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Politics : Israel to U.S. : Now Deal with Syria and Iran -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: sea_urchin who wrote (11513)	7/14/2006 4:55:08 PM
From: AK2004	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 22250

re: were killed and injured while going about normal daily activities you should be aware though that international law is designed to prevent deliberate attacks against civilians. Terrorists do target civilians and IDF never targeted civilians. All of the IDF targets including bridges, airports, etc are legitimate military targets. On a flip side a deliberate attack against a civilian bus is a crime. re: In such circumstances of 734 Palestinian children being killed I would say the term "horrific numbers" is entirely justified it was already proven more than once that 734 is not correct and possible in double digits rather than triple. But that is not the point because the death of even one child is a tragedy. Geneva conventions do recognise the fact that any civilian death should be avoided. Geneva conventions also recognise the fact that any nation has the right to defend itself even if it may cause civilian death re: your Geneva Convention remarks that remark alone says a lot about you. Most of the normal people respect Geneva conventions as their law. Make your own conclusions now .....