Comment by jstarfish

> Believing that such acts will end Hamas/terror is profoundly delusional.

This is the apocryphal "pounding them into submission" (or, "display of overwhelming force"). The idea is to break them, and discourage them from thinking to ever try something like this again.

Problem is, you need to make sure they had anything to do with it in the first place. If someone launches a false flag op, you're being trolled into committing genocide against civilians.

I fear they're being played but they've become a schizophrenic dealing with their demons via Howitzer. Paranoia is easily exploited.