re: #198 LudwigVanQuixote

The goal of any war. To secure the land and break the will of the enemy to fight. This is accomplished by killing enough of them that they seek alternatives.

It worked great on Germany and Japan.

The enemy is not just the Palestinians, though. It is basically the rest of the Middle East.

Even if all of Palestine was conquered and every Palestinian either expelled or a good Israeli citizen, the attacks on Israel would continue. They might be less severe, they might not be— the bordering Arab states might, if Israel had fully annexed Palestine, be more than happy to provide self-haven for those mortars and rockets. Hell, they might finally create a new Palestine, just for that purpose.