which could just be a tactic to get the US involved to ruin American in-roads into the region via the Saudis and Egyptians.
Doubtful. While Egypt and the Saudis bitched about Israeli attacks, they haven't actually done anything to penalize Israel. Their words are empty and only to hedge bets. The US aligned nations in the region are surely tickled to death that Iran is getting their shit rocked. You have to remember that the Saudis have been begging the US to do something about Iran for quite a while, even threatening to procure nuclear weapons if the US didn't promise to protect them from Iranian nukes. Additionally, the Saudis have shed a lot of blood and treasure in Yemen due to Iran.
Israel sets the example then cries when it comes back to bite them
If we're playing whataboutism games, what about the last thirty years of Iranian support for regional terror groups? What about Iranian support for Hamas, which led to terrorists beheading infants from a hospital nursery and tossing them in a pit? Does this give Israel the right to storm Gaza or Tehran and decapitate literal, actual infants? You, along with everyone else that spouts this eye for an eye shit needs to take a good, long look at that moral measuring stick you're using.
Personally, I would prefer if civilians were not intentionally targeted for murder or genocide, regardless of what nation they are citizens of.
It’s removing people who are legally obligated to assist the military effort if asked.
My brother in Christ, you have just described every person on the planet. Even though the US doesn't have the draft, all adult males are registered with the Selective Service, and if the call went out for rationing or civilian donation of war materiel, like steel, aluminum, or synthetic fiber, like WWII, and women and children donated their matchbox cars and pantyhose, they would be "assisting the military effort." In WWII, mothers were encouraged to coordinate carpools to get children to school to conserve fuel for the war effort, would it be therefore justifiable to shoot up an elementary school or rig a carpool vehicle full of children to explode? This is fucking insane.
Even the military installations were not a legitimate targets as they posed no threat and were not in active combat.
This is retarded. By the way, you never addressed my points about the First Arab-Israeli War.