re: 177

If you think I’m ok with indiscrimiate slaughter, you’re mistaken. I already acknowledged that the victims won’t care whether they were the victims of genocide or mass murder. We’ve seen this debate before, and how badly it turned out for us. Sharon and his ilk would never acknowledge their side as advocating genocide. That debate is ultimately a distraction from what is most important, that of finding a direction for Israel to defend itself from attack and also finding a way to get the populace of Gaza from either active or passive support of Hamas.
The idea that Israel will kill a million people in Gaza is not credible, even if Sharon were somehow magically put in power. “Millions” require neclear weapons. and Israel will not use nuclear weapons right next to its own border. What Sharon advocates is a wave of violence that will do nothing to make Israel more secure, instead quite the opposite.