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Originally Posted by 1701-e
The term shooting at anything that moves seems to fit.
Damm the consequences
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Quite.
I missed the detail last night but when I got thinking about it “any armed man” is a target when the rule of law has broken down in Gaza and undoubtedly people will be carrying weapons to protect themselves and their families.
It doesn’t have to be a conspiracy theory for Israel to be condemned - there’s enough detail, and facts, in their own statements to do so. Being “at war” is a state Israel has absolutely chosen to put themselves in at this stage, against now universal calls to stop.
It doesn’t exempt them from their duties to protect civilians (including aid eorkers). The “mistake” was entirely avoidable if they simply gave more weight to the aid workers lives in their decision making. Allowing a single armed man, who may or may not be a terrorist, to flee is unlikely to impact significantly on the future security of Israel or its citizens. As it stands there’s no actual confirmation they hit this target regardless of whether he was a legitimate target or not.
Sadly, had these aid workers been from the far east or Africa we’d have seen little of the condemnation and none of the apology. It’d be business as usual for the self styled “most moral army in the world”.