What “plausible deniability”?
If they spent two hours killing everyone in Gaza, it’d be over before anyone could do anything about it. And then what? Nobody’s going to war with a nuclear power in revenge for Gazans. Bibi just stops visiting Brooklyn and nothing happens.
But they don’t do that. The Jews of Israel bleed and die to save the lives of Gazans who hate them. I wouldn’t, but they do.
Israel isn’t “bombing stuff into oblivion”, they’re doing two things:
Attacking subterranean structures with ground-penetrating (aka “2000 pound”) bombs, and
Clearing a one-mile cordon along the border of structures so that Hamas attackers can’t do what they did on Oct 8, which was train and amass along the border fence in secret, hidden among the buildings and blended in with the populace.
If your army has to cross a mile of open ground to attack your fence, it’s a lot more obvious when they start. One of the reasons they succeeded in “surprising” Israel is that they just were there right by the fence, for years, until it seemed “normal.” With the buildings gone, they can’t do that.
But then why commit any ground troops at all?
If they just wanted to wipe out Gaza they’d have done it on Oct 8th. Could hardly take more than an hour.
You really do need to call someone for this, if this is a thermostat valve on a radiator you’re going to burn yourself
The point is that there are beds that nobody are using while people are forced to sleep on the ground.
If you let a guy sleep on it, then you can't sell it. Who would buy it? The bed isn't "not being used", it's not being used as a bed.
It's about resources not being used as efficiently as they could be
There's nothing inefficient about this allocation of resources.
"I'm going to rob your house and shoot all your family in 2 hrs okay?"
They're not going to rob it; they're going to fucking bomb it, to achieve a military objective in a theater of war.
It really sucks that your house is in a theater of war! It's likely to be destroyed by the army you're at war with. War has really unfortunate knock-on effects; I recommend not starting a war of extermination against your neighbors.
Plus, so many kids and families died under these bombs and found cut up under rubbles because Israel doesn't even do that any more.
They still do it; it's just that Palestinians would rather die and kill their entire families in Israeli bombing than preserve life. Palestinians believe their lives are without value unless they're dying to kill Jews.
The only explanation for why Palestinians continue to huddle under bombs they're warned are coming is that they believe human life, including their own, is valueless. It's a sick culture, a death cult, and Israel is defending itself against it.
You absolutely could evacuate your house in an hour; Israel gives weeks. The huddle under the bombs regardless because they wish to die.
But they don't have to drop flyers at all! Indeed they probably shouldn't, in the hopes of catching Hamas by surprise. But even after Oct 7th they're trying as hard as they practically can to keep civilian casualties to a minimum even though they could end the war against Hamas a lot faster, and with fewer Israeli casualties, if they didn't.
Israeli Jews are bleeding in the streets to keep Gazans safe, and their repayment is unabated, universal antisemitism among Gazans. Incredible. Is there a more ungrateful people in existence than the Palestinians?
No, they're still doing it. The flyers have been on social media, even.
What was ever the value of Twitter as a brand? They're not in the T-shirt business.
I think if you want to understand racism, you can't understand it as the failure to have certain pieces of knowledge. Racists generally aren't unaware that people experience suffering when they're held down or held back from their appropriate station in life.
What racists generally believe, if you're trying to be maximally charitable to the views of racists (ugh), is that human suffering also comes from pushing people into societal roles that are above their station. The individual so pushed suffers, and society suffers for having "the wrong people" in important roles. For instance, that's the view that held that slavery for Black Americans was good for them.
I think a racist in that strain would play the Detroit game and not be convinced, since the game likely doesn't address that position at all.
Israel should have access to anything they want to eliminate their enemies, because they're our ally.
Diplomacy is literally rewarding your allies and punishing your enemies.
Because the fascists are the ones who will tell you which truths are “disinformation.”