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I am also annoyed at the title of this thread, considering that no one knows exactly what happened.
It seems that it is designed to troll.
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Twenty Palestinians - the highest single-day death toll in more than two years - were killed on the first day of the army's ``Operation Rainbow'' offensive. The victims included a 13-year-old boy and his 16-year-old sister.
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It's right there in the article. Reported incidentally, but still there.
As for the murders reported in the main body of the article, do you discredit these because they have only been reported by Palestinians?
Just a point of terminology. If a soldier is killed in a combat situation, for example as an occupying force in a foreign country, it does not usually constitute murder, as it does not ordinarily fulfil the criterion of unlawfulness.
When civilians are killed in a situation where they have not initiated any military engagement, it is murder.
The title of this thread was not intended to troll. I phrased it in a way that I hoped would attract attention, because I feel it is an important issue and something that people should know about.
As far as I understand the situation, the title of this thread was simply a statement of fact.
When armed adults wilfully kill innocent children, it is murder.
If a neighbour of the child killed a neighbour of the adult, it is still murder.
Whether the adult is an Israeli or a Palestinian or any other nationality, it is murder.
Whether the adult is part of a well-trained, well-funded, well-armed, well-organised army or part of a rabble of thugs and psychopaths scratched up from a country too deprived to have any real military organisation, it is murder.
Why then, if I am not trolling, do I choose to post relating to murder committed by the Israelis, when I have never posted one about murder committed by Palestinians?
Because I feel that the atrocities commited by the Israelis against the Palestinians receive shamefully little press attention compared to those committed by Palestinians against Israelis.
Perhaps it is different in the US, but to give an example from the British press, a Palestinian suicide bombing will typically be reported every night for about a week from the day it was initially reported, when it will be the headlining item in most places.
Today the headlining TV news item on all the channels I saw was that somebody had thrown some harmless purple powder at the Prime Minister and that nobody was distressed or hurt.
This is wrong.
Edit: As a show of good will, I have edited the title of the thread to imply that the events have so far only been alleged. For those joining the thread since then, the title originally lacked the word 'allegedly'.