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Originally Posted by _Opi_
Israel is NOT protecting civilian lives. That's the truth. The truth hurts. Stop overreacting.
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You haven't addressed the point that essentially refutes this:
Israel has been quite precise in its bombing, and has spent limited resources on attacks on civilian areas in the south of Lebanon and the Hezbollah-controlled southern suburbs of Beirut.
If Israel chose to ignore civilian lives, it would not show this sort of precision.
Are civilians killed? Yes - clearly. The reasons for this are essentially a.) propaganda techniques by Hezbollah that place tactical positions inside civilian encampments (which they've done since, oh, the 1970s - and we saw this in Iraq, as well, with Mosque encampments) and b.) the necessary collateral damage of war.
Note that this issue is NOT a matter of degree - that is to say, "just because Israel
could wipe the nation off the map, that does not mean they are doing well by not" - as I'm sure will be your initial reaction. However, I'm pretty sure you can't get around this point - especially when rockets are being fired indescriminately into Israeli civilian locations.
Can you actually address this point? No ad hominem, no political bias - no way for you to cop out here, I'm seriously interested.