29/10/2023
Someone asked me today, "What should Israel do?". This is a great question, and I decided to put this in terms of the USA's response to a terrorist attack, but taking population and military might into consideration.
First, we have to adjust for population.
1 out of 5,200 people were killed in Israel (1,800) during the attacks. In the USA that would have been 67,000 people killed in the USA using the same population model.
When 9/11 happened 3,000 people lost thier lives, and the United States went to war on terrorism. It's estimated that 4.5 million people have died as a result to the war on terrorism. That is what the USA did for 3,000 people. Could you imagine what our response would be is 67,000 people lost their lives in a single terrorist attack?
Israel is claiming that 100's of people have been kidnapped, tortured and an unknown number have not been found. I am going to give this a number of 300 for now. In relation to population, that would be 11,000 people, US citizens kidnapped, tortured, beheaded, mutilated, (you get my point?) and an unknown number killed.
You think Israel's response is irrational? You think that they should cease fire or "hold back" because of civilians?
Let me ask you, the US citizen. If we lost 80,000 people in a single terrorist attack would you be in the streets protesting the US military? Would you be calling for a cease fire? But do you know what would happen?
Their would be assemblies in our country giving praise to Allah and the death of these US citizens, they would be chanting "God is great" because of our Freedom of Speech laws, there is nothing we could do about it. It would expose how poorly our immigration system has been ran and it would show society just how poorly we have managed our national pride, our patriotic oath.
So... what do I think Israel should do? Well, if 3,000 people lead to the killing of 4.5 million people after 9/11, in proportion to what the United States response was is what Israel should do. What would that look like in the middle east? Scorched earth policy. Level all of Gaza, make an example of Hamas and the world will know how Israel deals with terrorist, because... that is what the USA would do if we were in their shoes.