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Originally Posted by Doctorfever
The amount of Palestinian casualties that are ‘acceptable’ is an incredibly difficult question to answer. From Israel’s perspective, they might just think they are going to accomplish their goal of eliminating Hamas (or they surrender) no matter what the casualties are.
If Hamas believes that there is a limit, they will have the human shields out in full force, trying to get to that number sooner, to save their own forces. I guess even if Hamas doesn’t think there is a limit, but there are lots of civilian lives lost, maybe there is increased outside pressure on Israel to call a cease fire.
Fighting a terrorist group just is not fair, when they don’t value life over death the way you do.
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It’s definitely not fair, and it’s difficult, and lives are going to be lost regardless of what you do.
But we have maintain some moral standard. We can’t sit around and say “Look at all these dead babies Hamas killed! This is a tragedy! This is horrible!” and then shrug when the cost of doing war is the “good” side killing 20x more children.
It’s difficult to answer “how many,” sure. But it shouldn’t be as difficult as it is to feel the same thing for a Palestinian child that people felt for an Israeli child. And, honestly, I think it’s very difficult for some people and I don’t know why.