From: CurtAdams@aol.com
Date: Tue Apr 09 2002 - 12:08:50 MDT
In a message dated 4/9/02 6:49:03, talon57@well.com writes:
>Sure, everybody here remembers all the pictures on T.V. of Israeli
>artillery lobbying shells randomly all over the West Bank and
>Gaza...
I get it from the newspaper. But, yes, after most suicide bombings,
I recall an Israeli attack on a Palestinian residential community
>Israelis targets are always related to the act involved, in the one
>apartment attack I remember recently, the Israelis fired a missile
>into an apartment building specifically targeting the home of an
>attacker. The message: enemies of Israel are not safe anywhere. I
>never saw a more surgical strike.
Considering that the suicide bombers are dead by the time this
happens, no strike could possibly be considered "surgical". I suppose
you would suggest seizing my assets to cover my brother's
near-bankruptcy?
>As regards attacks on the Palestinians if they use a shell it comes
>from a tank, which as anyone with military experience can tell you
>is completely different from an artillery shell.
It goes "boom" and kills nearby people regardless of guilt. I consider
these the relevant factors.
>The current Israeli sweep through the West Bank is using an
>absolute minimum of heavy armor and is house to house in hostile
>neighborhoods, yet the civilian causalities are by far the lowest
>ever for such an operation. As anyone with military experience can
>tell you this is usually where the highest rate of civilian
>causalities occur.
While the current sweep could certainly be worse, I've seen many
reports, including from foreign correspondants, of trigger-happy
soldiers and tragic *possibly* accidental deaths. Yes, the correspondants
tend to be Pallestinian-leaning since the Israelis are trying to exclude
reporters - but that very exclusion inclines me to believe the other
side. You don't cover up unless you've something to hide.
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