Israeli politician Shelly Tal Meron has claimed Israel does not target civilians and that accusations it is committing genocide at the Liberal Democrat party conference make her feel “uncomfortable”.
The third largest party in the British parliament has become increasingly strident in its approach to the genocide in Gaza.
Just days ago party leader Ed Davey accused Israel of committing genocide for the first time. He boycotted the royal banquet for Wednesday night in honour of visiting US President Donald Trump, in protest over his support for Israel’s military operations in Gaza.
Israel often says things like “we don’t target civilians” but I don’t see how that’s an excuse. They shouldn’t be dropping bombs when the risk of civilian deaths is so high.
Let’s say you’re driving while drunk and you accidentally kill a pedestrian. You can say “well I didn’t intend to kill anybody” but that’s not an excuse.
If they don’t target civilians, does that mean all the tens of thousands were an accident, each time? Probably shouldn’t have a butter knife never mind a host of murderous weapons if they’re that poor.
They clearly do target civilians, time and again, pretty much every day.
Or they just don’t care about civilian casualties. Maybe they bomb a building which they think is used by Hamas, and they don’t care if that bomb kills civilians as well.
They simply draw imaginary lines in the sand, fail to tell Palestinians about the lines, then declare any crossing the lines to be hostile combatants and not citizens.
Whenever Israelis say something assume the opposite is true.
I don’t have a problem with Israelis in general - it seems that some Israelis are completely opposed to the military action in Gaza. I do blame the current Israeli government for killing so many civilians though.