True, Israel only targets combatants and takes unprecedented efforts at avoiding civilians (making personalized phone calls to civilians before striking areas near them)

They call you personally! Can you imagine how that phone call goes down? "Hey, uh, we're planning on bombing your neighborhood later on today, and there's a chance, you know, I don't want to give probabilities? But definitely a chance that your home won't be standing when we're done. With the bombing and such. So you're going to want to leave your last shreds of wealth and security behind for like a day or so. Maybe more."

If that isn't courtesy, I don't know what is.

On the other hand, a ground war against unmarked combatants in a territory what, a third the size of Los Angeles? Populated by 1.5m... that's gonna be a tough sell (pretty sure you can map the logistics of this way better than I could). I see how they'd want to just stick to missiles for as long as possible. But then don't paint it as the Moral Option. That's a slap in the face. It's the Easy Option.