Proportionality in all conflicts is to be desired as I have stated many times over many years. War is hell. Hamas knew what it was doing.  It was deliberately trying to provoke a war by a vicious sneak attack in a period of relative stability.

Proportionality is the ideal, but history shows it is seldom achieved. If you deliberately start a horrific war, killing and torturing all kinds of young people and others you had better be prepared to finish the war, win or lose. You have forfeited the right to make the rules. Israel was constantly provoked over many years.

Now the war is on. What a sorrowful thing! Israel, unlike Hamas, gives proper notice when it acts. Hamas knew their own people would reap the whirlwind after October 7. War is hell. It is also publicity which will always create sympathy. Hamas knows the tactic so very well.

Where was proportionality during WWII in the nightly firebombing of Japan, or the bombing of Dresden? The only way to stop wars is to stop provoking wars.

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+ Robert Spencer on the Two State Solution and More. On October 27, 2023 at the David Horowitz Freedom Center’s Restoration Weekend 2023, Robert Spencer, Daniel Greenfield, Daniel Pipes and Frank Gaffney discuss the Hamas-Israel war.

+ Will Hamas ever stop if they are not stopped? See previous also.

+ Natasha Hausdorff – barrister and legal director at the UK Lawyers for Israel Charitable Trust – is the latest guest on The Brendan O’Neill Show. Natasha and Brendan discuss Bob Vylan’s vile chants at Glastonbury, the horrors Israel faces and how the Holocaust is now weaponised against the Jews…. Here

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