This framework is wholly inappropriate. This was not a battle between two nations and their militaries but two radically unlike entities; the army of the Jews who target those who endanger them vs. outlaws for whom the targeting of non-combatants is why people call them terrorists. Israel’s task was to stop them; theirs was to kill non-combatant Jews at random.

Israel aims at specific killers; the killers can kill any Jew anywhere in Israel and preen themselves as victorious heroes who made Jews cry. No matter what we do they will claim victory…