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[Math Junkie]

"You left one post out."

Which one?

"(not to mention the massacre in Dresden)."

I addressed that. I think it was wrong.

"Are you equating Dresden to what the Palestinian suicide bombers are doing?"

No. Although they both violate the same principle, Dresden was a much greater crime because of its massive scale.

"So was my Dad. He fought the Germans as well during WWII as one of those 'terrorists' or freedom fighters. And he did whatever was necessary to kill as many Germans as possible. That included deaths in the civilian population either by accident or in the vicinity of a military target they were after or very rarely collaborators."

Yes, and that is very different from what the Palestinian suicide bombers are doing. They are NOT killing civilians "by accident or in the vicinity of a military target." They are killing civilians ON PURPOSE.

"But I know by talking to my Dad, that if they were able to go to Germany and kill Germans, they would have."

If he had gone to Germany and killed Germans with no active role in the war effort, that would have been wrong - for the same reason that the firebombing of Dresden was wrong, even though it would have been on a much smaller scale.

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