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A fair number of innocents get caught in the crosshairs of the Israel. A targeted assassination by Mossad killed the wrong man [1], Palestinian civilians have
by tsally 17y ago
A fair number of innocents get caught in the crosshairs of the Israel. A targeted assassination by Mossad killed the wrong man [1], Palestinian civilians have been used as human shields [2], Amnesty International found that Israeli military checkpoints are a "key cause of high rates of unemployment and poverty" among the Palestinians [3], and a UN report concluded that "there was strong evidence to establish that numerous serious violations of international law, both humanitarian law and human rights law, were committed by Israel during the military operations in Gaza" [4].
To be clear, I'm not taking a side on the Israeli Palestinian conflict. Crimes are being committed on both sides daily. The above evidence is presented only to debunk your claim that the Israeli approach "has no collateral damage and only a minor amount of innocents get caught in the cross hairs". That's a rather audacious claim given how messy Israel's struggle with Islamic militants is.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lillehammer_affair http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lillehammer_affair
[2] http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2003/jan/02/israel1 http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2003/jan/02/israel1
[3] http://www.amnesty.no/Web.nsf/e94cc2698ef66716c1256a03006a4d8a/30a889eda4ebbe0cc125700b003c21b4/$FILE/2005%20Report.pdf http://www.amnesty.no/Web.nsf/e94cc2698ef66716c1256a03006a4d...
[4] http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=32057&Cr=palestin&Cr1 http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=32057&Cr=pa...
- Flemlord 17y agoNot to justify either method, but that's a few orders of magnitude away from the "war on terror" casualties. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Iraq_War http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Iraq_War
- tsally 17y agoTrue, but the scale of the war on terror (based on populations of the countries involved) is a few orders of magnitude larger than the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. If you adjust the number of casualties for population, the two numbers become similar. Of course, this comparison is still a naive one, but it's a lot closer to reality than comparing the two conflicts by the raw number of casualties only.