It's a murder if you believe any loss of life is a murder and that's your personal definition which is not shared by the rest of the world (including the webster dictionary). It's a crime if there was a criminal intent, negligence or criminal incompetence. Personally I don't believe in intent, negligence and/or incompetence may indeed turn out to be the case but at this moment your opinion is as good as mine.
Crime doesn't require criminal intent.
It is breaking of a law. People are charged with crimes for making mistakes, i.e. drunk driving. I doubt many drunks intend to have accidents. Some may not have intended to even drive home, but in their drunken condition, they convinced themselves that they could indeed drive.
Neither will palestinians subject themselves to an independent body. BTW, the US, India, Pakistan, all arab countries, russia and quite a lot of other countries are not willing to subject themselves to an "independent body" either. But you know what, find a truly independent body willing to consider the entire history of the conflict, not just one misguided military strike, find an independent body like that and Israel might just be willing to subject themselves to it. You are not saying that the UN representing 1 billion muslims from 100 oil rich countries is an independent and unbiased body, are you?
It is easy enough to find 12 people who have no stake in what happens to either Israel or the Palestinians.
I have no stake, I think both parties are wrong to continually engage in violence and rationalize it.
Just because two sides are fighting does not mean they are both guilty, let alone equally guilty. There is a huge difference betwen the side which always attacks and the side which retaliates (even if this retaliation is occasionally heavy handed), between the side that offers peace while it can easily wipe out the enemy and the side which refuses any peace proposal and will not accept anything short of complete victory and annihilation of the other side.
I know that many Jews are masters of guilt trips, that they often want others to believe that they never do anything wrong, that they are perpetual victims.
Sorry, been there, done that.
Throwing the second punch is wrong.
Two wrongs don't make it right.
See, that's the bottom line. We have two cultures who are not rational, but rather overtly religious, and practice a religions of vengeance. The cycle of violence will never end. Eye for an eye thinking, until they forget why it is that they are really fighting. The children of both the Israelis and the Palestinians are not born hating each other....they are indoctrinated into the world of hate and blame, victimization, and rationalization of continual hatred and bloodshed.
We have a Jewish state, and we have an Islamic state, and both think they have done nothing wrong, and believe they are eternally justified in killing each other.
Hatfields and McCoys, but in this case, they essentially are working off the same script.
