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Israel war: There is a difference between treating civilians as targets and treating them as collateral damage

By Timothy P. Carney
Published October 12, 2023 12:41pm ET
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Israel war: There is a difference between treating civilians as targets and treating them as collateral damage
Smoke rises following an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City, Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2023. Palestinian health officials reported hundreds of deaths from Israeli airstrikes in Gaza. | (Fatima Shbair/AP)

In the war between Hamas and Israel, innocent civilians, including women and children, are dying on both sides of the Israel-Gaza border. But no fair person should draw a moral equivalence between Hamas’s actions and Israel’s.

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