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AlexEvans · 03-28-2004, 11:20 AM

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Originally posted by Indri:
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How about if the target miss and kill many children palestine so you think there ist not Israel fault.

I thought Israel Army always target civilain eventhough they denied to kill terrorist but still they kill children and woman palestines.

And not surprise if America always doubt about what Israel do to palestines cuz they have reason to kill "Terrorism"</STRONG>

There are civilian casualties, because the terrorists surround themselves with human shields. Even though the Israeli defence forces take great risks, often sending in ground forces and limiting their use of air power, etc, they can't save everyone.

But failing to be perfect in an impossible situation is very different from targetting civilians - or from hiding behind them.

So no, no reasonable person can say that the civilian casualties are Israel's fault. In specific incidents they may be able to suggest room for improvement of Israeli tactics, possibly even in the current case we're discussing (I don't think so, but I'm not a tactical expert). Morally, the fault lies with the terrorists both for Israeli and for Palestinian civilian casualties.

The conflation of reasonable error and of moral blame is a major logical fallacy, and one that is all too common.

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