#civilians

Asymmetrical warfare is a euphemism for terrorism, just like collateral damage is a euphemism for killing innocent civilians. ↗

— Alan Dershowitz

#collateral #damage #euphemism #innocent #innocent civilians

It's never acceptable to target civilians. It violates the Geneva Accords, it violates the international law of war and it violates all principles of morality. ↗

— Alan Dershowitz

#accords #civilians #geneva #international #international law

Unprovoked attacks on Israel's borders, murdering Israeli soldiers, taking Israeli hostages and showering rockets targeting and killing Israeli civilians are not furthering any legitimate goal. ↗

— Alcee Hastings

#attacks #borders #civilians #furthering #goal

There is no moral equivalency between those who would kill using children, innocent civilians, children and adults, in their homes and in their places of worship, to that of a government that is seeking those terrorists before they can engage in that awful activity. ↗

— George Pataki

#awful #before #between #children #civilians

My aunt and uncle are clearly civilians. ↗

— Jimmy Kimmel

#civilians #clearly #uncle

The destruction of civilian hamlets, the killing and the wounding of civilians, became vastly greater than it had been before, and it was very upsetting; but I still couldn't bring myself to understand that the policy itself was wrong. ↗

— Neil Sheehan

#been #before #bring #civilian #civilians

Obviously this is the world descending into worse and worse standards of targeting civilians both in state violence in Iraq, Gaza and so on and the terrorist retaliation. ↗

— Clare Short

#civilians #descending #gaza #into #iraq

The monstrous effects on Korean civilians of the methods of warfare adopted by the United Nations — the blanket fire bombing of North Korean cities, the destruction of dams and the resulting devastation of the food supply and an unremitting aerial bombardment more intensive than anything experienced during the Second World War. At one point the Americans gave up bombing targets in the North when their intelligence reported that there were no more buildings over one story high left standing in the entire country … the overall death toll was staggering: possibly as many as four million people. About three million were civilians (one out of every ten Koreans). Even to a world that had just begun to recover from the vast devastation of the Second World War, Korea was a man-made hell with a place among the most violent excesses of the 20th century. ↗

— Reg Whitaker

#korean-war #north-korea #death

I think attacks on civilians in fact boost morale. ↗

— Tom Paulin

#boost #civilians #fact #i #i think

Common sense should tell us that there is no reason for civilians to have access to easily concealable handguns with the capability to shoot through body armor. ↗

— Carl Levin

#armor #body #capability #civilians #common