Reply #10: Maybe they're just defending themselves?

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After all, the Israelis were throwing all kinds of ordinance into civilian-populated areas in their madness to recover their captured soldiers. Collective reprisals being against the rules of civilized warfare and the Geneva Conventions, is there a case to be made that the folks in Gaza and Lebanon were simply defending their civilian populations that were being shelled by a foreign power?

Violence and terror are no way to resolve differences, yet despite their proven record of failure, they're the first choice of so many devotees to the Myth of Redemptive Violence.