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If destroying Gaza was the goal, it could be done far more cheaply with dumb bombs or artillery barrages of old weapons. The use of weapons that can be substantially aimed is evidence that destroying Gaza isn’t the goal and we are expending billions of dollars to reduce casualties.


The Israelis have heavily used JDAMs in Gaza, a weapon 'substantially aimable' but whose payload is too big to contain to its target.


Perfect weapon for a Genocide. Always tout that there were Terrorists, but take out upto a 100 people. Perfect. Ofcourse the powers that be will have to allow it, And send those weapons in the first place.


Destroying Gaza itself is not the goal. It's destroying the people that's the goal. So that other people can occupy that land. And that is being accomplished with old, new, weapons, and with the "weapon" of withholding aid as well.


Destroying Gaza is the goal, or else Gaza wouldn't be destroyed. [0]

Your argument that it could be done 'easier' with dumb bombs or artillery callously ignores the fact that another goal in the destruction of Gaza is the all-out servicing of Israels military-industrial complex, which profits immensely with every single cruise missile/smart bomb dropped.

Plus, there's the fact that a lot of dumb bombs have, indeed, been dropped on Gaza in the last year. All of those bombs need to be replenished, and the profit in that is immense.

>expending billions of dollars to reduce casualties

This doublethink is such an incredibly cruel and wrong position to take. Have you not been paying attention to the daily mass murder that occurs, whatever the weapon of choice, of entirely innocent human beings? [1]

[0] - https://reliefweb.int/map/occupied-palestinian-territory/uno...

[1] - https://airwars.org/




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