Reply #59: i dont have a single answer....

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i am however watching what the IDF does, what they try, why they are trying and what the results are....i am not going to criticize them for every move they make, since i see they are attempting to minimize civilian casualties while disrupting the missles.

sonic booms
artillary in open fields
artillary in access roads
warning the civilian population

none are perfect, yet all attempt to minimize casulties where the shooters hide behind civilians and use them as shields.

there are limits when the jihadnikim play civilians to what a force can do and i recognize that..i dont belive you do.

sooner or later, when the missles get more accuarate, hit school or hospital...it will be too much and the result will be "punishment raids"...which will mean leveling parts of cities..(we call it death points...enough israelis killed and we can use bigger bombs)

and no doubt you will say "thats a war crime"....yet you will offer silence as the alternative......since its my life at stake, i do not believe my govt has to stand around and do nothing while the palestenians keep trying to kill me......( i dont know if thats labled a "war crime" but its really irrelvant to me)
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as far as the question i keep on asking....i've gotten two partial responses: one from you which was an "i dont know'..and one much earlier from bemildred which also was a "I dont know"....neither does much to keeping me alive.

i'm missing a couple......but once were clarified on the difficulty of responding to missles...and understand that "I dont know, but critizes every move israel makes is the equivilant of "do nothing and let yourself be killed" (that would be the result of accepting the criticism), we can then move on the difficulty of protecting a civilian population when the killers are dressed up as civilians...after that, may come the realization that the onus is on the missle shooters who use the civilian palestenains as hostages and it is they that are actually doing the war crimes, not israel (in this area)

at that point i would expect to see multiple posts protesting the palestenians shooting missles in to israel and calls for them to stop....as opposed to protesting israelis attempts to stop the missles from killing israelis.