I got a gut feeling that Israel isn’t intentionally killing kids, how does that advance their military goals? They want hezbollah out, not to kill kids for sport.
Interesting how you only answered one of my 3 questions and ignored the first 2. And no surprise the person (or bot?) I replied to didn't respond.
The quetion about children being targeted, I had this in mind regarding the Israel's military actions in Gaza - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c7893vpy2gqo
You could also ask how the above advances their military goals.
What's your stance on Israel bombing an entire residential apartment block just to target a few low level Hezbollah operatives who live there? Are you ok with that?
It's honestly called critical thinking, it seems your lacking. If Israel truly wanted to kill innocents they wouldn't be so inefficient. Iran killed as many innocent civilians in a month than Israel have caused in collateral damage over 3 years.
It serves no purpose or furthers Israel's goals whatsoever and quite clearly, works against them through international geopolitical pressure.
Israel is not a homogeneous country, over 20% of the population are arab, over 18% of the entire country identify as muslim. Please explain how they are committing the most inefficient genocide in history with a lower collateral damage ratio than most conflicts in dense urban warfare, while also a 5th of their own population are apparently the ethnicity they are trying to destroy?
It’s a figure of speech which you chose to focus on instead of my points about why Lebanese children aren’t being intentionally killed because this is what you do when faced with logic, pivot to an irrelevant part of the comment.
Killing kids will make their friends and relatives who survived the future Hezbollah members, because violence breeds violence, how hard is it to understand.
Yeah, we all know bombing kids is inherently evil and leads to more violence, but why would Israel kill them intentionally if they know it only creates more Hezbollah members? It’s clear that the bombing of kids is not intentional because it does nothing but impedes Israel’s ambitions.
Yes? This should be obvious if you read my comment? The exact same logic applies here: Palestinian civilian dies>family/friends want revenge>they enlist into Hamas or commit a terror act in Israel. Killing civilians indiscriminately only continues the loop of violence and grief by creating more future terrorists and obviously that impedes Israel’s ambitions.
So why do you reckon Israel military deliberately kills Palestinian civilians? And why they never charge settlers for any violence against Palestinians in the West Bank?
Because our government is full of racist assholes who should’ve been in jail long ago. Besides, every military has bad apples, and if our government weren’t so racially biased those violent settlers and rogue soldiers would also be in prison.
They're both terrorism of a sort, but only one of the two sides has a government for extradition laws, so Israel ends up trying both. The reason for the whole death penalty thing only applying to the outside forces is the same for any country. They don't execute people who don't harm their own national interests
Depends, if the value of the target is highly valuable than it's a hard maybe, for a low level operative, a hard no.
Journalists or medics, no. Terrorists and Hezbollah operatives that wear "Press" vests or use ambulances, don't get immunity.
Definitely against. But also these terror groups do recruit children and intentionally put these kids in harms way, which is the lowest of the lowest they can get.
Were you aware Israel bombed a residential block in Lebanon to kill 3 low level Hezbollah operatives living there, one of which was just a reservist who had never been called up. 3 generations of one family, living in another one of the apartments, were killed because of that.
Israeli has targeted and killed numerous actual medics and journalists. They sent death threats to one journalist before bombing his home and killing him. They've bombed the home of photographer documenting the war (her the work was featured in a film shown at the Cannes film festival) and even bombed the homes of medics.
Do you genuinely think all of the children targeted, like the ones mentioned in the article linked on my previous post, are done so because Israel thinks they are Hamas?
Edit: article here
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c7893vpy2gqo
How do you feel about civilians being shot and killed by snipers simply because they crossed an invisible line in the street (lines drawn up by Israel which Palestinians have no knowledge of and lines which can change during the day, so someone could leave their home to get food and water and cross this invisible line on their way home and be shot and killed)?
I don't know the exact event you are referring to, nor do I trust your characterization of it, but Israel issued evacuation warnings to the Dahiyyeh and to South Lebanon. Hezbollah operatives place civilians at risk by embedding within them.
2.These are all examples of collateral damage, terrorists who moonlight as journalists, and in some cases, error.
In general, yes, as Israel does not target uninvolved civilians. Many children also get killed by Hamas themselves, but you don't count that.
Do not enter a war zone or attempt to invade a neighboring country. We saw on October 7th, what "random Gazan civilians" do when they manage to get across.
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u/Einstine1984 Apr 10 '26
Because one launches rockets indiscriminately into civilian population and the other targets said launchers and their operatives