My bolding.That's not whataboutery.
I'm highlighting that there doesn't seem to be any means that Jews are allowed to defend themselves against a foe whose stated aim is to kill them all.
This is defence against a war of annihilation. On several fronts. Maiming your enemy's combatants is kind of normal in war.
But unacceptable for Jews, evidently
Yes, it is. But maiming (or killing) tens of thousands of innocent non-combatants including children really isn't "normal". In another time, at another place, it would be called genocide.
And please don't make this a "Jewish" issue. It really isn't. I have marched with Jews on pro-Palestinian marches over the attrocities in Gaza. I have seen Jews protesting on the streets of Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. The problem lies square at the door of the extreme rightwing government of the State of Israel. It is disingenuous in the extreme to try to make this into an anti-Jewish issue. It isn't.