re: #35 sliv_the_eli

I wholeheartedly agree. It is no accident that the mistranslation of the prohibition on murder is reflexively trotted out by the antisemites as soon as Israel acts to defend itself.

It’s still good to keep in mind that innocents will die, and they will die from the actions of Israelis. If nothing else, it is always a terrible thing that we ask soldiers to do, to kill. We can blame the Palestinians for fighting from inside a civilian environment, but in the end it is still true that Israeli response inevitably winds up with civilian casualties. It is not good to blithely dismiss their deaths, any more than it is to fetishize their deaths and use it against Israel.