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[quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous]Israel should respond to every rocket attack with a devastating artillery barrage. Keep killing the Palestinians until they quit or are all dead.[/quote]

That is the current strategy. How's it working?[/quote]

Israel is targeting terrorists, not the general Palestinian population.[/quote]

In that case, Israel has really bad aim. Israel has killed more Palestinian children than fighters. [/quote]

That is not true.  According to al Jazeera,  82% of those killed were men with 66% being between 18-38 and a large portion bring older than 38.

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I don't know where al-Jazeera is getting it's numbers or if you quoted al-Jazeera correctly, but the Washington Post has an interactive graphic here using UN figures:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/world/gaza-counter/

It shows 87 armed Palestinians killed and 144 children killed (out of 443 Palestinian civilians).

Edit: Here is a second report, but I think based on the same UN report, that shows similar figures:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/palestinianauthority/10984259/Revealed-the-Palestinian-children-killed-by-Israeli-forces.html

This one has the name and age of each child killed. 
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Al Jazeera has no reason to lie about this. An organization who states their mission is to protect human rights in Gaza is probably getting their 'data' directly from Hamas.

The UN gave missiles they found back to Hamas. And they are going after Israel for war crimes?  Please!

The blatant accusations that Israel is deliberately killing children shows a lack of logic on the part of the posters. It's as if people want to latch to a cause to fill holes in their lives, rather than think for themselves. [/quote]

I didn't say that Al-Jazeera lied. I said I didn't know where they got their numbers. You have done anything to clarify that. I also suggested that you had not quoted their numbers correctly and you have not done anything to clarify that either. There is no doubt that Israel has deliberately targeted children in the sense that Israel knew full well that when it pulled the trigger, children would die. To put it another way, Israel willingly accepts the death of children as part of its targeting decisions.

Can you provide a link supporting your allegation that the UN gave missiles back to Hamas?

You seem to indicate a desire for people to think for themselves, but then you fail to provide any kind of support for your claims. I'd like to think for myself by evaluating your sources rather than mindlessly accepting your word. 
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