John Mearsheimer

And I believe that's to be condemned, the killing of civilians.

This is not legitimate collateral damage.

They're directly punishing the population.

But I would not call that a genocide, right?

And I would not compare that to the Holocaust for one second.

I just want to be very clear on that.

No, they're purposely killing civilians.

This is the iron wall.

They're trying to beat the Palestinians in a submission, right?

There's no way you kill this many civilians if you're trying to precisely take out Hamas fighters.

And by the way, the Israeli spokesman, the IDF spokesman, has explicitly said that we are not pursuing precision bombing and that what we are doing is trying to, you know, maximize the amount of destruction and damage that we can inflict on the Palestinians.

And...

I think this is a major mistake on the part of Israel.

First of all, it ends up being a moral stain on your reputation, number one.

And number two, it doesn't work.

It doesn't work.

The Palestinians are not going to roll over and submit to Israeli domination of their life.

The whole concept of the Iron Wall, Jabotinsky's term, was misguided.

And by the way, if you look at what the Israelis are doing, they're trying to do two things.

One is the iron wall, and that's where you punish the civilian population in Gaza and get them to submit.