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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNY TIMES: Israel bombs building where it urged Palestinians to take shelter
Speaking in general, a senior Israeli military official said in a recent interview that not all civilian casualties come from strikes going astray; some take place when civilians are in places the military aims to hit.
Not all the casualties are due to mistakes, he said. If Hamas are holding people inside the apartments while shooting from there, thats one of the tragedies they are making.
That did not appear to be the situation at the Abu Jameh home, where, survivors said, the family was gathered to break its daily Ramadan fast, a ceremonial meal, a time when Israeli military officials would have known that people were likely to be home.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/22/world/middleeast/questions-about-tactics-and-targets-as-civilian-toll-climbs-in-israeli-strikes.html?_r=0
Comrade Grumpy
(13,184 posts)He opens his mouth to speak, and corpses fall out.
HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)samsingh
(17,598 posts)enough
(13,259 posts)that salient fact quite far down, and the headline refers only to "Questions about tactics and targets."
yurbud
(39,405 posts)yurbud
(39,405 posts)"We didn't censor anything--the damning information is still there."
But instead, they just give it an ambiguous, dull title, and bury the most provocative part, which is theoretically the opposite of what newspapers are supposed to do.
G_j
(40,367 posts)conservaphobe
(1,284 posts)Israel has a right to defend itself...
But there are lines that should never be crossed.
And Netanyahu crosses them often.
yurbud
(39,405 posts)He sounds and looks like "one of us," so we don't judge him as harshly even though Palestinians are mostly about as much like us as average Israelis.
n2doc
(47,953 posts)Another similar story in the LA Times
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025279721
AgingAmerican
(12,958 posts)They would drop leaflets on Stalingrad telling women and children to gather at the train station to be evacuated safely at a certain time. When the time came, they bombed the crap out of them.
kelliekat44
(7,759 posts)malaise
(268,997 posts)There is no way around this
kelliekat44
(7,759 posts)And Israel has spoofed the RW evangelicals with Bible lore.
bigtree
(85,996 posts). . . reminds me of Lebanon.
Chasstev365
(5,191 posts)"They hate us for are Freedoms" (Not for our blind support of an immoral, ultra-right wing Israeli government)
blackspade
(10,056 posts)Disgusting.
libodem
(19,288 posts)Will backfire on Zion. I fervently send out a white light of protection on all the European Innocents that may eventually bear the brunt of retaliation. I hate this eye for an eye barbaric behavior.
Mentally I place little iron domes over all the family stores and shops that assholes, in Europe, are attacking. They need to stop that, NOW.
uponit7771
(90,336 posts)...then bombing the location is a war crime.
countryjake
(8,554 posts)This is no tactic, it's indiscriminate slaughter.