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In reply to the discussion: Netanyahu Is Making Israel Radioactive (NYT) [View all]Richard D
(8,864 posts)One to one? Does Israel stop after exactly 123,00 Palestinians are killed? What about the rapes? Should Israel count the rapes of 10/7 and rape that many Palestinians? Does Israel, therefore, need a new branch of their military made of sadists who will mutilate and torture citizens? One-to-one, of course, so that it all stays "proportional." Oh, and of course, kidnapping the exact number of civilians Hamas did and keeping them locked up underground on starvation rations and abused and raped? Help me understand this, please.
Or perhaps it can be determined that Israelis are more valuable than Palestinians, and rather than being on to one, it can be bounced up a bit, perhaps to two or three to one. I'm curious how the Palestinians will choose the "volunteered" to participate with their lives. Random lottery? The exact ages must all be the same to be truly proportional, so children and infants must be part of this. There are so many other factors that must be met to be truly proportional - intelligence, family members who will be affected, future potential, and far more. But proportionality must be maintained.
Jews, at least the vast majority, will not participate in this. So actors from different countries must be found who can perform the needed rapes, torture, and murder. So that they do so with the same gusto and sadism that Hamas butchered the Israelis, a suitable people must be found who hate Muslims with all their hearts. Otherwise, the torture would be half-hearted and would not be truly proportional. Of course, families of the victims would be forced to watch.
Or, since all of this is certainly too complex, a perfectly proportional number of deaths could be agreed upon. Is four too few, five enough, or six too many? I'm sure some would find any number too small, as others would find any number too large. One cannot deny the value Israel and Jews have contributed to the world that is highly disproportional to any other culture. So, the future loss to humanity should also be calculated.
Perhaps an international panel could be convened to determine the exact ramifications of proportionality, and a panel could be convened to determine who would be on the panel, of course.
In all this, I have not mentioned yet Hamas. What should their role be in this proportionality? Personally, I think every single agent of Hamas should be executed for each Israeli they butchered. That would be proportional, though resurrection would be needed. No matter what, it could never be enough.
Of course, in a heated topic like this, I must confess to some proportional degree of