[cubefox]

If likewise fighting the Nazis had been stopped because of people calling it a "genocide" the outcome would have been catastrophic.

[wqaatwt]

Hamas doesn’t have tanks, bombers, cruise or ballistic missiles though.

Destroying their capacity to wage war didn’t require blowing up every building in Gaza.

[cubefox]

Unlike the Nazis, Hamas isn't capitulating. If the Nazis hadn't capitulated, the allies wouldn't just have gone home.

[wqaatwt]

That’s true. However Israel is allowing Hamas to maintain some presence and control over Gaza instead of directly occupying it like the allies did.