Take Iwo Jima. But this time, give the combatants twenty years and billions of dollars in “humanitarian aid” to construct an immense underground complex of attack tunnels, retreat tunnels, supply tunnels, staging areas, missile factories, missile launch pads, hospitals, command centers, what have you. Now let’s cover the entire island with civilian infrastructure and populate it. We’ll attach a few lines to some outcrops and begin the lengthy process of towing the whole layered confection to the west coast of the United States.
It begins slowly. From the hidden launch pads a few mortars lob their bombs at random. The bombs land where they land, with no warning. Slowly, the terrorists refine their product and are soon sending all the citizens of Sacramento scurrying to bomb shelters. Sometimes it gets so bad that the Marines are sent in, but they meet with little resistance and end up facing civilians with their tanks. Things cool down for a while, the tanks retreat, and after a week or so the rockets fly again, just enough to irritate, but not enough to bring the Marines back in. Wash. Rinse. Repeat.
Then the inevitable happens and a rocket explodes on a kindergarten and kills children. Oh boy, the terrorists really did it this time. Are they going to get it! The Marines storm the beaches ready to wreak vengeance. But…where are the terrorists? There is nothing but hospitals, schools, and babies. There’s a terrorist! But before the Marines can react the terrorist has shot a rocket and disappeared under the ground again. You never know when or where they will pop up. An entire guerrilla strategy based on whack-a-mole. The Marines, bleeding, make a tactical retreat to regroup, and call in WWII veterans as consultants. They soon had the solution: they will burn the bastards out with flame-throwers.
But no. While the Marines were trying to figure it out the moles stormed Pasadena and raped and pillaged and withdrew into their tunnels with hundreds, thousands of hostages. Burn them, you burn your own. And there the Marines stood. With no option but to grunt it out hole by hole, sustaining casualties that the brave Marines understand is the price to be paid. All the while the nations of the world are calling on America to cease fire and save the babies.
Naw, that would not happen. No one would call out America on that.
But Israel is called out.
In the past, Israel has bent over backwards to appease world opinion.
This time, World, whoever takes a stance against Israel, we Zionists piss on your faces. Back off. Stand clear. The Zionists are doing what must be done and we will see it through to the end. Afterwards, we will deal with you.
After a couple thousand years you've realized you can't please the haters. Haters will hate because that is what haters do. I used to tell my juvenile probation students, "Look around, see who hates you. Make sure they're the right people."
Yes, see it through to the end.