Holocaust, no. Genocide, possibly but it's more machiavellian, let me explain:
Regardless of how the attack happened, it did two things: show Israel's weakness and could be vulnerable in a HIGHLY contested area of the world and a call for vengeance from the population there against Hamas. Netanyahu is politically fucked by this but MORE fucked if he didn't go as far as currently as he would be out of office and someone MORE bloodthirsty would be in instead under these circumstances.
Better Gaza be sacrificed as an example of why not to attack Israel when, being honest, NO OTHER country in the area wants them than not respond immediately, drag feet and in doing so encouraging others to attack too leading to a bigger war and more dead.
This is the brutal reality of foreign policy, it's why gunboat diplomacy worked for centuries..
Holocaust, no. Genocide, possibly but it's more machiavellian, let me explain:
Regardless of how the attack happened, it did two things: show Israel's weakness and could be vulnerable in a HIGHLY contested area of the world and a call for vengeance from the population there against Hamas. Netanyahu is politically fucked by this but MORE fucked if he didn't go as far as currently as he would be out of office and someone MORE bloodthirsty would be in instead under these circumstances.
Better Gaza be sacrificed as an example of why not to attack Israel when, being honest, NO OTHER country in the area wants them than not respond immediately, drag feet and in doing so encouraging others to attack too leading to a bigger war and more dead.
This is the brutal reality of foreign policy, it's why gunboat diplomacy worked for centuries..