Do you think the suicide bomber warned the passengers to evacuate the bus before he detonated the bomb?
[quote]On the morning of February 25, 1996, a suicide bomber blew himself up on a No.18 bus traveling down Jaffa Road near the Jerusalem Central Bus Station in Israel. 17 civilians and 9 Israeli soldiers were killed and 48, mostly civilians, injured.
@flipper1966 I don't think you understand my point - my point is: states who signed the Geneva convention are required to, by international law. If they didn't, they would be terrorists. Therefore, your question is rhetorical. As to the article you posted - perhaps it is worthwhile to study the effectiveness of warning civilians - but I will say again - countries do this because of international law, not necessarily out of the "goodness of their hearts." In this particular case, they warn by text message or leaflet. Considering every other day I see a headline about power or communications being out in Gaza, hear reports of IDF having orders to treat people walking the street as potential combatants, and IDF dropping bombs in places where people were supposed to evacuate to, I doubt the warnings are that effective. Israel might "care" about civilian deaths, but clearly they don't care enough to examine the effectiveness of their warnings and change their tactics. Their mission is too urgent.
That's fine, I understand. Civilians die in war. What I don't like is them going on propaganda binges claiming to be the "most moral army in the world" when that clearly is not true, nor something you can objectively evaluate. The other thing that bothers me is whenever someone brings up the high number of Palestinian casualties, their rebuttal is always to point out what Hamas did to them rather than show any kind of concern that civilians are being killed. In other words a justification. If we keep justifying our killing based upon others killing us, the violence never stops.
