The King David Hotel was being used by the Mandate for administrative purposes, and had all the intelligence files on Etzel, Tzahal and Lehi. It was a legitimate military target, and its destruction caused the Mandate to fold up its tent and punt to the United Nations, ultimately leading to our independence.
As for the Latvians, emotional gobledegook to obfuscate the fact that they were forced to wear their master’s collar in order to hunt. The hunt is over. Both the German and Soviet overlords are just a memory, and that uniform that they were forced to wear into battle is drenched in innocent blood, and not just collateral damage. You’d give them a pass? I wash my hands of them. You say they did not participate in the mass slaughter? Bully for them, but an SS uniform is still drenched in infamy.
So the folks walking down the street and the guests in the hotel that were killed, were legitimate targets? This is where you lose credibility. It’s much like Peter King, who rails against Islamic terrorism, while openly supporting the IRA.
We can agree to disagree on the Latvians.