Disproportional response

[Leonid]

The proportionality of response today is usually measured by the comparison of the collateral damage on both sides , that is-some kind of Hollywood action movie type body count. This postmodernist approach completely ignores such a questions who is an aggressor and who is its victim, is the war just or not, what is a goal of such a war and what causes collateral damage. In principle when the war is unjust, than even one single casualty is disproportional. In the just war any response is proportional if it helps to achieve the war's objective, that-is a victory over aggressor. By the very nature of just self-defense war such a victory cannot be achieved by deliberate targeting of non-combatants, namely children, women, elderly people. Although due to effects of the modern warfare these casualties cannot be completely avoided, any reasonable effort should be made in order to minimize them. Contrary, the unjust aggressive war's primary target is a non-combatant population. The last war between Israel and Hamas clearly demonstrated these differences. The barrage of Hamas' rockets was primary and exclusively aimed to the civilian population. Israel from the other side attacked only military and strategic targets of Hamas. The result was unprecedented in the whole modern military practice: Israeli Air Force attacked and destroyed 1500 targets and caused only 160 casualties, mainly Hamas senior military personnel. In terms of collaterally damage it was a bloodless war. Hamas' primary goal was to kill and terrorize civilians. They managed to kill only 6 people. Every single heart bleeding liberal idiot in the West was crying bloody murder and accusing Israel in disproportional response. They don't understand that such a small number of civilian casualties on the both sides is a result of Israeli effort to avoid them-namely strict measures to protect Israeli civilians by means of stunning Israeli anti-rocket system "Iron Dome" which intercepted 80% of Hamas rockets and by using of protective shelters. On the Palestinian side Hamas made all possible effort to increase collateral damage by using its own people as living shields. Israel warned Palestinian civilians on incoming attacks by using SMS and even was broadcasting warnings on the frequencies of Palestinian radio station. To any unbiased observer it should be clear by now which side used disproportional response.