Hezbollah attacking from Lebanon and what appears to be some random attack in Egypt on israeli tourists isn't going to help this any.
If this keeps up Gaza will eventually become a parking lot (being metaphorical mostly).
This was a horrific attack. Israel’s 911. No other way to describe this.
I agree with that characterization, but it's worth asking, with the benefit of 20 years' hindsight, did any of our responses to 9/11 make things better? Put aside for a moment your partisan beliefs -- whatever they may be -- or the need to assign blame and consider: Objectively speaking, what geopolitical situations are better today than they were on Sept. 10, 2001? I suppose if you're an Iraqi and you lived through all of the death and devastation of the war, your life is better today than it was under Saddam. But if you look at Afghanistan, the Middle East, and the US itself, it's really hard to argue that things are objectively better.
That's not to say Israel will necessarily repeat the mistakes we made. I hope they can learn from our example. But my level of optimism isn't very high. I understand the urge to turn Gaza into a parking lot, but leaving aside the moral case against it (which is horrific), I don't think it will succeed strategically