As we all know, the proportional loss of life on 10/7 has been called worse than 9/11 due to Israel losing 1000 civilians out of a population of 10 million. Compared to the US losing 3000 people out of roughly 300 million, this is a tenfold difference in magnitude. Hence, "as bad as 10 9/11s."
The Palestinians, however, have lost 3000 civilians from a population of 2.4 million, which is over a hundred times worse than the real 9/11. So the Palestinian 9/11 is over ten times worse than the Israeli 9/11. Also, they actually have collapsed buildings and smoking rubble.
In summary, the Israelis are currently waging a war on terror in Gaza. The Palestinians are getting ready to invade America, where the Israelis trained for their attack.
This post was just a jab at the death ratio talking point, but yes that is a significant parallel that makes it easy to sell the bombing campaign to boomers.
A dire, totalizing response makes sense logically, but only in a narrow sense. Once Israel kills its way through Gaza and Hamas, they've only kindled the resentment for the next attack. If my relatives were killed in a bombing run, I can't say I'd feel differently.
If Israel reverted to old colonial ways, they might be able to break the demographic back of the Palestinians by forcing them to flee Gaza. Does anyone actually see it going that way though?