Atrocities That Pass in Silence

[nicky g]

"Also the results of both techniques are markedly different. One tactic is intended to save lives; the other to cost lives."

Are you serious? The intent is to save IDF lives at the expense of Palestinian civilian lives. That is completely immoral and illegal. You also betray an obvious truth about the IDF. Your argument supposes that Palestinian "terrorists" would hold their fire if a Palestinian civilian were being used as a shield (oh but I thought these terrible terrorists didn't care about harming civilians) - but that the IDF would not do the same. Too right. They also can't both be true. If the Palestinian "terrorists" cared so little about ther fellow civilians that they would deliberately hide amongst them in order to get as many as possible of them killed, the why would they hesitate to fire on a compatriot if it mean bagging a few soldiers too?