And astute observation of the moral hazard of accusing Israel of perpetrating a genocide in Gaza. Such rhetoric will cause other countries in the future to care less about civilian deaths. Those countries will be accused of genocide, whether they go to the trouble of avoiding one, or not.
Israel could easily have dropped 10,000 bombs and cleaned house and turned all of Gaza into a parking lot. That’s what almost every army in the world would have done with 251 of their people being held in holes underground.
What would we have done if 10,000 Mexicans had crossed the border and murdered 40,000 Americans in San Diego? That’s what it would be proportionally, 40,000, and taken a few thousand of our children from San Diego hostage and held them in holes under Tijuana for hundreds of days.
You think Tijuana would still be here? Of course not.
I used to be a football player. But in war as in football, what’s the most important thing on offense? Surprise.
And Israel every single day relinquishes offensive surprise, tells Hamas exactly where they are going in order to preserve and protect innocent Palestinian civilian lives. And it results in the deaths of hundreds of Israeli boys and girls.
Think about that, Israel has sacrificed over 600 of its own sons and daughters in order to preserve and protect the lives of the enemy’s civilian population. What army in the world would ever do that?
Here’s why it’s really important that we reserve our ultimate claims for real genocides: In the future, if the country that did more to preserve innocent civilian life in the most complicated urban war zone that’s ever been constructed is still being accused on college campuses and in the international courts of the ultimate crime of crimes, of genocide, then why would any other Western army in the future take the measures that Israel took endangering the lives of its own sons and daughters to preserve the enemies civilian population if they're just going to be hauled into court anyway?
This is the real danger. If you're going to bring in Western armies that follow the rules, that engage in the complicated cost benefit analysis that international law and the proportionality doctrine require of armies in the field, if you're going to still haul them into court and accuse them of genocide, you’re going see a much more dangerous world in the future where armies just throw the rules out the window because it doesn't matter anyway.