“Look, it’s easy, when we do it, that means it’s for the good of all that’s right in the world, but when they do it, it proves they’re the horrible monsters we’ve been saying they are.”
“They do it, we say they do it, what’s the difference?”
As we all know, only brown people can be human shields and fair game as collateral damage.
It’s almost like everyone involved in this shitshow is awful.
Much like US domestic politics.
Much like US politics, there’s a wiiiiide spectrum of awful with clear good guys and bad guys in a relative sense without a viable alternative.
interesting pivot
There is a difference between being “near” and “under”.
In the first case, unless your missile/bomb is shitty, you should be able to hit the target without collateral damages. On the second, except by telling in advance where you are gonna bomb, there is no way to avoid collateral damage. That a case where the population is used as human shield.Still, taking that into account, especially with the latest development in drones, Israel could have used a less destructive approach. But that would have required them to go out in the open, and I doubt they would. The only option left is to wait for another opportunity, or to go for it with their bunker buster bombs, despite all the collateral damage it would do. Considering the little respect Israel military has for Arabs lives, the answer was the later.
Israel/Palestine, a magical land where access to PGMs determines whether or not a military is guilty of war crimes.
Is it not insane how we have seen repeated war crimes from both parties for nearly an entire year, and here we are talking about whether you could avoid hitting a hospital if you had precision guided munitions?
Both sides are guilty of war crimes, and that bombing is a war crime in my opinion. Still, The Hezbollah have a lot of other option other than building bunkers under civilian building. If they can dig under that, they can dig under a mountain, a field, or anywhere else where their presence wouldn’t put others in danger.
So tell me, other than using it as a shield, why dig a bunker under a civilian building ?
In this case Hamas has no access to precision missiles only dumb rockets. Hezbollah has missiles but I doubt their accuracy would be as precise.
They would both likely hit the hospital if they fired a barrage at the headquarters.
Very probably, indeed. And most, if not all, would be intercepted by the iron dome. I also doubt they have the required range.
I wonder if their Iranian sponsors could.
The Iron Dome’s weakness has been demonstrated by Hamas. Just lob enough trash at it to overwhelm it. But firing a ton of low-cost projectiles means they won’t be accurate whatsoever.
Iran hit an israeli airbase with their missiles in April even with all the advance warnings so it’s likely they could bypass the Iron Dome.
