Jimmy Higgins
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You are talking out of both sides of your mouth there.I'm claiming intent, not capability.And if the goal was annihilation, it came up quite a bit short. And it was very very low tech. It was an effective terror attack, but your repeated claims of permanent Holocaust are hyperbole. Even the Germans couldn't manage that.To call this bonkers would be an insult to bonkers. Of course they had the capability on 10/6! They were executing a plan, not doing something off the cuff. Nobody does things on this scale without lots of advance planning unless they have no choice--and an attack is a choice. Looking back we can see preparations going back years.Good question since they lacked the capability on 10/6.Do you think they still have the capability to carry out such an operation?Hamas has explicitly said they intend 10/7 to simply be the tip of the iceberg of their genocide. Turn the other cheek isn't going to work.
Here is a something, why don't you try to respond to what I actually say, instead of asking hypotheticals that you have to know are likely false?Are you saying they are lying when they say they intend to repeat 10/7 until Israel is gone?
It has? Your answer for Israeli "safety" has always been genocide. There. How is that? Wanna play more or actually have a discussion?But your answer for Israeli "safety" has always been appeasement. Israel has had enough of the world saying appeasement is the answer.Of course, my point was regarding Iran, not Hamas. And aiming to keep the number of additional dead Israelis as close to zero as possible.
In my post that you quoted but didn't read, I explicitly stated I really didn't know what the appropriate response is. IDF obviously has all sorts of options available. As I noted, Israel would be in their right to respond. Iran didn't achieve much, but the intent was definitely there to kill Israelis. Something is necessary, but that is an upper Military/Intelligence thing, something I am not privy to being in the know. The IDF stopped taking my calls when they realized I wasn't really Simon Peres. I'd imagine the proper response is surgical, and likely doesn't kill anyone, but hurts Iran a lot.