GAriss

I suggest that you instead explain to us how the actions of the IDF in the engagements leading up to their destruction of the UN Observation Post demonstrates a deliberate targeting of that position.

Yes they f**ked up, using a fast Jet to engage targets close to a UN position following a prolonged bombardment with artillery which would probably have obscured the intended target with smoke was a bad decision. This question that will have to be answered by the IDF investigation that has been ordered as will also be, was the Laser guided bomb taken off target by the smoke (As happened to the RAF Buccaneer’s weapon during the first Gulf war as I mentioned earlier)? Or did the Pilot misinterpret his instructions and target the building in error (As happened to the F14 that nearly killed BBC John Simpson in the second Gulf War)?

I cannot understand how you can honestly rationalise in your mind that the IDF would occupy a battery155mm self-propelled guns for a whole day with the task of deliberately just missing a big white building on a hill. These guns and their crews are a rare and expensive resource for any army, they pride themselves in being able to direct their fire down to the metre, if the Observation Post had been the target they would have destroyed it with the first few rounds and moved on to the next target.

Instead are you still going to hide behind the posturing of politicians trying to justify to the electorate why they have allowed their armed forces to be sent as unarmed observers into a war zone; so allowing Hezbollah to turn them into nothing more than human shields for their activities.

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