So …still no response to the points I made re ‘civilian casualties.’ If you are alleging that I don’t have a high regard for your approach to debate, Heath .. then in this case you’re bang on the money. Once IA jumps in with his name calling masquerading as pearls of wisdom then it’s probably game over.
I’ll try one last shot. 64 referred to 30000 civilians casualties. I pointed out 3 things. 1. These figures are produced by the group that intentionally murdered over 1200 men, women and children and declared their intention to kill more. 2. Hamas had the best part of 20 battalions of trained fighters in Gaza before the fighting. Can anyone seriously suggest that a large constituent of the deaths are not Hamas fighters? 3. Before a highly critical watching world how would it make any sense for Israeli forces to target civilians?
All you need to say is something like ..’Yep. Points taken, JI. Probably the 30000 is a misrepresentation or exaggeration. I get that. But ..(And then make your zero sum case for the Israelis being the villains and the Middle East ..maybe the world .. being a better place without them.)
What do I now expect? Probably accusations of ‘superiority’ or ‘self absorption’. It would be great to be proved wrong.
