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Originally Posted by willravel
Oops! Strawman! This is why it's so difficult to have a discussion about Israel: if you take a stand against the policies of Israel, everyone assumes that you hate Israel. Let me make this clear: no one is saying that Israel should bend over. All that we, or at least I, am saying is that killing innocent people shouldn't be plan A. That's all. It was a mistake to kill those people, it's not a mistake to respond to terrorism.
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Killing innocents isn't plan A. You take the fact that civilians have been killed and blow it into a "Israel is purposely attacking civilians!" type of argument (Which is simply a lie). Israel isn't targetting civilians. They're targetting the social structure in order to weaken Hezbollah.
I suppose that, following your logic, the United States tried to kill Japanese civilians when they dropped the atom bomb on Hiroshima or that allied forces tried to kill German civilians during WWII by bombing German civilians. Their aim was simply to kill civilians.
No matter what Israel does, civilians will die-- It's an inevitable part of war-- And you would still be criticizing Israel for their actions. It's smarter for Israel to bomb key social structures then it is to march soldiers into Lebanon and have many more civilian casualties.