Colpy's wrote this word for word:
1000 dead civilians after 21 days of warfare in the most densely packed population centre on earth shows amazing restraint and care taken by Israelis.
What I wrote:
If I recall you are on the record as saying that only killing 1000 innocent civilians every 3 weeks shows amazing restraint and care.
Suffice to say that after three weeks of death and destruction, Colpy thought that only killing a thousand innocent civilians showed amazing restraint and care.
Therefore it would be reasonable to assume that Colpy would describe the Syrian government as having acted with an even greater level of restraint and care for only killing 17,000 innocent civilians after 70 weeks.
BTW, the 17,000 number is likely far greater than the actual number of dead innocent civilians in the Syrian uprising. More likely the anti-Syrian activists are counting everyone (militants, soldiers, innocent civilians...) who has died so far in the Syrian uprising and inflated the numbers to some degree. Likely the actual number of innocent civilians killed during this uprising far less than 17,000.
For the record I do not support violence, oppression or injustice. I only support non-violent resistance to oppression and injustice.
Goober, CDNBear and Colpy support the current oppressive and unjust regime in Israel. The same one that the MP in the Opening Post describe as acting like Nazis. The same one which uses violence to crush armed militants and a significant number of innocent civilians. So we know what you guys support.
Colpy described the rate of innocent civilians deaths per week by an oppressive unjust regime which demonstrates an amazing level of restraint and care. Since the oppressive and unjust Syrian regime has demonstrated a significantly lower weekly innocent civilian kill rate than the oppressive and unjust Israeli regime, then I would expect him to be consistent and also describe the Syrian regime as having acted with an amazing level of restraint and care.
First of all, 1000 dead civilians in Gaza, plus 400 dead militants WAS great restraint by the Israelis.....if you do the research, you'll find the usual ratio of civilians to combatant deaths in modern war is 10:1. Moreover, turns out it was more like 650 dead militants and 650 dead civilians, a 1:1 ratio.....in the most densely packed population on earth. That requires incredible care and caution by the Israelis, as the militants were hiding among the civilian population. Accusations of "war crimes" in the light of that are irresponsible at best.......the Israelis must ask themselves "Why bother being Mr Nice Guy if we are to be labeled War Criminals no matter WHAT we do???"
Secondly, I don't think I said 17,000 civilians had died in Syria, I said 17,000 ARABS had died in Syria. Yes, many of them would be combatants from both sides....but many many more are civilians. The Sunni rebels use suicide bombers and terror, and Assad's scum military fires on civilian areas with artillery and tanks and habitually attacks funerals as a terror tactic. Indeed, according to an radio interview I heard this week, gov't troops attacked a funeral procession with helicopters, killing over 100 and wounding God knows how many.
Now THAT is a war crime.