You obviously don't give a flying ****. Luckily for the Lebanese, Israel does. Whether that's because we're simply trying to avoid international accusations as much as possible while still beating the **** out of Hezbollah, or whether we truly do try to limit collateral damage and civilian casualties because they're not our targets is left for the reader to decide.
And stop your utter nonesense about Israel having sunk to the level of the Hezbollah already, m'kay? You're not convincing anybody, and flagrantly false accusations like that just make you look ignorant. Terrorists' aim is to cause terror, to harm and kill civillian populations, in order to achieve a certain goal. Israel's not aiming at civvies, we're aiming at a semi-rogue terrorist organization who are often deeply entrenched among the Lebanese civillian population who are firing hundreds of ball-bearing-filled rockets on our main cities and minor towns per day. Our goal is to kill them, not civvies. The moment our goal turns to killing civvies, I'll let you know, and the you and the rest of the world can call us terrorists without me saying a thing.
Until then, cut the BS.
I apologise if i've annoyed you, but coming from an outside perspective, the picture looks a little different. Yes, Israel does care about Lebanese civilian casualties, but the fact of the matter is that Israel is prepared to kill Lebanese civilians in order to attack Hezbollah, which is plain as day unless you can show me otherwise. And yet, you seem adamant that Israel is far above Hezbollah from a moral perspective. Let's just think about that for a second.
Hezbollah's aim is to destroy Israel, that's obvious. They use terror-oriented tactics because attempting to go toe-to-toe with the IDF would be suicide. From looking at the news, you'd think that Hezbollah targets only Israeli civilians, which isn't an unfair assessment recently as they've been attacking mostly civilian areas in northern Israel as of late. But in fact Hezbollah dislike the express targeting of civilians, as evidenced by their denouncement of the WTC-attacks. Moreover, it's
definitely worth nothing that only about a
third of Israeli casualties from Hezbollah have been civilian! Basically, Hezbollah aims to hurt Israel, and civilians get killed in the process. Sound familiar?
Now, obviously Israel isn't just targetting Lebanese civilians or, as you said several pages ago, there'd be a bugger-load more civilian casualties. I never said that Israel's goal was to kill Lebanese civilians, and I never said that Israel
intentionally killed Lebanese civilians. I'll thank you to kindly stop putting words in my mouth. What I
am saying is that Israel is prepared to put the lives of Israeli citizens above that of Lebanese civilians. I'm sure you'll fire back as you have in the past with 'one airstrike is allowed for every dozen proposed' and soforth, and that's fair. But the fact remains, if Israeli civilians are under threat from Hezbollah rockets, the IDF
will attack the rocket position even if it is in the middle of a civilian area, which I sincerely doubt is allowed by international law [of course, i'm just making an assumption here, but it's a damned safe assumption]. You'll notice that as such Israel's attacks fall into the definition of
terrorism:
ter·ror·ism
n.
The unlawful use or threatened use of force or violence by a person or an organized group against people or property with the intention of intimidating or coercing societies or governments, often for ideological or political reasons.
Call me ignorant, pedantic, whatever. By killing civilians in an attempt to destroy Hezbollah, Israel has sunk to their level and is
acting [i'll conceed I was out of line to imply they were terrorists outright, I could have worded that better] like the very terrorists they are trying to quell.
Edit: And once a-****ing-gain Adlo swoops in and says everything I was trying to say in a far more succinct manner while i'm still trying to say it. Bastard.
