such premodern barbarity was to blame Israel’s “occupation” for turning Gazans into veritable monsters, with hopes of derailing the renewed Abraham Accords.
Third, the gunmen took more than 240 hostages back with them to Gaza.
Again, that was a disproportionate tactic designed to meter out the release of captives in exchange for “pauses” and “cease-fires” to save Hamas.
Additionally, Hamas made implicit threats of gruesome executions of captives unless Israel ceased their retaliation on October 7.
Fourth, all the while, Hamas shot rockets into Israel, more than 7,000 in total, and all aimed at civilians.
Not one launch was preceded by dropping leaflets or sending text messages to Israeli civilians to vacate the intended target areas — a protocol often used by the Israel Defense Forces.
The unapologetic aim was to kill thousands of Israelis at random and disproportionately.
In fact, in just the last four weeks, Hamas has launched more than twice as many rockets into Israel as Nazi Germany managed to launch V-2s into Britain in five months.
Fifth, Hamas sought to create a multibillion-dollar tunnel city beneath Gaza. The labyrinth’s sole purpose was to stockpile weapons and ensure safe havens for terrorists to shoot rockets and regroup after their terrorist missions.
Sixth, the subterranean headquarters of Hamas elites, along with weapons depots, were strategically placed under hospitals, mosques, and schools to “shield” them from Israeli attacks.
The expectation was that the IDF would be hesitant to target such “civilian” and “humanitarian” areas in a way Hamas never would.
Seventh, Hamas forced the civilians of Gaza to remain in the street fighting. They often shot those who resisted.
They also killed Gazans who fled the city. Hamas sought to increase civilian fodder as collateral damage from Israeli attacks. Such deaths were to be broadcast worldwide to win sympathy for Hamas terrorists and force a cease-fire.
Eighth, Hamas bragged that it could repeat strategies 1-7 endlessly on the supposition Israel would tire, the world would turn against the Jewish state, and it, at last, could murder enough Jews to end Israel altogether.
Israel, in turn, seeks its own disproportionate response to defeat Hamas.
First, it seeks to single out and kill the actual Hamas terrorists, and especially the 2,000 or so killers of October 7.
Second, it tries to warn civilians to flee anywhere that Hamas masses. Just as Hamas wants its own civilians killed for propaganda purposes, so Israel seeks to avoid killing them.
Third, by targeting Hamas and warning civilians to keep their distance, Israel does not deny that there will be collateral damage.
But it hopes to convince the world that any civilian deaths are mostly the fault of Hamas and not the IDF.
And to the degree that Gaza City is left in rubble, Israel wishes to remind its enemies that the wages of murdering Jewish infants, unfortunately, will be a disproportionate response, whose full effects will deter any future attack.
Fourth, Israel understands that a country of 9-10 million is facing a virulently hostile 500 million-person Arab Middle East. The United Nations is on the side of Hamas. Immigrants from the Middle East have hijacked a now antisemitic Europe. Israel’s sole patron, the United States, is buffeted by a hard-left new Democratic Party that is not a reliable partner.
The result is that Israel still cannot conduct a fully disproportionate war without endangering its source of military resupply in the United States and a wider conflict with the Islamic world.
And so, the war continues.
Hamas strives for a more disproportionate terrorist agenda to prolong the war. And Israel strives for a more disproportionate retaliation to end it.
The anger arises at Israel mostly because it is Jewish, and thus far, its conventional disproportionality is proving more effective than the terrorist disproportionality of Hamas.
Israel has to continue to enhance its defense industries. Good as they are, they still depend on U.S. help, and this is Israel’s great weakness. It has to follow the orders of the American president, regardless of who that is. And as often as not it is an antisemitic incompetent who would like to see Israel deleted from the map.
Once Israel can provide all of its own military needs, including bunker-busting bombs and the aircraft that can deliver them to the Mullahs of Iran, without any help from any other nation, it will be able to prosecute a war proportionately, or even, if it wishes, disproportionately.
Netanyahu realized as long ago as the 1990’s when he was the finance minister that Israel needed a free market economy in order to be rich enough to defend itself. It’s well on its way there, but it has a way to go. May the G0d of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob grant it the time to get there.
