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Originally Posted by Hippikos
Since we are talking numbers, less than 50 Israelian civillians died, over a 1000 Lebanese civillians died. Does that mean Israel did a better job with a more effective radius?
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No, it means that Israel keeps its civilians away from combat as much as possble, whereas Hezbollah considers siting their weapons and personel among Lebanese civilians and adjacent to UN position to be a political propiganda advantage. So people like you will blame the Israelis for the result.
There's only two reasons you haven't seen huge Hezbollah antipersonel weapons detonating in downtown Tel Aviv: they don't have them and can't deliver them there. They
brag about the larger Russian and Chineese-designed missles thev've managed to drop randomly on civilians in Haifa...much of the remainder of which missles have now been destroyed on the ground by the same Israeli airstrikes you condem. (Replacements are on the way, of course.)
They're clearly not constrained by any moral or legal considerations; it's all a matter of capabilities; we know what their intentions are. So one can hardly wait for the Iranians to have nukes.
You can bandy scary words about how much area a cluster bomb can cover, but in fact that can be controlled. How much area
actually was covered by each of the weapons you're complaining about?
You don't know. You don't know how many were dropped, or what kind, or where (except in the vaguest terms). You certainly don't know
why.--what military target they were being amed at when they were released; you can be certain that any evidence of that will be removed before the press and UN are brought in. All you do know is it makes a just dandy excuse to pillory the Israelis.
I don't need to whitewash the Israelis...all the credible evidence I've seen so far suggests they have been doing no more than defending themselves from attack.