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To: GST who wrote (196488)	8/9/2006 7:46:00 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Unless unarmed UN observers are "the enemy", then blowing up the building with a direct precision airstrike is hardly "collateral damage". It is since Hezbollah was launching attacks from all around the building. Non-combatants should leave the battle field. Unfortunately it's not always possible for non-combatants to leave, for many reasons (including sometimes one side forcing them to become human shields against the other side) so sometimes they get killed. If Israel refuses to fire anytime a non-combatant might be killed, all that Hezbollah needs to do is secure some hostages and they have won the war. They could even march to Tel Aviv while the Israelis held there fire. For Israel to accept such a policy is little different then unilaterally disarming. Would Hezbollah accept such a policy even if Israel did? Of course not, they WANT civilian casualties, on both sides. They want Israelis dead because they hate Israel, and they want Lebanese civilians (and also UN observers or other non-combatants) dead because they can use those deaths as a propaganda tool against Israel.