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Oh I mean, I was trying to use the grammar you used but ok then sure.
So in warfare, and really just most of life in general, there's this concept called proportionality.
If somebody mildly slaps you, pulling out your CC pistol and shooting them in the face is ... a disproportianate response.
Hamas has no capacity to summon hundreds of aerial bombing sorties and hundreds of cruise missile strikes, a day, repeatedly, in an ongoing basis.
Uh ok, next... states do not voluntarily disintegrate themselves, because they do things you don't like.
Next next... part of the MOU was the US would lift its blockade. So, if the US reverts to enacting a blockade, that... will make it so that a ceasefire and peace cannot happen, because thats part of the MOU that the US and Iran agreed to 48 hrs ago.
If you think that's Trump's actions have been consistent, uh frankly you are a total idiot who does not know what that word means... and how often in the past 3 months, Trump has said and done near totally opposed, opposite things, every other day.
He has only been consistent in that he consistently flip flops in the extreme.
We are starting the war to overthrow the regime!
We're doing this for America!
The Kurds are gonna revolt!
Peace is almost here!
We're energy independent so oil being blocked is no big deal!
I'm gonna destroy an entire civilization!
Look, I'm Jesus!
Praise be to Allah!
The same regime is in place but we also did regime change.
Peace is almost here!
I'm double blockading the blockade of the Strait!
Actually we started this because Israel told me to.
Peace is almost here!
We have 4 months untill we run out of oil reserves.
... etc.
If you think that is 'consistent', you're either developmentally delayed, or schizophrenic.
He's literally now said 'we are on the verge of a peace deal' at least 39 times now.
Israel need to show other countries that attacking them is a stupid idea. Proportional response is good if you want to be attacked by terrorists.
I'm not saying that what Israel does is justified, but I can see why they're doing that (attacking Gaza, Iran and Lebanon). The war crimes they commit can't be justified and I hope their leaders and individual soldiers who commit them, are punished according to international law.
The US reverted to enacting the blocade, because Iran set conditions the US by itself cannot met.
Trump has been consistant in his actions, but the stuff he posts on social media (and elsewhere) is genuinely nonsense.
The last 3 years have shown exactly the result of the defense doctrine you're describing: genocide and ethnic cleansing, brutality that will haunt its victims for generations and a global rise in antisemism while the Israeli regime uses Diaspora Jews as human shields for its atrocities. So no, the framing of poor Israel defending itself from attacks needs to end. This isn't just some leaders and individuals, this is deeply systemic. Israel needs to dismantle the apartheid system, end the occupation, pay reparations, and undergo deep deradicalization and de-zionization of its institutions including the education system and its media.