because of the wildly different casualty ratios between Israeli and Palestinian deaths, Israel's intent has become irrelevant.

2 claims that are false IMO:

-Palestinian claim that Israel has intent to kill civilians: are there individuals/a group within the Israeli military with this intent, 100% certain. But I don't think that there is an organised top down plan to make this happen. Now I do think that the Israeli top (government + military) just don't care how many civilians get caught in the middle.

-Israeli claim that they do everything that's possible to make sure there are no Palestinian civilian victims: false or they are the most clumsy and incompetent elite military force in the world.

They have objectified Palestinian civilians as collateral damage. Same thing can be seen at border crossings where a lof of the 19yo Israeli soldiers act like übermenschen when they insult Palestinian women and men. (I get the irony and weight of the word, but I will not apologize, because the word is fitting when you see the other side as nothing more than pigs and caddle)

by callisto on 01/06/2009 09:17:19 AM EST

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