Thanks Lightbringer!
Netanyahu should tell that pisher, Jihad Joe, to go fall down some stairs.
Did you see the stairs on Air force One have been shortened in the hopes that the decrepit old criminal won’t have to fall as far?
Pedo Joe can’t finish a sentence, walks like a zombie, can’t tell time, can’t use eating utensils, zones out and just stares off into space, and soils himself. He has stage four Alzheimer’s.
They attempt to cripple Israel with standards no country can ever survive. These are made up standards that no other country in the world adheres to.
Where is the pause in the Syrian civil war or Ukraine? Where are the demonstrations for a free Tibet? What is the body count of civilians killed in the Afghan war or Iraq?
You see, it’s all a fraud.
Or the low key civil war in Cameroon? Nobody even knows it exists.
Israel should continue the war without any pauses or ceasefires that will allow Hamas to rebuild The chances of most of the hostages remaining alive are slim as we have seen evidence of Hamas executing hostages in Gaza
Israel’s response has not only been proportional but also well within the Geneva Convention. ALL repeat ALL deaths and injuries are 100% the responsibility of Hamas. That is exactly what the Geneva Convention states.
Israel cannot stop until every hostage is freed, every terrorist is dead and there is no Islamofascist infrastructure standing
That would be great but those monsters are already murdering hostages, usually pretty girl;s. I hope Israel rescues as many as possible while killing as many Hamas Paleosimians as possible.
Gun owners who want to show support for Israel can do so by purchasing the IMI (Israel Military Industries) brand of ammo, available at Midway.com
Per Shooting Illustrated……https://www.shootingillustrated.com/content/review-imi-ammunition-1/:
“Israel Military Industries (IMI), established in 1933, is one of many companies looking to increase its presence in the American market. The company specializes in munitions for land, air and naval combat weaponry. It is currently the sole source for the ammunition used by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), and IMI’s products have been qualified with the U.S. military and various NATO nations. IMI is owned and operated by the government of Israel, and it employs nearly 3,000 people.”
I just purchased a box of 115 Gr MM die cut HPs and a box of the 77 Gr HPBT Match. Very accurate reasonably priced. These are specialty rounds that usually come 20 to a box with most manufacturers. IMI has the 9MM die cuts at 50 rds per box and the 77gr at 30 rds per box each for just a couple bucks more.
Load up. We are going to need it. BTW, I do not work for Midway or the Israeli govt.
“Proportionality” is simply a recipe for not achieving victory, a concept apparently no longer in fashion in the West.
It went out of style in the Korean War.
The only victory America has had since then except for when President Trump had ISIS wiped out.
Never, but it doesn’t matter: within a few hours, Israel and Hamas will announce a hostage deal and cease fire–1 Israeli for 3 Arabs–for a total of 50-70 Israeli women and children and 3x as many Arabs. This will be followed by a five day “cease-fire” which is not a cease fire, its an end to the war–without freeing the hostages and without destroying Hamas. The War is over and Jewry, lead by obtuse leftist Israelis, has lost and lost badly. What will follow will even uglier: humiliated and demoralized, Jews will pour out of Israel and diaspora Jews will exit Judaism at an even fast pace than we have been. Israel will be dismantled and handed over the Arabs. Islam, having dispensed with the Saturday people will, with the help its Marxist allies in the West, move on to the Sunday people.
Whatever happens, do NOT allow Israelis into the US when Israel is evacuated.
Well, that was the biggest load of meandering rubbish that I’ve read here in a while.
Hollywood Halfwit Richard Gere once said WAR HAS NEVER SOLVED ANYTHING All except for making America a Free and Independant Nation Which Biden the Globalist/Traitor wants to end as he sells out to China
And the War of 1812, the War for Texas Independence, the Mexican American War and WWII. 🙂
I had a Father and Three Uncles(All Deceased)who were in WW II my father survived the Battle of the Coral Sea lost his ship the Lexington one of my Uncles was in the Seabees
Its been “proportional’ ever since WW-II … the last war the USA won. The USA had the capability to defeat N. Korea, N. Vietnam, Afghanistan but chose not to use it. The US has the capability to stop the invasion from Mexico and chooses not to use it.