>> Israel believes they are demonstrating restraint

From the section of the ICJ ruling dealing with dehumanizing language used by Israeli officials:

> "I have released all restraints . . . You saw what we are fighting against. We are fighting human animals"

-- Mr Yoav Gallant, Defence Minister of Israel

I think that the statement by the head of the military that Israel is acting without any restraints is incompatible with the idea that Israel believes it is demonstrating restraint.

My point is to make it clear that it was obviously a rhetorical speech rather than some ongoing military policy during the war. You know perfectly well what I meant by restraint.

After 9/11, the united states president at least tried to say "hey not all muslims, alright?"

Not to mention these guys would have heard of the absolute cruel and unusual torture directed at the female civilians before the rest of the world.

Ok but they haven't literally released all restraints because no nuclear weapons have been used.

Why would they use nuclear weapons on territory they intend to annex and settle?

Faster than starving the gazans to death

Modern nukes don't have lasting radiation fallout

Imagine making excuses for breaking the nuclear taboo. That is the level this discourse is at.

You have sources for that?

From everything I’ve studied all super bombs (hydrogen fusion bombs) are also fission bombs. Since it is a chain of different kind of explosion stages that finally get the fusion reaction started.

First convention explosives then fission then fusion.

If they put it on Hamas, the radiation fallout would hit Israel pretty hard depending on winds.

It would fuck up Middle East in an awful way. Pretty much guarantee the Middle East Muslim countries ganging together to wipe out Israel completely.

Things like this are bad: https://apnews.com/article/us-israel-gaza-arms-hamas-bypass-...

More public denouncement of what Israel is doing.

Get the Department of State to start sanctioning heads of state of Israel that are actively calling for a genocide.

He's effectively done nothing other than "handling it in private."

> What do you expect him to do?

At least as much as Ronald Regan: https://www.upi.com/Archives/1982/08/12/A-shocked-and-outrag...

A major difference is that Israel instigated the first large scale attacks in the 1982 War, whereas Hamas instigated the ongoing war.

This is only the interpretation if you ignore the various killings of palestinians and journalists prior to October 7th at the hands of IDF: https://cpj.org/reports/2023/05/deadly-pattern-20-journalist...

Or when Israel bombed Gaza two months after the previous cease fire: https://abcnews.go.com/International/israel-bombs-gaza-city-...

I am not so sure. I believe Israel only exists by the mercy of support from their Allies. The minute they lose that support Israel is doomed. The country is surrounded by enemies on all sides. Sure their military could win a conventional war with their nukes against any of their neighbors. But on the long term a small country with a small population and limited natural resources needs friends to run an economy big enough to support the huge military it needs to defend itself. And Israel is running out of friends fast. Sympathy for Israel in the West is surely declining at lightning speed with the current situation, I would not be surprised if this conflict is the start of the end of the country

Israel seems to be optimizing for the short win at the cost of losing who they are.

Granted Hamas attacked them first but their actions give Jews worldwide a bad rep.

What is nuts is that the Zionists have convinced everyone that that they speak for all Jews. I have so much respect for the activists in Israel that must face immense social and political pressure.

All the US has to do is: nothing. Stop sending over tank shells [1], Fighter jets and attack helicopters [2], deploying aircraft carriers [3] and stop vetoing UN Security Council resolutions trying to impose a ceasefire [4]

1. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/dec/09/biden-admini... 2. https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-01-25/ty-article/.p... 3. https://www.voanews.com/a/us-aircraft-carrier-to-remain-in-m... 4. https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-un-resolution...