Israeli Bus Blown Up After Soldiers Kill Militant

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?storyID=4044692

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" An explosion tore through a bus outside Tel Aviv on Thursday, killing at least three people, minutes after Israeli helicopter gunships killed a senior Islamic militant in Gaza City.

Israel's Channel Two television said the dead were among at least 10 casualties in the blast, which police said was probably the work of a Palestinian militant suicide bomber.

Israeli security sources and medics said the blast took place near a bus stop on a highway leading out of Israel's coastal metropolis."

And the same lame arguments regarding 'moral equivalancy' will be made. What should be obvious - whatever tactics ARE being employed are NOT working.

I think your post assumes that Israel can do anything that will end terror. I don't believe that to be the case.

That means that all Israel can do is limit terror and it is doing an effective job of that through periodic military action and building the Peace Fence.

I'm more of the 'pox on both their houses' school.

And if you believe that Israel is *only* taking 'periodic military action' and 'building the (insert eye roll) Peace Fence', then we disagree with much more than my meager point.

Intentionally murdering civilians is NOT EVEN CLOSE TO BEING EQUIVALENT for the deaths of "soldiers" not matter how preemptively you claim they should be.

If you care to defend the murder of civilians then do so directly rather than telling us why the death of Israeli civilians really isn't that important.

Wasn't sure where I defended the murder of civilians. Or, for that matter, where I had written that I thought the death of anyone wasn't that important. Not even sure how you interpreted it that way.

Killing combatant leadership in a war is, under the rules of war that people keep telling me is what we should use to discuss I/P is considered a perfectly legitimate wartime action.

Killing civilians by intentionally targeting them with no military target involved is a war crime under the same rules.

Saying the two are equivalent is saying that war crimes should be excused if Palestinians do them.

Was that simple enough?

I said - "The tit-for-tat cycle of violence continues. And the same lame arguments regarding 'moral equivalancy' will be made. What should be obvious - whatever tactics ARE being employed are NOT working."

You said that meant - "If you care to defend the murder of civilians then do so directly rather than telling us why the death of Israeli civilians really isn't that important."

So let me make it clearer for you. This *is* a tit-for-tat cycle of violence. You hit us, we hit you kind deal (see also - chicken and the egg scenario). It is not working. Lot's of people are dead that shouldn't be. It's getting worse. Ergo - tit-for--tat ain't working REGARDLESS of the lame 'moral equivalancy' arguments (ie: when *our* side kills one of them, it is somehow more *okay* than when they kill one of ours. The bottom line is one of *OURS* is going to be dead).

Of course, now we start using terms like collateral damage, unfortunate civilian casualties, etc, etc, etc. Lame arguments. Lots of dead people.

And dude, let me point out - I never once even mentioned who I sided with, so relax on attempting to tell me that I think the " death of Israeli civilians really isn't that important" or accusing me of "defending the murder of civilians". That's a swipe at me that is more than a little uncalled for. I abhor the uneccessary death of *ANYONE*.

I hope *that's* simple enough for you.

dead Palestinian militants with Israeli civilians. He leaves out the killed Palestinian CIVILIANS, for a good reason. And they come in great numbers, so much about IDF being the most moral army on the planet..

The attack at the bus stop in Tel Aviv came too soon after the IDF attack on militants to be a response to it. The PFLP said it was in retaliation for one of their men killed last week.

violence...

that cycle is unbalanced because one and only one side intentionally tries to murder civilians.

A fact, you apparently care nothing about.

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Nice to see it.

I am just amazed at all the words and views you put in my mouth. And as for Israel never targetting civilians, those several hundered murdered Palestinian civilians would have something to say about it if they weren't dead...

Care to back up that number? Even the PLO doesn't come up with whoppers that silly.

Not in my post :shrug:

For all it bragadahio about the best security in the world, Israel has not been able to stop killing within Israel no matter how brutal the Israelis have become. Proving once again that Israeli policy is wrong, immoral, and ineffective.

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Or just go on a rant based on what you think/hope/assume/would prefer they mean.

You're misrepresenting a lot of people in this thread - I don't see *anyone* defending *any* war (other than your kind self).