[Uncle Miltie]

Civilian casualties are primarily ham ass's war crime, since they violate the Geneva Convention and use civilians as human shields, as documented by the U.N. here:

UN report outlines how Hamas used kids as human shields

https://cufi.org/issue/un-report-outlines-how-hamas-used-kids-as-human-shields/

[BobL]

“Col. Richard Kemp: IDF kills fewer civilians per combatant than most other armies”

Screw that...just tell them to F-O and that Israel will fight as they see fit (and hint, that DOES NOT include needlessly harming civilians).

[mythenjoseph]

Its war,maybe next time (and their will be a next time) muzzies will try a different approach? I hope Israel runs all of them into the neighboring countries and shows NO MERCY. Been watching this garbage since the 60’s...kill all the islamic that you can find.

[frank ballenger]

A Middle East policy expert I saw interviewed about a month ago said the most efficient and least costly to Israel in terms of IDF losses would be a crushing overhwelming military advance against Hamas. But he said Israel always inhibits its military and deliberately takes casualties in situations to avoid too many civilians dying in raids. But gets no credit for that from the world.

He cited good methods of Putin a few years ago in the 2nd Chechan War (60,000 dead) and Chinese killing Muslims in China.

Some great info. about the Chinese:
(Maybe give this to Dem voting people, especially naive young ones, at Christmas vacation time.)

Since 2017, between 800,000-2,000,000 million Uyghurs have been held in Xinjiang’s concentration prisons, commonly referred to as “re-education camps.” Uyghurs are forced to participate in CCP indoctrination programs in which detainees are forced to abandon their Muslim faith and culture. The CCP forbids use of the Uyghur language and imposes Mandarin Chinese within these camps. Inside camps, CCP officials subject Uyghurs to physical beatings, sexual assault, and gang rapes of women.

The Chinese government’s family planning program restricts Uyghur and Turkic Muslim reproduction, preventing births in violation of Article 2d of the Genocide Convention. According to Adrian Zenz, between 2015 and 2018, East Turkistan’s Uyghur population growth rate fell by 84%. State-sponsored forced inter-racial marriages between Uyghur women and Han Chinese men are part of “family planning” policies, as are female sterilizations, forced abortions, mass rapes, and sexual torture. The CCP forces Uyghur women to live with Han Chinese men in Uyghur homes. The CCP forcibly removes Uyghur children from their homes and places them in residential schools where they are forbidden to speak the Uyghur language, a violation of Genocide Convention Article 2e.

After “reeducation,” Uyghurs are forced to work harvesting cotton and other Chinese export products. They are subjected to a modern form of slavery. The CCP’s direct attack on Uyghur Muslim religion now includes destruction of Uyghur mosques.
From:https://www.genocidewatch.com/single-post/chinese-genocide-of-uyghurs-in-xinjiang-continues

[Paal Gulli]

The religious Jews take very seriously the sanctity of human life. In Judaism, killing is a sin, even if it's justified, so even killing with justification is bad enough, what they don't want is to have it escalate to murder by including killings that weren't justified.

In most cases, killing can be justified if the threat to life is imminent. In America we would say, "Yeah, Osama's bound to try it again, so let's kill him." But in Israel, the argument becomes a hair-splitting contest over whether the threat is imminent. And there's always some Rabbi who'll argue "He might still have a change of heart if we wait just a little longer."