Re: Helicopter attacks

Tom Brosz — 5/29/2002 5:45:57 PM (archived)

I have found many references to Israeli helicopter attacks on various military facilities and buildings known to house targeted terrorist leaders. I have also found references to noncombatant Palestinian bystanders being killed in this process, including children. This is nothing to be happy about.

I have found no references to any deliberate Israeli helicopter attacks on civilian housing KNOWN by the attackers at the time to contain only civilians and absolutely no military or terrorist targets. I have found no references to deliberate helicopter attacks on stores, shops, ice cream parlors, churches, ballrooms, or pool halls.

My research was broad, but not all-inclusive. I would appreciate being clued in if you know different.

Intent means something.

If a cop shoots at a bad guy and misses him, hitting a kid, it is tragic. And it is a totally different moral situation than if that cop hid behind a tree, waited for a kid to go by, and drilled him through the head.

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Killing Kids - Buck Galaxy - 5/29/2002 8:21:52 AM
- Hear, Hear !! (nt) (n/t) - FrankC - 5/29/2002 4:53:16 PM
- Agreed Buck: my sympathies for the families (n/t) (n/t) - philw - 5/29/2002 2:42:55 PM
- I have posited before - ebnelson - 5/29/2002 12:34:18 PM
  - Dresden, Hamburg, Hiroshima, Nagasaki - E.P. Grondine - 5/29/2002 2:49:34 PM
    - Tokyo, Kobe - Bowser - 5/29/2002 3:29:08 PM
      - Re: You were right the first time . . . - D. Spires - 5/29/2002 4:05:50 PM
        
        You seem pretty certain. - Bowser - 5/29/2002 11:36:01 AM
        
        Re: The Hamas doesn't kill 'themselves' . . . - D. Spires - 5/29/2002 11:46:37 AM
        
        I'm trying to "keep up". - Bowser - 5/29/2002 12:39:36 PM
        
        Re: Not trying very hard - Tom Brosz - 5/29/2002 1:36:58 PM
        
        "Blowing up babies" - Bowser - 5/29/2002 3:35:08 PM
        
        The Israelis aren't AIMING at the babies. This does mean something, believe it or not. (n/t) (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 5/29/2002 3:45:45 PM
        
        Well. - Bowser - 5/29/2002 4:40:22 PM
        
        Re: That would be an 'Israeli' rocket, wouldn't it . . . ? - D. Spires - 5/30/2002 12:41:06 PM
        
        Re: Helicopter attacks - Tom Brosz - 5/29/2002 5:45:57 PM
        
        Helicopter attacks - Bowser - 5/30/2002 6:15:24 PM
        
        Re: Helicopter attacks - Tom Brosz - 5/30/2002 2:09:05 PM
        
        Re: Yes to all the above . . . - D. Spires - 5/30/2002 9:40:32 AM
        
        Intent - E.P.Grondine - 5/30/2002 3:23:49 PM
        
        Re: Intent - Buck Galaxy - 5/30/2002 3:43:21 PM
        
        That is the main point, imho. §§ (n/t) - ebnelson - 5/30/2002 1:25:19 PM
        
        Re: Elementary . . . - D. Spires - 5/29/2002 1:09:56 PM
    - My point is this: - ebnelson - 5/29/2002 3:12:12 PM
    - Re: Palestine has not been 'forced' to that level . . . - D. Spires - 5/29/2002 2:55:52 PM
      - Neither Arafat nor Sharon has control over the more extreme elements - E.P. Grondine - 5/29/2002 4:42:30 PM
        
        Re: Then they need to be replaced with competent leaders . . . - D. Spires - 5/29/2002 6:14:11 PM
        
        They were both chosen - E.P. Grondine - 5/30/2002 3:29:56 PM

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