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[quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele]This is interesting:

http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/.premium-1.608108

"In a briefing on Tuesday with reporters, a senior officer of Southern Command said that the IDF had not given the order to evacuate the kibbutzim near the border so as “not to give Hamas a victory.” He emphasized that the IDF was totally capable of defending the civilians there, and that in none of the seven attempts thus far by Hamas to use tunnels for cross-border attacks was there any contact between the Hamas fighters and civilians."

So, neither the tunnels nor the rockets present a true threat to Israeli civilians, who are supposed to remain in their homes so as to "not to give Hamas a victory." Either this is correct and the threat has been greatly exaggerated, or those civilians are "human shields."

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Israels ability to defend against a threat doesn't negate the threat.  Wearing a bullet proof vest doesn't make it ok to shoot someone. [/quote]

That's fine, but then perhaps the IDF shouldn't be telling the folks to stay there in order to "not to give Hamas a victory". That's kind of human sheildy.
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I don't understand why you think that.  Telling civilians to stay bc thry will be protected is very different that stay there bc  either thry will abort the attack or you'll be a martyr. [/quote]

You can't have it both ways. If the tunnels and rockets present such a threat to Israeli civilians that Israel can only respond by killing over 1,300 Palestinians, then Israeli civilians should not be encouraged to remain in the targeted areas. If there is no threat to the civilians, then the mass slaughter of Palestinians doesn't seem justified (not that it seemed that way in the first place, but now even less so).

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