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Originally Posted by Aquillion
The thing is, though, that just because terrorists are using innocent victims as human shields does not give you the right to dismiss those innocents as collateral damage. If there was a terrorist incident here in the US, do you think our police could just blow up a city block where the terrorists were hiding? Do you think the police could open fire in a crowd to hit a terrorist, and later excuse their actions by saying it's the terrorist's fault for running into a crowd in the first place? If a terrorist hid on your block, would you be fine with the military bombing your house into the ground and killing your family to get the bad guy? If their later explanation was just that it was the terrorist's fault for hiding in your house, and they have no responsibility, do you really think that would suffice?
I have some sympathy for Israel, since their current situation has no easy answer. But the fact that it's horrible for a terrorist to use human shields doesn't make it any less horrible to simply dismiss those human shields as collateral damage.
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israel got 2 choice, retaliate or not retaliate. they don't have a 3rd choice and not retaliate means a quick political death to whoever is in charge. So that not a real choice as well.
Palestians do have a choice. They can choose to do nothing and become human shields for Hamas and human colleteral damage in media reports or they can stop being Human shield and not let Hamas fire rockets form thier homes. if Hamas is not firing rockets form where the oridinary people are then the oridinary people won't become colleteral damage when israel retaliate.