And though I know you right-winger types love to use put downs and derision as a tactic against all perceived enemies,
You are describing leftists. Feigned offense, mockery and personal insults are all they have. You have obviously never tried to have a meaningful discussion with a leftist. You have no idea of the level of disappointment you would face. Hence the saying "Ignorance is bliss."
incompetence is not a reason for the inequities between Israel and Hamas.
You are incorrectly using the term "Hamas" when you are specifically discussing the Al Qassam brigades. Hamas is a political organization with an affiliate militant arm, the Al Qassam brigades, that is not funded to the same level that the IDF is funded by the United States. That is the disparity in question. If you are going to compare Israel to something, you need to compare Israel to Gaza, and Gaza is not funded to the same level as Israel is funded by the United States.
The Al Qassam brigades are funded by Iran (and Qatar). The funding they receive is about $80-$100 million per year. That is sufficient for substantive terrorist operations, but it is nowhere near enough for a military force that needs to conduct frequent military operations. Hezbollah is funded by Iran (and Syria) to the tune of $600 million+ per year. Israel does not want Hezbollah (and Syria) to enter the picture.
But western militaries always try to minimize civilian casualties.
All countries are signatories to the Geneva Conventions, the fourth of which governs the law of war (or the law of armed conflict). Most countries try to adhere to the Geneva Conventions because they know that if they don't, the world at large will feel justified in hanging all the offending country's leaders. The treatment of lawful noncombatants (civilians) is covered extensively.
Israel doesn't appear to be concerned with such trivialities in this instance.
Israel relies on the US supporting them no matter what they do. They can perpetrate Holocaust 2.0 and American Christians will cheer it on if they know that it is Israel, the home of the modern day Israelites and heroes of their religion, are the ones perpetrating it. They will justify it as what Yaweh wants. American Christians don't want to be Philistines (Palestinians), i.e. the bad guys in the story of their religion.
The civilian population of Palestine are not the enemy here.
Correct. They never attacked Israel. They just happen to be Arabs, the ethnicity that Israel wishes to cleanse. Instead of invading Iran, i.e. the perpetrator of the attack on Israel, Israel is simply using Iran's attack as a premise to "go to war" against the ethnicity they HATE and wish to eradicate. There are so many defenseless Arabs right next door in Gaza; it would be a shame to miss this opportunity to kill them by the thousands while destroying everything they have built. American Christians will cheer them on and will even demand increased funding/aid to Israel using their "permanent victim status" as justification.
Yet you probably believe that the 2020 election was stolen from Trump, Biden is the head of a crime family and 9/11 was orchestrated by the US government.
Here you pull an Oliver North and pull the rug out from under your own argument. You otherwise have the correct perspective on Israel's atrocities, but then you tie your argument to the 2020 election ... which
was stolen brazenly while the American public watched, after the DNC had broadcast what it was going to do and what to look for ... and you render your argument on Israel FALSE in the process. Stupid. All you had to do was to state Israel's transgressions; they speak for themselves. Instead, you get your argument dismissed because you felt compelled to wander politically. Why don't you ask him if he believes that light travels at the speed of light? ... or whether he believes that air is good?
If only you had not "gone there", your next thought is perfectly spot on target:
If it means wiping out tens of thousands of civilians who had nothing to do with any terrorist attacks then yes, it's wrong to support wiping out tens of thousands of civilians who had nothing to do with any terrorist attacks.
Bingo. That's the entirety of the situation, why many Israelis have a lot of answering to do for the horrific things they have done, and why Team Israel is on the wrong side of the morality fence.
You shouldn't need to have that explained to you, but then again, you shouldn't need to have it explained to you why Trump is a dangerous lunatic who should be in prison and nowhere near the White House ever again.
... and for some reason you felt the need to throw your argument under the bus and waste all your effort up to this point by rendering it all FALSE with your concluding remarks. You're another Oliver North.