Wars often throw up many innocent victims, and when that war is with fanatics, then the number of innocent victims rises.
Colonel - Prisoner Of War
So perhaps, given the mediaeval outlook of many of the protagonists, its
not a surprise that the Islam wars of the last decade or so have
probably produced the greatest proportion of civilian death, injury, and
displacement than any wars since the middle ages.
I have been reading XPD by thriller writer Len Deighton as my train book ....
XPD Thriller By Len Deighton
..... the premise is that in June 1940, Hitler and Churchill met up near the Belgium border to discuss British surrender terms .... the Nazi papers which described the meeting are on the loose, and the British, Soviets, CIA and a German group are all after them for different reasons.
Finally, here's film of the boarding of the "Peace Flotilla" ship which very clearly shows the "Peace Protesters" using violence to attack Israeli soldiers.
Whether the violence of the attacks on them justifies the killings, is probably a matter only the soldiers being attacked can be sure of, but I won't listen to Western "Peace Protesters" saying that it was the Israeli's who started the violence, when clearly it was the Islamist's on the ship who did so.
Violence begets violence and the protestors should have remained 'peaceful' protestors ......
