> HN sometimes poses really difficult questions.

The person who posted that question is Israeli.

Yes, I am Israeli. I had over a dozen friends and coworkers killed by an Iranian proxy army, and several others abducted from their homes. Two women I know had their infants burned to death by that Iranian proxy army. My daughter's 16 year old friend was murdered in his home along with his brother and sister and both parents - none of the family survived. My two other children also lost people in their lives.

I'm the one calling for genocide? These people poured over the border with explicit instructions to kill Jews. That actually, truly, is the literal meaning of the term genocide.

I asked why Iran is being allowed to continue to harass shipping when a military option exists that would end their harassment. I argued that their own self-preservation instinct should be the driving force to prevent that option from actually being exercised. I didn't even realise that nuclear weapons were the context.