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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
Israel has erred on the side of avoiding killing civilians to get their targets. Gaza would look very different today if it didn’t.
But again we’re confronted with the question of what to do about a ruthless enemy that hides among civilians. How to conduct a moral war against such an enemy? There’s no country in the world that puts the safety of enemy civilians above the safety of its own.
Do you consider the Battle of Mosul, where ISIS was defeated by a coalition of Iraqis, Kurds, and an international task force, to be a failure? More than 3,000 civilians were killed.
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A major issue for Israel is that if they do not act, Hamas treats this like a major victory and it not only emboldens them, but every other similar group in the region. Iran, unless its infrastructure is destroyed, will also begin pouring even more weapons into the region. Israel has to looks at future avoided casualties (on both sides) in their analysis.