'Palestinians' shooting missiles from apartment buildings
At the Philadelphia Bulletin, David Bedein reports that the 'Palestinians' are shooting missiles at Sderot from atop Gaza apartment buildings in the hope that Israel will have no choice but to retaliate and cause civilian casualties:Missile attacks on Israel from Gaza over the past two weeks have emanated from populated areas in Gaza.
Last Monday, The Sderot Media Center filmed a missile fired from the rooftop of an apartment building in Gaza (which can be seen [below CiJ])....
As a result, the top brass of the Israeli army has given orders to wipe out all missile launch pads. That order will mean that it is a matter of time before there are massive Arab civilian casualties that will occur because the terrorists are shooting the rockets from within civilian areas.
A left-wing Jewish group known as Betselem, which is funded by European governments and by the American, Canadian and British supporters of the NEW ISRAEL FUND, has warned the IDF not to kill civilians, saying that this would be a war crime. This follows quieter Betselem statements that harboring terrorists is also a war crime.
U.S. State Department spokespeople and U.N. spokespeople have also warned Israel against attacking civilians.
However, the Bulletin interviewed the head of the IDF Code of Ethics committee, Prof. Assa Kasher, and asked him if the ethical code of the IDF allows it to neutralize a missile launcher if missiles are fired from the roof of an apartment building, even if civilian casualties will occur as a result of that attack.
Kasher's answer was "yes," if the missiles continue to be launched from these Gaza roof tops.
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 1:55 PM
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Until there is a real military response these attacks are going to continue.
As a result, the top brass of the Israeli army has given orders to wipe out all missile launch pads. That order will mean that it is a matter of time before there are massive Arab civilian casualties that will occur because the terrorists are shooting the rockets from within civilian areas.
And that is a bad thing?
Ron,
Read what I wrote last week about a disproportionate response being required. Obviously, I don't think it's a bad thing. But obviously, the 'quartet' won't be happy about it.
I was sort of pulling your leg on this; I know what you wrote. Perhaps you can explain to me why the Israeli government tolerates even one missile from Gaza coming into Israel? From my vantage point (NYC), it seems that a tit-for-tat response is exactly useless. What if we did that after Pearl Harbor? Instead, for the 2403 killed, we killed millions of Japanese. And, of course, our response, while numerically disproportionate, was entirely correct. It seems to me that the Gaza problem is partly due to Israel's non-response. It seems that Israel is the only government in the world which tolerates attacks.
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