Disproportionate? The Lie That Fuels Terror

[rangerrebew]

Disproportionate? The Lie That Fuels Terror
Aug 6, 2025, 10:25 AM
 
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From the UN to CNN, a Dangerous Narrative Has Taken Hold — That Israel’s Military Response to Hamas Is “Disproportionate.”

But what would true proportionality look like?

Would it mean Israeli soldiers storming into Gaza, raping teenagers in front of their families, beheading babies, setting families on fire, Dragging grandmothers in their pajamas out of their beds and gleefully filming the carnage? Would it mean targeting concertgoers, burning children alive, mutilating bodies, and dragging them through the streets to cheering crowds?

Of course not. Israel would never do this.

This is what Hamas — and Palestinians who supported them — did on October 7.

And yet, the world demands restraint from the one country acting in self-defense — not only on behalf of its own citizens, but on behalf of civilization itself. What other nation is asked to endure a slaughter of its people and respond with “measured force”?

Western Hypocrisy Has a Body Count

https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/disproportionate-the-lie-that-fuels-terror/

[The_Reader_David]

I rather like the way the article makes the point:  take the misunderstanding of proportionality in warfare that those attacking Israel always start with and push it to its logical conclusion.

Proportionality in warfare has nothing to do with tit-for-tat retaliation, and everything to do with whether the force used is proportionate to the military value of the objective.  If you're taking fire from a sniper's nest on top of a building, blowing off the top of the building is a proportionate response, leveling the entire neighborhood that includes the building is not.

[berdie]

I rather like the way the article makes the point:  take the misunderstanding of proportionality in warfare that those attacking Israel always start with and push it to its logical conclusion.

Proportionality in warfare has nothing to do with tit-for-tat retaliation, and everything to do with whether the force used is proportionate to the military value of the objective.  If you're taking fire from a sniper's nest on top of a building, blowing off the top of the building is a proportionate response, leveling the entire neighborhood that includes the building is not.

So what do you do when the entire neighborhood is populated by snipers?

[Cyber Liberty]

So what do you do when the entire neighborhood is populated by snipers?

That's when you lay waste to the entire neighborhood.  Like in Gaza.