Military action has it’s downsides
Yes, most people would consider “needless deaths of civilians while causing more terrorism” a pretty significant downside.
but the government of any nation would need to do something in a situation like this
Of course, but “something” ≠ military action.
Taking steps
in the pastto make the situation better in Gaza, and in turn give people less reasons to join and support Hamas wouldhave beenbe better
Fixed that for you
that ship has sailed
It most certainly has not.
they didn’t want it anyways.
Hamas may not, but the Palestinian civilian population which are the main victims in this most certainly do.
Again, a military action is not the only possible response. Your “military or nothing” false dichotomy is beginning to grate…
I already told you I don’t know. Luckily, you don’t need to know what DOES work in order to know that a military response categorically DOESN’T WORK unless your aim is to cause MORE terrorism to happen.
That would actually be a great idea. Would show Palestinians that, unlike Hamas, Israel cares about the innocent civilians caught in the crossfire.
They don’t, of course, but pretending so could have gone a long way towards reconciliation and the erosion of Hamas’ influence in Gaza.
Which is objectively stupid of Israel, unless they have genocidal intentions and don’t care much about innocent lives. Which they’ve of course demonstrated is absolutely the case.