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Originally Posted by Kamui4356
Which is already the situation and has been for quite some time. This just makes it a bit more lopsided. Iron dome won't stop attacks from occurring, and military retaliation won't make Hamas sue for peace any more than past Israeli military action has. The idea that if Israel can just hit them hard enough, if they can just make the cost so stacked against the Palestinians, they'll give up is fundamentally flawed.
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Oh, you can hit anyone hard enough to make them give up.
The problem is that Israel can't maintain international support for their existence if they essentially go out and level the West Bank and Gaza strip and cause hundreds of thousands of civillian casualties.
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Originally Posted by bladeofdarkness
if thats gone, then they have nothing left.
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This is just a short term band aid fix though. The Israeli/Palestinian conflict has gone on for decades, and there's no indication that it won't continue to go on. No defense stays impenetrable forever.
In ten, twenty years the Palestinians will have come up with a new method for attacking Israel. Just a few days ago a laser guided was fired from the Gaza strip at a school bus. If it had been fired five minutes earlier, they'd have killed dozens of children.
Iron Dome is only a temporary respite. Israel is still very much surrounded and threatened by people who want them dead.