Letter to the Editor: Doron Lubinsky
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Kimball Shinkoskey is outraged that more Gazan than Israeli civilians have died in the current war. All civilian casualties are tragic. However, it was Hamas that started the war, and Hezbollah that started firing a day later. Gazans elected Hamas and celebrated its atrocities. Hamas fires from mosques, schools, and hospitals.
Hamas built hundreds of miles of terror tunnels, but no civilian bomb shelters. In contrast, Israel kept its casualties low through Iron Dome and bomb shelters. Shinkoskey should direct their anger at Hamas and Hezbollah, not Israel.
John Spencer, head of Urban Warfare at West Point, notes that Israel tries harder than any other country to avoid civilian casualties. The civilian to combatant ratio is lower in this war than others, even if Hamas’ casualty claims are correct. There is an intensely hostile microscope on Israel. The recent Saudi-Houthi war claimed over 370,000 lives, that in Syria over 500,000 people, and that in Tigray between 150 and 600,000 people. The casualty count is not a focus there.
In no other conflict, is such a free pass given to the side that started the war, nor so much demonization directed at a small country fighting for survival.
Doron Lubinsky, Atlanta, Ga.
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