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Originally Posted by Sephiroth
@Andrew & @Pierre
You may consider comparisons with WW2 unhelpful, but I disagree. The psychology of war is eternal, imo. Hatred and/or territory.
Please remember, that I'm tilting at the position being taken by jfman, whose posts are very one sided.
As to Andrew's remark about "standards" - no, the Geneva Convention applied then as it does now.
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Technology has changed. People's access to a range of media that provides a more rounded view of events, and information more rapidly and graphically have changed. People's reaction to the Dresden bombings would likely have been different if they saw the results on their TV screens every morning.
And whilst the law always plays catch up to technology and social change, that has changed too, as Hugh has outlined.
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Originally Posted by nomadking
If the whiners could provide the Israelis with the definite locations of Hamas military targets, then no problem. There isn't a clearly defined front line with targets in open view to aim at.
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It's not really a constructive way to engage with others by calling them whiners. You wouldn't call someone that in a debate down the pub so why do it online?
