Strategic bombing is terror bombing. Killing civilians and terrorizing the survivors was the stated goal.

Of the Brits and of the Americans in Japan? Yes. Of the Americans in Europe? No. We endured high casualties for little gain because US bomber command in Europe recognized that attempting to break the enemy's will to resist by killing civilians was a fool's errand. We targeted strategic targets, such as factories and oil refineries. This is the whole reason for US daytime bombing vs. British night-time bombing. Unless you think the Americans just really liked taking heavy losses under daytime AA fire?

If Israel needs to learn anything from the Allied experience of strategic bombing, it’s probably that it doesn’t fucking work.

Yes, Israel needs to learn from the Allied experience of terror bombing - that terror bombing doesn't work.

Strategic bombing is not much of an option for Israel because Hamas operates very few traditional material-production facilities that could be targeted.

It’s also pretty dishonest to frame the conflict from Oct7 as some isolated event. Like the charge of genocide rests only on the events of the past hundred days.

I don't remember claiming that.

It should also be stated that Dresden is often used as a whataboutism by Holocaust deniers and Nazi apologists.

I'm well aware. That doesn't change that the British policy was explicitly one of terror bombing in retribution for Nazi terror bombing campaigns. Dresden got its reputation because British and American bomber command both agreed Dresden had to go for different reasons, which meant they got it double compared to most other targets.