Comment by settrans
5 days ago
A) It's hard to argue that the war in Gaza was indiscriminate when the IDF achieved the highest combatant-to-civilian casualty ratio in the history of urban combat, despite Hamas hiding in tunnels underneath population centers.
B) When soldiers flood across your border from a neighboring polity by the thousands, it would be an abdication of sovereignty not to defend against that immediate threat, regardless of the enemy's funding sources.
> highest combatant-to-civilian casualty ratio
Very hard to believe.
Let's ask the world's leading expert in urban warfare, then:
https://www.newsweek.com/israel-has-created-new-standard-urb...
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/johnwspencer2018_israel-has-d...
Note the falsification of Hamas casualty figures:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/hamas-quietly-drops-thousands-dea...
https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/how-hama...
It's actually quite believable when you define a combatant as males aged 13+