...Sure. But that strategy has been failing for over half a century. Might be time to rethink it.
Under the circumstances, there is no other viable and effective option.
Nothing left to do but to raise the stakes and to begin responding so devastatingly disproportionately as to make The Enemy come to the realization that they will be hurt
vastly more than any hurt that they can inflict by initiating such actions - so as to make the people of Rump Palestine come to the realization that they have no choice but to rein-in their own crazies, or continue to suffer such unstoppable and disproportionate losses.
That is how wars are won, and this is, indeed, a war... let us all be clear about that.
So....you continue a failed strategy hoping that next time the results will be different...
That all depends on how you define 'failed strategy'.
If, by that, you mean that retaliation by the IDF, has failed to stop all violence, then, you are, indeed, correct.
If, by that, we view such retaliation, as a measure to contain the savages and to minimize their sorties and their effectiveness, then, you are, indeed, incorrect.
I take the latter view.
...You do know what the definition of insanity is? Doing the same thing over and over thinking that the result will somehow be different...
Adequately covered by tucking under the umbrella of the latter definition.
...If you get too brutal on non-combatants, especially children, the strategy backfires and people become more determined and have nothing left to lose.
Nobody (that I know) is advocating for brutality against children in this context.
However, highly disproportionate retaliation is fast becoming the only practical remedy for the foolhardiness of Hamas and their fellow travelers.
Hamas and related instigating violence is not going to stop until the residents of Rump Palestine come to the realization that they cannot win and that there is less danger to them in reining-in Hamas et al themselves than to continue suffering such disproportionate casualties.
This is a dirty and godless, soul-less business - war always is - so, the harsher the punishment for such terrorist actions, the sooner the war will end.
What was that old line about being cruel, to be kind?
Bullshit, usually, but oftentimes containing a modicum of truth, at the same time.
The residents of Rump Palestine know how to stop this... what is needed now is to complete the job of convincing them that they need to act upon that knowledge.
The near-collapse of Hamas during Gaza War II and their sudden caving-in to a dual control alongside Fatah is proof that the concept works.
