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It's not a question of rights to self defense. Do they have the right to counterattack and kill people that were not involved in the fighting, in response to similar actions against them?
Counterattacking is not defense, though. It's attack.
edit: Thinking about this further, I would classify defense as any activity that degrades an attackers ability to hurt you. If someone throws a punch at you and you break their arm, they can no longer hurt you with that arm. Your "attack" was a form of "defense".
However, when your attack does nothing to degrade the enemy's ability to hurt you, is it defense? I would argue no. It's something else, perhaps revenge. Which is not defense.
Someday they’re going to put 2 and 2 together and realize that they have created an enemy factory inside their borders, and that enemy factory is surrounded by other countries that will keep supplying it with weapons. Right now they’re in Gaza slaughtering hundreds and galvanizing millions against them.
Perfect political scenario for fascism. A constant, ever-present, enemy to use and consolidate power.
Yeah that's why they allow hamas to exist. You think a country with a multi billion dollar military industry can't successfully keep tabs on a few hundred thousand at most?
No, they allow it to happen so they have an existential enemy. Obliterate Palestine and dissonance the few remaining and suddenly then all these displaced perks are creating cells in other countries so now the enemy is any Islamic person.
That's the difference between self defense and an eye for an eye.
If they punch you and you break their arm and run away, that's a slam dunk case of self defense.
If they punch you and you kill their mother, well...
Unfortunately considering the long history of the conflict and the obscene hostility on both fronts (they probably have good reasons to be fair), the second scenario seems more likely and that concerns me. And I don't think the result of this helps anyone.
When one army fights another army, they both wear uniforms that identify them as combatants. It is clear who is fighting for one side or another.
When one army fights a terrorist organization, only one side wears uniforms, and the other side pretends that they are civilians. It is far more complicated to figure out who is from the terrorist organization.
Yes, as an American I am intimately familiar with this idea. We did just get out from occupying two countries in the past two decades.
One of the lessons we learned is that it is a mistake to think you can actually destroy a terrorist organization with military force in any kind of reasonable way. It is not a possible goal, and attempting it will make your problems worse.
Terrorist orgs don't die. They just shapeshift and come back.
It’s geopolitical virtue signaling
I don't think so. I think it's more people not thinking very deeply in the heat of the moment. Most people don't think technically, that takes training and most people lack training. I certainly wouldn't expect a Pope to have some, or a President, usually.