And frankly, let's talk about just how DISGUSTING this train of *cough cough* 'legal' thinking actually is.
This type of thinking DEHUMANIZES people. It informs that civilians who are NOT taking part in the hostilites -- including CHILDREN, FFS -- are legitimate targets for execution. It claims that a family sitting down for a meal, in the sanctity of their own home, within the sanctity of time which is Shabbat is a permissible target for slaughter. Or that a group of elderly men, in the act of prayer in a sacred place, is a permissible target for slaughter. It claims that it is morally and legally permissible to kill people because of who or what or where they are.
This is a vile, toxic and abhorrent ideology. It should be rejected by all people. Honestly, though I am loathe to make comparisons to Nazism in respect for the dead and the continued suffering of the families of the dead and the collective memory of all of us who were affected -- THIS -- right here -- is the same ideology that was used by the Nazis. The ideology says that we have a right to kill them -- not because of what they do -- but because of what they are.
Never again. Right? And yet, here it is happening right before our eyes. Again.