John Marchioro writes: > So you take the above, the hijacking > of ambulances, and you score it on a scale of 1 to 10 from less to more > heinous, along with the following: > > 1. Hamas' firing of rockets into Israel, which has resulted in 5 deaths at > last count.
10 > 2. The killing of more than 500 people in Gaza, mostly civilians and many > of whom were women and children, by the IDF (and not in retaliation for > the firing of rockets, mind you; the ceasefire broke down for the reasons > already noted in the pieces cited here by Ha'aretz, Helena Cobban, Sarah > Roy, etc., and the same was stated in an article in the "Economist" in > November 2008) 10 for the killing of civilians, accounting for roughly 25% of the deaths and 1 for the killing of Hamas militants, the remaining 75%, so if we take proportionality into account, we get 2.5. > 3. The dropping of cluster bombs on civilians in southern Lebanon by the > IDF, not once but repeatedly over the years. 10 But you again conveniently forgot to include rocket attacks by Hezbollah on Israeli civilians in northern Israel, which I again give: 10 If the hijacking of ambulances by Palestinian gunmen has resulted in the deaths of civilians that might have been saved had the ambulances been available rather than being used as troop carriers, then in those cases I again give: 10 Apparently about 50% of the ambulances in Gaza have been taken out of service due to the atrocious disregard for human life exhibited by Hamas, so let's again use your favorite "proportionality" phrase and cut this number in half to: 5 If the militaries on both sides want to beat the hell out of each other, let them go at it. That is what they signed up to do. But I wish that they would stop targeting civilians or intentionally causing them to be in the line of fire. Regards, Alan Siegrist Orinda, CA, USA --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Persons posting messages to not_honyaku assume all responsibility for their messages. The list owner does not review messages, and accepts no responsibility for the content of messages posted. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
