[drinchev]

I was thinking about this conflict ( I'm neither Israelian nor Palestinian ) and my personal opinion is that if you have more advanced military forces than your opponent you definitely should take responsibility for all casualties ( civilians and military ).

I think terrorism is the worst thing that takes lives on our planet right now, but I'm not sure the way to fight with it is killing so many people.

I'm keen on covert ops, intelligence, special operations, etc. But when you do massive bombarding of a city with thousands of innocent people I think you are going the wrong way.

[jjoonathan]

I tend to agree with you.

"You should be sympathetic to our decision to kill civilians because it's the only way to favorably engage the terrorists!"

seems exactly on-par (morally speaking) with

"You should be sympathetic to our decision to get civilians killed because it's the only way to favorably engage the oppressive occupation!"

It's a prisoner's dilemma through and through. The only way I can see to break the symmetry is to note that one side stands to lose less by appeasing the other.