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... collective punishment on the many innocents in Gaza, ever turn to the attack on the Jews in the Warsaw ghetto?
A small, lightly armed, force of Jews stood up to the might of the German army during the siege in the 1940s.
One set of lightly armed men are considered heroes, another sub-human scum.
Sandy - In this situation, the only thoughts the military have.on either side, is how much they hate their counterparts, with a depth of feeling beyond our compression, drilled into them from birth onwards.
I doubt they make a particular distinction between military and civilian casualties, destruction of the enemy is the object, and both sides are vigorously aiming to achieve it first.
A few years ago I walked in Spain with a group which included a retired psychiatrist from Norway. He said he had spent the final years of his career working with Israeli soldiers in a mental hospital.
If he was telling the truth, and I have no reason to doubt him, it seems some soldiers do have serious problems when they have time to reflect on what they've done.
naomi's question
Corby, this mentions the charred body of an infant - but we really shouldn't be trying to score points - or even discussing which atrocity is worse. That really is crass.
What Hamas did was inhuman. I think we can probably all agree on that ... can't we?
TCL's reply
NAOMI, "we really shouldn't be trying to score points" I agree but neither should every claim be accepted at face value.
"The first casualty when war comes is truth"
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