And see how such a blatant over-response makes Israel look in U.S. and other nations' eyes...
If that's what it takes to burn Hamas down to the ground, well, so be it.
...They make NO effort to minimize casualties...
You do not know this for a fact.
...they try to MAXIMIZE CIVILIAN CASUALTIES, because their entire hope is that the Palestinian people themselves will turn on their own resistance...
You do not know this for a fact.
...And every few years, the genocide will have to be renewed...
There is no genocide occurring there.
If it was genocide, it would be a one-time shot, with no Palestinians left alive, afterwards.
...It will never end until Palestinian national goals are reached.
Then it will never end.
But I agree that the current state of affairs cannot be sustained indefinitely.
That is why the stronger of the two will move to cut the Gordian Knot.
It will not be genocide - it will not be slaughter - even Israel's allies will not accep that.
But it WILL be Eviction and Expulsion and Dispersal.
There are a great many who believe that that is impractical or impossible.
I don't blame them.
But it's also logical.
And the only way out of the present situation, which leaves Israel intact, and with defensible borders.
Far stranger and far more brutal things have happened, within Living Memory.
Should the Israelis set their mind to such an approach, there is no one to stop them.
And it will have the practical effect of (a) leaving the Palestinians alive and (b) getting them out of the way.
After 66 years of haggling and fighting, it appears to be the only thing left untried, other than outright slaughter, which nobody wants to see.
Every so often, History serves-up a Surprise, and a substantive Paradigm Shift.
Both logic and instinct tell me that we're fast approaching such a juncture.