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Again, I fail to see how sacrificing one's innocent children is anything but cowardly.
At some point, if your only choice is the destruction of your enemy (to include his family) or your own family, you are going to have to make a choice. However distasteful that choice may be.
If I recall correctly (I wasn't there), the soldiers involved in the Mogadishu battle were faced with a similar choice. Somali fighters were using women and children to shield themselves while they fired upon US soldiers and airmen. The US soldiers could either choose not to shoot and allow their attacker to continue trying to kill them, or kill the unarmed woman or child protecting the shooter in order to neutralize the attacker. Either choice was unpleasant. But, it was a choice forced upon them by their adversary.
HAMAS has put Israel in a similar conundrum. Kill our families to kill us, or we will kill you and your family.
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