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To: GST who wrote (199130)	8/24/2006 3:58:48 PM
From: Ichy Smith	Respond to of 281500

....."The Israeli military seems to consider anyone left in the area a combatant who is fair game for attack," said Kenneth Roth, executive director of Human Rights Watch. So you are in an airplane and you drop a bomb, it hits a building where there is no bomb shelter and people are killed. You previously dropped leaflets and announced that you would be dropping bombs in the area. You are aware that your enemy has been firing missiles from the location below. As you pull the lever to drop the bomb you yell "look out below" You are quite a ways up in the air, no one listens. What else can you do?

To: GST who wrote (199130)	8/24/2006 4:45:34 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 281500

Ichy Smith's reply covers it pretty well. If you attack the enemy it isn't a war crime. Even if Israel hadn't dropped leaflets warning the civilians to leave the area (and incidently giving Hezbollah time to prepare for the attack) it would not have been a war crime. Its tragic, but that isn't enough to make for a war crime. Also apparently it was only 28 civilians that were killed in that strike not 54. It doesn't change the nature of the act, but if your going to level such accusations its best to be accurate as to the specific facts. "The Israeli military seems to consider anyone left in the area a combatant who is fair game for attack," Quoting Kenneth Roth's opinion doesn't make for established fact.