The problem is two fold: one an idolatry of moral purity, and the foolish belief that people will automatically reciprocate when they actually see any decency as weakness.

I further believe that Israel’s nuclear deterence is an empty threat. First, US Jews have deserted the cause. More important Israel is a hard-left secular state. The ideology is totally against such primitive things as retaliation.

Officially or through rebellion it will not happen, especially, if there is any time lag in response. Someone will not do it, and I personally know how many checks are built into these systems, and one person can stop it.

Israel will not sacrifice its self-satisfaction to save future generations from duties that can be done now, but from weakness are not.

“The overwhelming majority of these “terrorists” are a conglomerate of useless, unproductive, dimwits saturating Israeli prisons and costing the state enormous amounts to sustain them.”

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Exactly! Just as in a different scenario in the USA except magnified about a few hundred thousand times BUT prisons MUST be kept full to keep big business prison owners in action as well as keep unemployment rates down. Imagine the unemployment rate if prisoners who are there for little reason were released AND prison workers who would then not be needed AND US forces abroad were not at war abroad?