Belgium's prime minister Alexander De Croo has said that "what is happening in Gaza today is no longer proportionate".

[Captain Stern]

3. That's pretty much it.

A truly proportionate response by Israel would have been to intentionally kill 1300 Palestinians, and take 150 hostages. Then, wait for Hamas to strike again, and then proportionately respond again. Since there are more Israelis than folks living in Gaza, that would pretty much go on until all the Palestinians in Gaza are dead.

I think all reasonable people agree that wars suck. Personally, it's always flabbergasted me that people can sit down together, and come up with civil rules for conducting wars, but we can't stay at the table just a little longer, and figure out how not to have them in the first place.

But, until people can figure out how not to have wars, they won't be fought proportionately, and they shouldn't be.