Palestinian atrocities, Israeli retaliations and the laws of war

Israel Insider ^ | 3/11/2002 | Louis Rene Beres

[Israel Insider]

The cycle is familiar. Palestinian terrorists intentionally attack Israeli women and children. Israel, having absolutely no choice, retaliates against PLO infrastructures, aiming exclusively and conscientiously at military targets. But sometimes Israeli fire unavoidably kills and injures Palestinian noncombatants, creating the false impression of lawlessness on both sides. This delusionary view can be compared to an interpretation of current U.S. attacks against al-Qaida fighters which blames this country for harm done to Afghan civilians...(more)

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[alex]

It worked for Muslims in Bosnia, Kosovo and Makedonia, it worked for IRA, why they should not use the same tactic against Israel ? It did not work so well in Chechnya only because Russians have are not concern at all with killing Chechen civilians.

BTW, as far as I remember Israel supported Muslims in Bosnia and Kosovo.