Question: are we all certain that the reports of 'civilian deaths caused by Israel' are accurate? There's been a lot of unconditional acceptance of every assertion made against the Israelis in this thread so far...
My numbers came from a wikipedia article that seems to vary basing its numbers on media reports and government reports. The high numbers of civilians are of course provided the Lebanese government. Really, I'm just using the likely skewed numbers to make fun of Israel for seemingly failing to maintain a better military:civilian ratio than Hezbollah, which is firing missiles randomly into population centers.
Still, judging from the amount of foreign casualities and the direct accounts in media reports, there does seem to be a fairly high amount of civilian casualities. It's just haphazard extrapolation from the amount of Candians, Brazilians, and publiciced women & children, but I do believe that Israel is goofing up to some degree.
I've read the same article, and knew very well the source was not exactly unbiased.
Whenever I start to hear reports of how Israel (or the U.S.)
always hits innocent civvies and
never hits militants or insurgents, I get more than a little suspicious, shall we say.
It wouldn't surprise me if some civvies are getting caught in the crossfire of operations - inevitable when your enemy hides among the civilian population - but I highly doubt Israel (or, again, the U.S. in Iraq) is deliberately targeting civilians.
But just wait until there's a ground war...and all the arguments triple in intensity.
