"Hezbollah, like all effective terrorist organisations, embeds itself in the community, their fighters seeking to be, in Mao’s words, fish swimming in the sea of the people.
Civilian casualties are a terrorist objective. When Hezbollah fires missiles from a Lebanese village or locates its headquarters in a crowded suburb it does so in the expectation that retaliation will likely result in civilian casualties and pictures of wounded women and children on the evening news. Their calculation is that these civilian casualties will inflame global opinion against Israel and reinforce the local population’s hatred for Israel and support for Hezbollah."
Civilian casualties are a terrorist objective. When Hezbollah fires missiles from a Lebanese village or locates its headquarters in a crowded suburb it does so in the expectation that retaliation will likely result in civilian casualties and pictures of wounded women and children on the evening news. Their calculation is that these civilian casualties will inflame global opinion against Israel and reinforce the local population’s hatred for Israel and support for Hezbollah."
Malcolm Turnbull has a well written arguement on the subject of the recent Lebanese conflict - see the full post at the url below...
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