“Militarily relevant” is probably the better term, but tbh I don’t even really know what genocide tangibly achieves for Israel. Let’s say Israel just goes for it tomorrow and starts dropping the largest bombs they have on every single refugee camp in Gaza; the current massacre but times 10,000, kills hundreds of thousands of people in a week. Quite possibly the greatest catastrophe and murder spree that humanity has ever seen outside of the World Wars. What does that achieve for Israel, specifically? There are still millions of Palestinians in the world, Hamas is still present and fighting, Hezbollah is still there and an existential threat, Iran is still there and an even more existential threat. They are in precisely the same situation that they were a month and 2 million people before they started, and now everybody that isn’t a Western stooge is much angrier at them.

Demoralization of the Palestinians? To what end? The process of making (civilian) Palestinians “give up” and “lose hope” leads to what actual outcome, exactly? If the Hope Gauge reaches a certain number, does Gaza fall?

Moralization of the Israelis? To what end? Internal schisms inside Israel will not rely on whether a certain number of Palestinians have been killed today, either from a sympathetic faction (which is an absolute minority inside Israel) or from one that bays for blood and wants a certain number to die every day (what is their interest in rebelling against a government protecting them from the Resistance?) It’ll rely on the economic and military pain of the warfare being conducted.

My point is, basically, that all the civilian deaths and destruction of the buildings inside Gaza just seems pointless - even counterproductive - and a waste of resources and manpower and time even if you’re the most immoral, cold-hearted person on the planet, whose sole goal is to ensure the survival of the Israeli state, whatever conclusion that brings you to. If anything, that immoral person might want to keep the civilians reasonably unharmed in order to avoid further economic pain from sanctions/decoupling, and perhaps try to drive wedges between the civilians and Hamas. And looking back for a historical parallel, we can see that the many, many massacres and atrocities committed by Western empires throughout the last 500 years ultimately produced the conditions for the overthrow of that colonial rule - they did not prevent it. Once national consciousness spread to the colonized nations, the West kept trying to do the atrocities and concentration camps and such, but it routinely failed and was too costly for those imperialist nations to continue doing. A million people being murdered in Algeria did not stop them from fighting and may have provided further drive to keep fighting. Similar situation in the Korean War and Vietnam and India.