Yes, they should have "a regular army." That way they can begin to follow modern (Western) rules governing warfare, and Israel will have something to bomb that the rest of the world won't whine about. Which is why they never will form a regular army, of course.

WHAT SORT OF NATION CAN'T DEFEND ITSELF?

European

Exactly, Europe isn't a nation.

Which is why you make them a nation. Slaughtering civilians in occupied territory is a war crime. Nuking them in an enemy state is just good policy.

Operating in civilian areas in order to provoke enemy response is a war crime.

Israel's actions cannot be reasonably described as "slaughtering civilians" and you know it.

At this point, a regular Army would be too much of a threat to Hamas, Fatah, Al-Aqsa, Islamic Jihad, and all the rest of the gangs.

It's why the Guard (and all the sub-factions thereof) wield the real power in Iran, rather than the 'regular' Army.

Yes, Hamas will convert its forces into a standard military and purge the rest.

It's a civilian area.

No, but to win they need to. They can only do so if they make it a nation first.

All of the LoW tests governing the above oj/b discussion involve balancing military necessity against the proportionality of the harm to protected persons occasioned by the exercise of military necessity.

In the case under discussion, Israel appears to be acting reasonably, and, yes, the other side appears to be intentionally using protected persons as cover and concealment.

I realize that what I am about to say is probably a minority position, and that Israel has been folowing more generous RoE's. My opinion is that it is never a war crime to return fire in self defense, self-defense including suppression of enemy fires. It is only that such return fire may not be exessive to the threat nor needlessly indiscriminate.

The case under discussion is a Holocaust of the Palestinians by Israel. Yes, it's perfectly permissible in self-defense against a Palestinian nation. It's not allowed against an internal population, no matter how rambunctious..

The most interesting part will be when this new "army" buys its weapons from Israel.

One really ought to stick to one's strengths: more recipes.

And is trained at Fort Benning.

And kills terrorists rather than Jews.

When you're occupied Israel is the enemy. When you're a state terrorists are.