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As for booby traps, Tony why do you still think that having an organised army and killing people, is so much "cleaner" than killing them in an underhand manner becuase you are not allowed or capable of having a real army?
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You can't just ignore the "if you are not allowed or capable of having a real army" part. Those were the terms that ended the last war and if those terms are meaningless, the next war will be worse.
Suicide bombing isn't an act of desperation. We explain it that way because that is the only explanation that fits for our culture, and some Palestinian spokesmen explain it that way because they feel it benefits their cause. But Arab & Persian culture is far different from ours. Suicide bombers believe they are killing evil people, benefitting their cause, and that they will gain salvation and eternal bliss through their act.
I'm very glad that the official complaint of "they murdered 500 of our people" has now come down to "they vandalized and stole stuff". I'm sure the soldiers are guilty as charged. Human Rights Watch is carefullly documenting rights violations and they certainly have found some. At the same time, is filling sewer lines with nails, diesel fuel, nitrogen fertilizer and sugar considered vandalism, or is that theft?