A new Amnesty International report is drawing uncomfortable attention to the massive civilian death toll in Israel’s summer war on the Gaza Strip, saying the Israeli military showed “callous indifference” to civilian casualties in the conflict.
The Amnesty report centered on eight specific cases of Israeli attacks on civilian homes, strikes which killed 104 civilians, including 62 children. They concluded Israel was “brazenly” flouting international law with the attacks.
Israeli officials blasted the report, with the military claiming the strikes were “under review” and that there was no evidence of any wrongdoing in any of the strikes. The foreign ministry complained the attacks on Gaza homes didn’t focus more on war crimes committed by Hamas against Israel, accusing Amnesty of serving “as a propaganda tool for Hamas.”
During the course of the 50-day war, 73 Israelis were killed, though only 6 were civilians. Nearly 2,200 Palestinians, overwhelmingly civilians, were also slain, including over 500 children.
If I were as evil as they are, I'd probably still be wary of wearing out the you're-just-pushing-my-prey's-propaganda schtick. In fact, if I were evil, I'd much rather my prey wore that one out themselves. Maybe a problem with that as an interpretive aid, here, is that their prey is basically right that those outside Palestine are saturated with Israeli propaganda. Palestine probably shouldn't worry about wearing it out.
I don't think "indifference" is the term to capture what happened there.
…more like glee – or guarded satisfaction…
There was no "indifference" at all. It was blatantly purposeful. Let's not mince words. Israel is a purely, evil entity and the US is right by its side.
Priceless knowledge — Cherish the thought of it
This has to be the greatest crime against humanity ever committed, not because of the sheer brutality of it, but because of the worldwide total and criminal indifference to it. A full year in prison at hard labor to every man and woman not horrified by the stench of it — that’s what I always say.
So, as everything in life has a purpose, what if this the ultimate conclusion of Zionist Israel had to happen, as it is the only way possible for the public to be convicted of how criminal is the Zionist way of doing things?
Further, what if the only purpose for this criminal world is to reach the ultimate conclusion of a criminal mentality, all so that things may then turn toward the good?
That is what an eternal optimist would always say.
Hamas tried mightily to kill non-combatants with their missiles directed randomly a Israeli cities. Drat, they were foiled by the Israeli's high tech Iron Dome. Hamas is a murderous thuggery that is too stupid to understand what hit them. They also made a policy of using human shields around their missile sites and armories. They were warned but forced their innocent civilians to stay in place when the bombs hit. Now you blame the Israelis. Pure antisemitism.
Israel also used "human shields," at least early on, and they bragged about it — placing kibbutzes near their borders and demanding that women and children not be sent away "because the kibbutzim will fight harder if they know it's all or nothing."
Does that make the Israelis evil?
I don't think you can cry Moral Equivalence, here.
" the strikes were “under review”"
Unfortunately all the people they wanted to interview were found to have deceased.
It is more than "callous indifference, it is deliberate policy. See: Wiki: Dahiya Doctrine:
The Dahiya doctrine is a military strategy put forth by the Israeli general Gadi Eizenkot that pertains to asymmetric warfare in an urban setting, in which the army deliberately targets civilians and civilian infrastructure, as a means of inducing suffering for the civilian population, thereby establishing deterrence. The doctrine is named after a southern suburb in Beirut with large apartment buildings which were flattened by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) during the 2006 Lebanon War.[1][2] Israel has been accused of implementing the strategy in Gaza during the 2008-09 and 2014 conflicts.[3]