> It’s very natural to want to return the same in kind

They didn't return the same in kind. Compare the "stats" of Oct 7 vs what Israel did over the next 2 years.

If you think that what happened on Oct 7 justified such a response, then you should shudder at the thought of what is justified in a merely proportional response to Israel's response. Proportionality being the foundation of justice and all that.

> return the same in kind

  "What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbor. That is the whole Torah; the rest is the explanation of this — go and study it!"

https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/689306/jewish...

exactly. wanting to nuke the place is an absolute normal response to what the Palestininans did on 7 Oct. They livestreamed their joy of r_pe, enslavement and gruesome killings. Even the nazis, to which the Oct-7-abaters are never tired of comparing the Israelis to, had the decency to not openly advertise their atrocities.

Murder is bad. Still, killing 200 people is not equivalent to killing 2 million people.