Iran’s Top Nuclear Scientist Killed in Attack

Re:Iran’s Top Nuclear Scientist Killed in Attack by throwaway894345 on Friday November 27, 2020 @06:09PM (#25233389)

> Btw, 2014 Gaza war killed 5 Israeli civilians vs around 1500 Palestinian civilians (UN). It amazes me how Israel still manages to play the victim card in the western world.

Of course there were fewer Israeli casualties. Israel took the fight to Hamas for the express purpose of protecting Israeli lives. Safeguarding their own citizenry is the primary objective of any nation’s military, and Israel did that by fighting Hamas on their home turf (as opposed to inviting Hamas to fight inside Israel).

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Re:Iran’s Top Nuclear Scientist Killed in Attack by captain_price7 on Saturday November 28, 2020 @03:54AM (#25236351)

I was talking about only civilians, non-combatants, not Hamas terrorists.

I guess it was an honest mistake on your part, though there are too many people out there with "all Palestinian are terrorist" belief.

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Re:Iran’s Top Nuclear Scientist Killed in Attack by throwaway894345 on Saturday November 28, 2020 @06:48AM (#25237023)

The point is that by taking the fight to Hamas, they were fighting among Palestinian civilians and not among Israeli civilians, so naturally there would be more Palestinian civilian casualties. For the same reason that there are relatively fewer US casualties in any US foreign war (how many US civilian casualties were there in Afghanistan relative to Afghan civilian casualties?). Adding to that is the fact that Hamas hide among the Palestinian citizenry, making collateral damage all the more likely.

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