re: The Gaza land invasion (Day 46) ...

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Israel, for all of its "surgical" strikes can't seem to keep the civilian casualty rate under 50% -- even if a group is using civilians as shields, there's no excuse for it to ever be over 70% especially in a small nation like Palestine. Finding, identifying and eliminating targets should be much easier for "the strongest military in the Middle East".

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Yeah I don't agree with that. You're comparing drone strikes in a largely open rural environment (Afghanistan/Pakistan) to very dense urban combat where the enemy force is intentionally using habitation areas to draw fire of Israeli munitions. Gaza is almost universally a very DENSE urban terrain; even if you compare to Iraq, there were few if any drone strikes conducted in urban areas; most were rural or in spares suburban areas.

Its apples to oranges.