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In reply to the discussion: This is what the Nazis did... [View all]bigtree
(86,372 posts)...against civilian centers.
Not really hard to imagine, and perfectly natural, in that realization, to warn against the inevitability.
To most, in the last attack and subsequent retaliation it looked like pure revenge, instead of deterrence, unless that wanton killing was supposed to be the deterrent (which almost everybody knows was the intention).
I don't know, but I'd guess the poster was responding to myriad suggestions that Gaza now needed to be flattened, wiped out to stop Hamas. It's a sentiment expressed all throughout the reactions and responses; not something conjured by those expressing the concern.
I think it's all the more interesting to watch folks safe and secure in this country insist that the inevitable bombing of Gaza in retaliation is intended to eliminate Hamas, as if bombing civilian centers ever eliminated violent resistance born out of past attacks and retaliation. As if attacking population centers in retaliation for terrorist violence ever produced anything but even more individuals bent on violent resistance.
As if that prospect of bombs raining down on Gaza isn't inevitable, and not intended to spark it's own fear.
At the very least, people making these observations are bolstered in their concerns by the actual history of these conflicts. If in fact, this does not come to pass, it will be more an affirmation of the cacophony of concern, than the denials of the risk.
'Reality' is on the side of those paying attention to the very history of past Palestinian/Israeli conflicts, most notably the last instances of terror attacks against Israel and military reprisals against Gaza's population centers.
'Untethered' are the voices ignorant of that past.
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