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.
The pedestrians walking down the street and the guests killed were not targeted altogether. And when the bombs were placed against weight-bearing pillars and the timers were set, the Irgun sent warnings in plenty of time that the hotel would be bombed, but those warnings were ignored.
This is the core distinction between collateral damage and deliberately inflicted civilian casualties. The question is whether precautions were taken to avoid civilian casualties, and were those precautions reasonable under the circumstances. Or were civilian targets deliberately aimed at, and maximized.