We want to achieve vital military goals, but we are unwilling to pay the price in our own blood; we insist on putting virtually all of that price on foreign civilians.
As the horrors in Gaza motivate protests and spark bitter political debates, Israel's Likud-led war coalition has justified its current strategy using two basic points: first, the need to end Hamas' control of Gaza and capacity to launch future attacks; and second, the stark fact that Hamas uses Israeli hostages and ordinary Palestinians as 'human shields.
Here we can see a key but little-recognized cause of the death toll and massive destruction following Hamas's horrendous attacks on innocent civilians on October 7, 2023: the IDF, like the armed forces of virtually every developed democratic nation on the planet, has become extremely intolerant of casualties among its ranks, insisting on strategies that minimize its own casualties but enormously magnify civilian 'collateral damage.
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