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Originally Posted by jeffman
But Ukrainians have been shelling civilians in DPR for 8 years
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Was the Ukrainian military targeting Russian civilians with the goal of killing as many as possible?
Why are people blurring the distinctions between deliberately trying to kill as many civilians as possible as an end to itself, and civilians dying as a consequence of military operations aimed to remove an enemy threat?
Civilians die in modern warfare. All modern wars. If civilians being killed in military operations is murder, then war is murder.
Hamas is an ongoing threat to Israel. Its removal is a legitimate military objective - no country would allow a threat like to remain on its doorstep. There is no way to remove that threat without invading and occupying Gaza in a military operation. Lots of civilians are doomed to die in such an invasion.
Hamas brought this down on the people of Gaza, as surely as Hitler and Japan’s leader’s brought immense suffering down on their people. But just as there was no way the Allies would have halted operations in mid-1944 because the people of Germany and Japan has suffered enough, there’s no way Israel will stop its operations until the threat from Hamas is removed.