Two conflicts

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• Keith

  22 June 2006 at 10:47 am

  This “positive message to the Muslim world” becomes irrelevant when Israel continues to murder Palestinian civilians in Palestine.

  Exactly right because their hatred is of Jews not Zionists. I would however be careful about equating Israel with murder as I don’t believe any honest person would agree that Israel deliberately kills civilians. Should they try harder to avoid civilian deaths? Ofcourse. At the cost of having armed militants on their way to fire missiles at Israel free to do it? No, I don’t think so. What country in a similar situation would allow that?
• Pete

  22 June 2006 at 4:02 pm

  Thanks Antony

  For spotting yet another good blog.

  The article on Chechnya and Iraq shows how difficult it is to compare them.

  The main wave of killings of Chechen’s by Russians seems to be past. I understand something like 50,000 Chechens have died over the last 15 years at the hands of the Russian military and FSB. Iraq looks worse at the movement because the killing is still in the “main wave” and no side is “winning” (dominating) enough to slow it down. No puppet government has successfully been installed in Iraq (yet).

  How many deaths in either conflict are due to sectarian killings rather than US or Russian action is impossible to determine.

  This is no comfort to Chechen’s or Iraqis but it reflects how difficult it is to account for the pain, suffering and cost of occupations and counterinsurgency operations mixed in with civil wars.

  Pete
  http://spyingbadthings.blogspot.com/