I think the point is that it's not instant, it creates generational trauma that is very easily weaponisable in the future when those questions are asked at an older age and nefarious forces can point at the Israeli people and say 'them, that was all them'
Quite, so kill every firstborn before they come after me?
This cannot be the will of the Jewish diaspora, I count some amongst my friends and loved and lost one of them. Neither can it be what the Israeli people want as most of them must be sane.
I think the point is that it's not instant, it creates generational trauma that is very easily weaponisable in the future when those questions are asked at an older age and nefarious forces can point at the Israeli people and say 'them, that was all them'