This pager attack is a great example of Israel being its own worst enemy. Israel just gave the world the best reason yet to support the BDS movement and boycott Israeli-handled goods - your very life may be at risk if you do not.
Yes, Israel has enemies. But trying to bomb and/or occupy them all is flawed strategy. Israel is charging straight into the trap set for it by Hamas and those who wish to do it harm, cheered on by people like you who think it's a noble thing to kill all your enemies, with no consideration whatsoever if this is strategically or tactically sound or even possible.
Israel clearly struggled to secure its existing border on Oct. 7. Now it's trying to expand them into Lebanon and re-occupy Gaza? What sense does that make? If the goal is to create 'buffer zones', that just adds to the surface area of the borders that it must now defend and creates an even larger perimeter that must be patrolled - and a larger vector for possible attack.
Furthermore, the far worse humanitarian harm Israel is now inflicting is accomplishing the very objective Hamas desired: For Israel to lash out in fury, and proceed to go on a rampage, thus de-legitimizing it further in the eyes of the world, and causing it to lose support and whatever sympathy it had after Oct. 7.
If Israel loses the backing of the US (which is not an impossible scenario), will it be able seize and hold all the territory it is now attacking? Or will it be forced to retreat, creating yet another vacuum for even more hostile groups to form exploiting the hatred for it that Israel is sowing by killing tens of thousands since Oct. 7?
Israel at some point must confront the reality that is not possible, realistic, or feasible to bomb out of existence every single person on Earth who dislikes it without creating a far worse security situation for itself.
It would be better for Israel to use its limited resources to fix its vulnerable borders and address its mounting internal turmoil rather than squandering them (and risking even more Israeli life) trying to conduct US-style expeditionary warfare and occupations beyond its insufficiently-secured borders that allowed the Oct. 7 attack to be possible in the first place.
