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Hezbollah Murders 56 Lebanese, Including 34 Children
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Hezbollah Murders 56 Lebanese, Including 34 Children

He who necessitates the use of retaliatory force is morally responsible for the consequences of that force. So says the law of causality.

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Craig Biddle
Jul 31, 2006
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When the U.S. dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, killing over 200,000 people, those people were murdered by imperial Japan. Likewise, when Israel bombs a Hezbollah-infested village in Lebanon, killing 56 people, those people are murdered by Hezbollah. In circumstances such as these, there is a difference between the killer and the murderer.…

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