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Originally posted by seretogis
I don't consider the killing of leaders of a terrorist organization to be "some terrible destruction". LD's point was not that Israel killed less people, but that they killed people guilty of mass-murder. It is unfortunate that 3-5 innocent people were also hit in the strike, but it was not Israel's intent to kill innocent people -- unlike the Hamas and other terrorist organizations. Israel doesn't kill every Palestinian because they are not a terrorist organization, and do not commit mass-murder.
Would you prefer that Israeli agents start strapping bombs to their chest and wait until they find Hamas leaders on populated busses, and then detonate themselves? Of course not.
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There seem to be two issues here and I have tried to keep them seperate:
1) The general destruction, bulldozing and imprisonment of Palestinian territoty by the Israelis. It is this that I associate with Liquor Dealer's words to the effect that:
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Israel has the capacity and the ability to annihilate the Palestinians and have not done so! It is nothing approaching state terrorism on their part - the Palestinians could all be gone when the sun comes up in the morning. I think they have showed remarkable restraint up to this point.
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2) The use of gunships to assassinate suspected terrorist leaders.
I have only addressed (2) in one line way back.
All the rest has been about (1) and whether we should praise Israel for being "restrained" in not "annihilating" the Palestinians.
So to recap: I am not associating the kiling of terrorist leaders with "some terrible destruction".
I AM associating the bulldozing of settlements, the shooting of small children and the indiscriminate damage that helicopter fired missiles and machine guns causes with "some terrible destruction".
I know there are two sides to this. But to take issue with LD's post I needed to discuss Israeli attrocities.