The firebombing? I guess because it was so overshadowed by the atomic bomb and the start of the nuclear age; plus the link between the two vis-a-vis the end of the war often hasn't been appreciated.
If Israel had chosen to firebomb Gaza into ashes (like Tokyo or Dresden) instead of risking soldiers' lives in a ground campaign, how do you think the world would have reacted? And if, instead of 50,000 deaths over months of fighting (including both combatants and civilians), the same toll had been inflicted in a single night?
I don't know how the world would have reacted, but I think it would have been a major mistake both ethically and strategically. I'll look at this point some more in the final section.
Why is this not as well known, or is it in the US?
The firebombing? I guess because it was so overshadowed by the atomic bomb and the start of the nuclear age; plus the link between the two vis-a-vis the end of the war often hasn't been appreciated.
If Israel had chosen to firebomb Gaza into ashes (like Tokyo or Dresden) instead of risking soldiers' lives in a ground campaign, how do you think the world would have reacted? And if, instead of 50,000 deaths over months of fighting (including both combatants and civilians), the same toll had been inflicted in a single night?
I don't know how the world would have reacted, but I think it would have been a major mistake both ethically and strategically. I'll look at this point some more in the final section.
I agree, of course. Just thinking aloud.