@KosherChutzpah I’m not sure if that specific claim is true. But honestly, if any other Western country used the same strategy as Israel, it would face exactly the same scrutiny — probably even more.
The problem is that Israel still wants the world to see it as an innocent lamb.
But people are not buying that anymore.
If you are defending your security, make that argument honestly. But don’t play the victim while your own actions have killed thousands of children, destroyed entire neighborhoods, and made civilian life impossible.
At some point, “self-defense” stops sounding convincing when it looks like collective punishment.