Interesting ideas and well thought out, as always my friend.
Bombing a military target nestled inside a civilian population centre is always a tough and complicated issue. Conversely the practice of building a military facility in a civilian population centre is quite black and white. It is deliberately choosing to use civilians as human shields.
What you say about the decisions faced by the allies in WW2 is valid. But as I mentioned above, the original choice to put military targets like munitions factories in cities as inexcusable. That doesn't absolve the allies of blame or blood for the collateral damage of bombing German cities, but that same blood is on the Nazi regime's hands also.
Same thing in Palestine. When Palestinian militants hides-out among Palestinian civilians, the blood of the civilians is on the militants hands (wether they are bombed or not) and the IDF's hands if the IDF choose to bomb the militants despite the proximity of civilians. One could argue that that is better than Palestinian militants deliberately and directly targeting civilians with rocket attacks...but that doesn't make any of it 'okay' or justify anything.
On the topic of Israel verses Palestine, I am also sick of the lies. People act like Israel alone holds control of all of Palestine's borders...but they don't. People criticise the Israeli border control but no-one criticises the conduct of Eqypt and their border control. And both sides seem to blame the other for everything, and delight in political point-scoring.
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Date: 2010-07-04 05:12 am (UTC)Bombing a military target nestled inside a civilian population centre is always a tough and complicated issue. Conversely the practice of building a military facility in a civilian population centre is quite black and white. It is deliberately choosing to use civilians as human shields.
What you say about the decisions faced by the allies in WW2 is valid. But as I mentioned above, the original choice to put military targets like munitions factories in cities as inexcusable. That doesn't absolve the allies of blame or blood for the collateral damage of bombing German cities, but that same blood is on the Nazi regime's hands also.
Same thing in Palestine. When Palestinian militants hides-out among Palestinian civilians, the blood of the civilians is on the militants hands (wether they are bombed or not) and the IDF's hands if the IDF choose to bomb the militants despite the proximity of civilians. One could argue that that is better than Palestinian militants deliberately and directly targeting civilians with rocket attacks...but that doesn't make any of it 'okay' or justify anything.
On the topic of Israel verses Palestine, I am also sick of the lies. People act like Israel alone holds control of all of Palestine's borders...but they don't. People criticise the Israeli border control but no-one criticises the conduct of Eqypt and their border control. And both sides seem to blame the other for everything, and delight in political point-scoring.
Your conclusion paragraph is spot on.