Re:Hezbollah pager explosions kill several people in Lebanon
by dredmorbius on Wednesday September 18, 2024 @02:20PM
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That was the point of the second paragraph of my comment, and of "Israel's history is decidedly chequered in this regard" in my first post to this subthread.
Israel have the technical capability to minimise casualties. In practice they've acted at best capriciously, and arguably to maximise them.
Though this differs from many of their counterparties who either kill indiscriminately or target civillians specifically (e.g., 7 Oct 2023; Qassam rockets, which are dumb steel pipes fueled with sugar and fertiliser and tipped with explosives, bus and cafe bombings, etc.).
And yes, Israel has its own history of capricious bombings as well:
Many people strongly condemn Israel's post-7-October-2023 actions within Gaza, and I am among them. Hamas are a legitimate target, the civilian Palestinian population and infrastructure are not.
I'm trying to convey that the situation here is complicated and that all parties behave, at least at times, quite badly. I am not partisan to either Israel or the Palestinians, though I often sympathise generally with their people's relative plights, both of them.
Israel have the technical capability to minimise casualties. In practice they've acted at best capriciously, and arguably to maximise them.
Though this differs from many of their counterparties who either kill indiscriminately or target civillians specifically (e.g., 7 Oct 2023; Qassam rockets, which are dumb steel pipes fueled with sugar and fertiliser and tipped with explosives, bus and cafe bombings, etc.).
And yes, Israel has its own history of capricious bombings as well:
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_David_Hotel_Bombing> (1946)
Many people strongly condemn Israel's post-7-October-2023 actions within Gaza, and I am among them. Hamas are a legitimate target, the civilian Palestinian population and infrastructure are not.
I'm trying to convey that the situation here is complicated and that all parties behave, at least at times, quite badly. I am not partisan to either Israel or the Palestinians, though I often sympathise generally with their people's relative plights, both of them.