Thank you. I figured whoever posted it just decided to call it that, but nope... Unfortunately it's also right there in the article. I don't understand why they'd use it when so many other established terms are way more suitable, for example Carpet Bombing.
What Israel is doing is fucked up, but it's not scorched earth.
I loved Sync for Reddit as an app. But I already was seeing Reddit go downhill even before they killed the apps, that just sealed the deal for me. I was a digg refugee so sadly I've been through this before already.