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>Finally, an honest question, what would you do? How would you respond in this situation?

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/29/opinion/israel-hamas-ceas...

There are plenty of cases of countries being attacked by terrorists and not responding like Israel has. PKK has carried out acts of terrorism in Turkey. FARC carried out attacks in Colombia for half a century.

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None of those had a massacre like Oct 7 with 1200 dead (and as a proportion of Israeli population count that makes it proportionally more devastating than 9/11 for Israel, not too mention it was also more cold blooded and barbaric in methodology).

A better example is eg Mosul which had a far higher death toll, as well as other Isis warzones.

Plus none of those threats are anything like Gaza (and indeed Jenin) which is 5 minutes drive from Israeli towns and so a far greater persistent threat.

Plus those terrorists aren't part of a pattern of repeated wars by neighbouring countries for the same cause that Israel had to endure since its founding.

... amongst many other differences

Countries being attacked by a sovereign city-state?

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