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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: sylvester80 who wrote (195758)8/7/2006 5:02:40 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
When the Israeli kill ratio of 10:1 civilians to fighters that IS outright murder.

1 - I have no reason to think that the reported kill ration is accurate. It could easily be lower than 10 to 1.

2 - Even if its 100 to 1, the ratio itself does not determine whether an act is murder or not.

So it is in the Israeli best interests to lie and raise the Hezbollah fighter kills cause this ratio shows them as targeting almost exclusively civilians.

The Israeli statements are was talking about was their reports about their own military casualties. It might be just slightly in their interest over the very short run to lie and say the numbers are lower, but Israel is an open society and any attempt to lie in that way would blow up in the Israeli government's face very quickly. So they would be trading an extremely small short term interest for a very short term, for something that in the longer term could bring down the government. I suppose its possible that Israel's leaders are idiots on a scale rarely seen in the world, but I don't think it is particularly likely.

As far as the reports of Hezbollah deaths, is Israel even the source for them? I know Hezbollah releases its own unbelievably low figures. I don't think Israel has released any detailed information.
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