October 23, 2024
The Israeli Reaction
It is often said that Israel should have had a reaction proportional to that of
Hamas on October 7, according to the ancient principle of "an eye for an eye."
But then the Israelis, in response to October 7, would have had to randomly take
1,200 Palestinians, assassinate them, behead children, horrifically rape women
before killing them, and take several hundred hostages.
But this is clearly absurd.
The Israeli action does not aim to be an act of revenge but rather a means of
deterrence to prevent such events from happening again: to show that the attempt
to destroy Israel brings only disaster to those who attempt it.