Civilians In War
By David Kirtley
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20/10/23
Of course civilians should be allowed to have the necessities, and the wounded and injured. Those are supposed to be the modern rules of war. The lack of this means war crimes are being committed. In reality war does affect civilians ,as it did even in the middle ages. All sides should try to be humane towards civilians. In WWII and plenty of other conflicts civilians have inevitably been caught up in bombing and shortages. In WWII Hitler directed his airforce to begin to target the civilians of London, and in occupied countries people were very much affected by the occupiers, to the extent of purposeful mass murder inflicted particularly on the Jews, but also on other categories of people such as the disabled and gypsies, and of course political prisoners. War dehumanises us all. By the end of the War Britain and America were blanket bombing German cities, and creating firestorms, and of course the nuclear bombs on Japan.
In Palestine/Israel it is a great shame that war has broken out again. Hamas tactics were not nice, and will have lost them a great deal of sympathy, but neither is the destruction of so many buildings by Israeli missiles, with people inside and underneath them. I heard by today there are estimated to be 4,000 Palestinian casualties, large numbers being 'civilian'. All of this should, and probably could have been avoided if the Israel governments had respected the UN principles of Partition, the best solution for a workable peace which could have been had, after many years of de facto population stability. Unfortunately they didn't respect that in recent years, so no one has a workable peace solution to work towards, and we are left with bitterness, desperation, injustices, and now war and massive civilian casualties and destruction. Doubtless some Palestinian and Arab groups such as Hamas and Hezbollah would not have accepted the Partition, but if it had been preserved I am sure most Palestinians would have accepted it as a workable peace which would have allowed them to move forward, away from negativity and war.
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Some interesting historical
Some interesting historical comparisons and interesting that these may be your own thoughts rather than rogue reporter - Alfred Muggins. Civilians are inevitably the innocent victims of war. We continue to hope for common sense to prevail.
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I am not understanding at all
I am not understanding at all why this is being allowed
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