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It is inarguable that Israel has a right to defend itself against attacks on its citizens, but it is inhumane and counterproductive to punish civilian populations in the illogical hope that somehow they will blame Hamas and Hezbollah for provoking the devastating response.

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The news about civilian casualties is also less bad than it used to be.

And they also do not properly account for civilian suffering more generally.

Thus, even though every civilian killed, maimed, raped, or tortured is one too many, the fact that the number of civilian casualties is clearly lower today than it was a decade ago, is good news.

We should have limited ourselves very, very strictly to the protection of the civilian population in Benghazi.

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