You just don't need a reason. If somebody's got 100,000 rockets pointed at you and they're sending some of them at your residential places on a regular basis for years you don't need a reason. I'm glad that you said it I mean maybe it's better than not saying it but don't think you need to justify it. Nobody needs to justify that. If we had 100,000 rockets pointed at us from Canada and they've been shooting some of them every day no we don't need to know that you were going to shoot some more today in order to go cap all of their asses. No don't need a reason.

And again every time you say to yourself here's what Israel should do to be good and moral ethical people and here's what the Palestinians should do to be good and ethical people and here's how to make up for the past none of that has anything to do with anything. This area of the world is nothing but power and if you're lucky your allies will be the ones with the power. Now is that good or moral or ethical? No it's not even it's not even in the right conversation. None of those things matter. Nobody's making any decisions based on what's moral or ethical. That's just things yap yap yap yap yap. It's pure power it's self-interest.

Now it's hard for me to criticize Israel's strategy when it is so clearly linked to their self-interest. How do you criticize somebody who is pursuing their own best self-interest ever like ever? So I don't. And you know that if the power situation were reversed Israel would get wiped out and again that wouldn't be about you know you could argue it's unethical and illegal and immoral and all that. You could talk about it all day long but it doesn't matter. What would matter is the ones with the most power got everything. That's just the way it is.

Now unfortunately and I'm not saying that that's right just saying that talking about the ethics and the morality of it is just a waste of time. You can't ask Israel to do something that's in your opinion in your opinion you're not there but you can't ask them to do something that in your opinion is more moral and ethical. They shouldn't listen to you. They should look at what's good for them and then if it's not exactly as moral and ethical as some strangers in another country wanted them to be well then you say stuff like they were ready to attack us first but let's not get lost that any of that matters. None of that matters. The ones with the power and the interest are going to do what they can do and that's what we're watching. So the best case scenario is that your allies are winning. That's it. That's all we have and at the moment they're doing well.

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