Originally posted by Staga
How does it differ if person A blews up a bus with couple IDF soldiers in it (and kills 10 others by doing so) or if person B launches a rocket/missile to the house and kills Hamas fighters and 10 other humans?
I'm not sorry about that death (thought assasination as a politic tool is a bit dubious) but I also wouldn't care much if some palestinian would blow Sharon to the hell (Sabra & Shatila anyone?)
The Israelis, however forcefully, at the very least level their crosshairs on targets that are purely militant.
Palestinians don't bother with crosshairs of any sort. Their primary targets are Israelis civilians, with a preference for soldiers.
Furthermore, when those militant elders surround themselves with 'followers' to gaurantee civilian casualties in the event of an attack, all for the sake of making the IDF look like the SS, it is the militant leadership that commits the ultimate crime.
Show me one example of Israelis aiming their missiles, seeing that there is no military target and then saying 'screw it, we're out here, we're ready to go, let's just go ahead and fire anyway.'