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Israeli politicians and military officials are quite open about their desire to remove as many people from Gaza and the West Bank as possible. Better targeting is about more efficiently eliminating the resistance to these efforts.

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Which is not the same as avoiding collateral damage.

Well, my point is more that the damage cannot be considered "collateral," but yes, it will yield more of it, not less.

Precision targeting should or could yield less but what’s happened is more like what you do to a windows 98 machine every year or two

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