Lithose
Buzzfeed Editor
There is amassivedifference between the conditions that lead to Germany/Japan's capitulation and these "wars" in Gaza. All the "wars" in Gaza over the last two decades wouldn't even have been a significant battle in WW2. It's just not comparable, it's not on the same scale, not even close. Just to put it into perspective though, Germany lost almost12%of it's population, 8 million people died, a few million of them civilians. On top of that, during the occupation,a few million MORE Germans died; starvation, malnutrition and fairly brutal behavior by all the allies (Not just the Russians.) Our goal was to literally reduce the citizenry to a level of poverty before making them dependent on us for rebuilding--and wedidit.And Gaza's already not? How much past being in an open air prison do you need them to be?
GTFO
If Gaza was being treated the same way as Germany post WW2; we'd call it agenocidetoday,easy. And again, that's NOT including the terrible losses suffered in WW2. By the end of allied occupation there was, most likely, not one German family that didn't lose a few members, or face eviction/looting/destruction of their property. Notone. By comparison, in the last two decades, about 3-4k Palestinians have died--this total, is about.001% of their population. And while 3000 people dying is horrific; it's such a small number that MOST Palestinian families probably haven't lost anyone within their immediate household (The total opposite of the Germans).
The total effect on society is just not even comparable. There is just a massive difference between the "total war" we used to engage in and our modern, westernized version of PR war that sprang up due to Vietnam. It's just a lot easier to continue "resistance" when you still have most of the young male members of your society; it's just nothing like it was. People forget the horrors that allowed the Marshal plan to work; there is no way a modern war can institute those changes.
Do you even realize how many people in JUST Gaza would need to die before you aproached that death toll (As a % of population, btw)? We are talking close to 200k--and for it to be as impactful, it would need to happen in a 4 year period--and that's not including the millions of Germans who died in the occupation, that's JUST the war. I'm so sorry, Gaza doesn't know obliteration because it's facing a modern Westernized opponent; if you believe it does, then you need to crack open a history book.