The only nation not allowed to retaliate for a major terror attack

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26. Hyperbolic straw man fallacy. They're allowed to retaliate.

The US retaliated mightily after 9/11. There were a tiny pacifist minority saying that was the wrong course - but no one expected that there wouldn't be retaliation. Where a greater number started to disagree was over the proportionality or the method.

When we continued to retaliate for 9/11 in 2003 by attacking Iraq and turning it into a 20-year bloodbath, did you question that strategy? I bet you did.

Israel is perceived as the stronger of these 2 sides. There's also an assumption that they are more "civilized" side, and that they should adhere to international law. Perhaps that's because we expect Judaism to guide moral choices?

In the face of Hamas' terrorist atrocities and murder, that goes out the window. That's human nature. I expect Israel to drive Gaza into the sea, and I think that's exactly how most human societies have reacted to intolerable provocations since the beginning of time.