moral, victory. Also, one must deter the enemy or any future enemy from trying to achieve their aims in a similar way. For any country as small as Israel, the necessity of deterrence is absolute. Israel could not fight a war of parity with any of its enemies or neighbors. Iran, for instance, is a country of 88 million people, which is almost ten times the population of Israel. There is no way that in a conflict between Israel and Iran—which trains, sponsors, and funds Hamas—either country could accept the same number of casualties. So Israel has to fight a different kind of war, while under
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