Talk:List of massacres commited by Israeli forces

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There are many more hate crimes commited by the Israeli Forces against non-Jews. For example there was one in the 1980's which involved 1000's of palestinians. Please someone expand this article.

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[edit] Massacres?

Although many of these events can undoubtably be described as massacres, some of them use the term in a highly debatable way. I suggest either changing the name of the article or (preferably) deleting the more debatable "massacres" from the list (Beit Hanoun and 2006 Qana are the ones I am most disturbed by). --GHcool 07:23, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

I guess changing the name would be the best solution. It seems that for some people, every single one of these incidents are not massacres and all could be potentially deleted.--Burgas00 16:12, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] This article nominated for deletion

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and redirected the page. Amoruso 01:13, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Mixed

It is fine to have a list of massacres, but then each one of the incidents on the list should actually be massacres by some standard definition. If civilians are killed as "collateral damage" (sickening euphemism, I know), then that does not qualify as a massacre. Similarly, if combatant forces hide in civilian areas and dress as civilians, it is not a massacre, either. For example, there have been several debates on whether Deir Yassin was a massacre or a battle, or both, and what to call the article. It is called the Deir Yassin massacre not because it's undisputably a massacre, but because it was argued that was the most common name. That logic can't be extended to automatically put this on the list of massacres with lower-case "m." --Leifern 18:32, 12 December 2006 (UTC)