(October 22, 2023 at 4:28 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote:(October 22, 2023 at 3:46 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Again, the numbers don’t count. Hamas launched a terror campaign, Israel responded with war crimes. If both sides had restricted their attacks to non-civilian targets (police stations, military installations, etc), I’d likely give Hamas the moral edge, given Israel’s abominable treatment of the Palestinians.Also, the asymmetry in how well-equipped the IDF and Hamas are might account for the disparity in their respective body counts. As I've mentioned numerous times, Hamas' own charter has spelled out that their end goal is genocidal. If they had as much weaponry as the IDF, there's no way in Hell Israel would have killed three times as many people as Hamas did.
Since they didn’t, I won’t.
Boru
You know, the Hizbollah in the north is said to be Hamas x 20 (or 30) in terms of capability in the north. I don’t know if the IDF can afford to go into Gaza right now because of that. And that’s why Biden warned his Allie on that while sending aircraft carriers to the region.
So the situation is very asymmetric for Israel as well. I wish there was a way to go back to the Oslo Agreement in 1993

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