It seems Netanyahu is nonplussed that the world's opinion turned as much as it did towards the Palestinian cause...

After all, didn't Israel deliver the more brutal response to Gaza? Haven't Gaza's casualties and destruction been exponentially greater than that inflicted on Israel by Hamas?

Hasn't Israel proved to be the strong and Palestine the weak?

These thoughts seem to plague Netanyahu...

His conclusion appears to be that everyone's weak, but himself and Israel.

While Israeli leaders usually expend very little energy or political capital denying their extreme, brutal, over-responses to Arab/Muslim attacks, it's not that there's no method behind their open admissions.

Their responses to the world after their actions are always predicated on the memory of the Holocaust...

On this, it's Holocaust all the way down.

The October 23 attack was the worst attack on Jews since the Holocaust.

Holocaust survivors' memories, after attacks, are heavily politically promoted.

Israeli leaders, political or civilian, remind the world of 'Never Again', in reference to the Holocaust.

When it's established that any Israeli response is predicated on the suffering of Jews during the Holocaust and that world opinion is muted, or softened, Israeli actions can proceed... untethered from any restraint that may otherwise have been imposed on them.

But who are they directing the Holocaust line at?

Not the Arabs, nor the Middle East, nor Central, nor East Asia, nor anywhere in the Muslim world, whose peoples feel no sense of guilt about the Holocaust...

The Holocaust rhetoric is directed not just at Germans, but at all European nations and European descent nations - the only nations Israelis care about, given that so many are directly descended from European Jews and that all European nations bear some collective responsibility for the Holocaust after nearly 2000 years of Jew-hate.

This would explain Netanyahu's frustration over this tactic having not been as successful in muting European anger over Israel's over-response in Gaza as it would have been less than 20 years ago.

Belgarion wrote on Aug 22^nd, 2025 at 6:24pm:

Israel has been maintaining a tactic of escalated retaliation since its founding in 1948, and Zionist militants used that policy against the British during the early 40s when equivalent retaliation did not deter the British from arresting, convicting and executing/flogging Zionist terrorists in Mandate Palestine.

Netanyahu recently made his thoughts clear on the matter, that ethical restraints have no place when projecting power.

Netanyahu's explanation for the European and European-descent world leaders turning towards the Palestinian cause is their 'weakness' brought on by pandering to the West's younger generations' not understanding history.

By history, he meant the Holocaust, the evoking of which has always managed to mute or soften Western anger towards Israel's actions against Palestinians.

aquascoot wrote on Aug 22^nd, 2025 at 7:24pm:

Are they?

So, you're saying as long as the IDF stay under civil war levels of violence, they're very restrained.

aquascoot wrote on Aug 22^nd, 2025 at 7:37pm:

Would you nuke the houses in the block I live in, also?

Sir Grappler Truth Teller OAM wrote on Aug 22^nd, 2025 at 11:41pm:

So, you agree with the killing of civilians, based on your presumption of their guilt.

Are you saying that Israel is preparing for its ‘final solution’ to the Palestinian question?