JERUSALEM (AP) — The head of surgery at Gaza’s largest and most advanced hospital held up his phone Saturday to the hammering of gunfire and artillery shelling. “Listen,” said Dr. Marwan Abu Sada as fighting raged around Shifa Hospital.

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          If they actually did that the entirety of West Asia and North Africa would attack them and all their allies would abandon them.

          So actually, no, Israel doesn’t have that capability.

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            You seem to have a different understanding of capability than I do. They could do it, so they have the capability, but that says nothing about the consequences.

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              No, they would be dogpiled as they did it. They wouldn’t be able to finish the job before the whole world ate them alive.

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      Hamas killed around 1100 israelis on Oct 7.

      Israel killed at least 122 of the 1200 themselves. Most likely more

      350 of the israelis killed were IDF

      This mean the civilian casualty rate was around 70%. On Oct 7.

      Hamas has a far better civilian casualty rate than America which goes around 80-90 while committing their supposed genocide attack. This is not an accident you can realize by blind firing into civilian areas.

      Purely from these numbers we can conclude in ACTIONS not words that Hamas takes decent care to avoid civilian deaths even when attacking. Far better than israel which just bombs everything that moves.