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by acdha 812 days ago
Yes, but specifically the Palestinian impact is why it’s such a terrible policy for Israel unless you assume their goal is perpetual war. Most people do not want to kill other people but each innocent killed like this is leaving behind friends, family, and neighbors who will want vengeance and some fraction of them will decide they need to resort to violence because the other mechanisms aren’t being used. Watching this happen has been incredibly depressing as you can pretty much mathematically predict a revenge period measured in decades.
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This assumes they're going to leave enough people alive to even enact vengeance. If they murder everyone, than there's no need to worry about any Gazan revenge; there will be no Gazans.
Technically possible, yes, but that’s increasing the death toll from 33k to 2,300k. I don’t think that’s plausible.
It's very plausible. Keep in mind that from the get-go, the major global powers, (including Russia!) have adopted the mindset of Israel can do no wrong, and we can't criticize them at all

Israel could glass the entire Gaza strip and the reaction would be a slap on the wrist at best.

There's millions of Palestinians living in the West Bank or as refugees abroad, expelled or descended from those expelled in previous rounds of ethnic cleansing. Even if IDF go final solution on the 2 million Palestinians living in Gaza ghetto, this will not be the end of all Palestinians or the Palestinian struggle. See: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_diaspora