"You may target an enemy illegally operating in a civilian area if you make all reasonable efforts to avoid or minimise civilian casualties."
Can you show us how they cases here "took reasonable efforts" to avoid or minimise casualties while dropping a bomb on a block of flats (also those that were dropped during the incursion)
How do you define "illegally operating" - as the targets discussed were not "operating", but living there?
"As I said, they achieved an extraordinarily and historically low number of civilian casualties,"
Utter crap - where is your evidence to back this up?
"The head of the Shin Bet reported to the Israeli Cabinet that of the 810 Palestinians killed in Gaza in 2006 and 2007, 200 were civilians (a ratio of approximately 1:3). Haaretz assessed this to be an underestimation of civilian casualties. Using B'tselem's figures they calculated that 816 Palestinians had been killed in Gaza during the two-year period, 360 of whom were civilians.[25] 1,010 Israelis were killed between September 29, 2000 and January 1, 2005. Of these, 773 were civilians killed in Palestinian attacks, resulting in a ratio of approximately 5:1.[26]"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilian_casualty_ratio#Israeli.E2.80.93Palestinian_conflict
Are we to take it that you no longer oppose the killing of civilians?
Jim Carroll