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Originally Posted by WCW Nitro
This always makes me laugh. Any country with advanced military capabilities can always say they are not targetting civilians. Any time civilians are killed by a direct hit, you can just say it was a mistake,something Israel has done hundreds of times during both the Lebanon and last Gaza war. If you remember those wars and all the ambulances, UN compounds, apartment buildings,etc that were hit you soon realize that Israel's claim of not targetting civilians is one big joke.
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I do feel at times that Israel plays loosely with the whole collateral damage thing, and they're more than willing to take out a few innocents if it means taking out a major bad guy (see Amos Harel's article
here), but you have to consider the statistics, as well.
The
civilian causality ratio is the ratio of civilian deaths to combatant deaths in any conflict. The IDF has the lowest civilian causality ratio in the
entire world. It's varied at different times from 2005 until now, from between 1:20 to 1:30, but this is still an amazing number, one that should probably be quoted a lot more often by people in this debate.