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"To say that only a figure of zero civilian fatalities is acceptable is to say that no country can ever go to war to defend its civilians against aggressive attack. But of course no-one does say that. The media pay virtually no attention at all to civilian casualties in any other conflict. In Afghanistan, for example, untold numbers of civilians are being killed in air strikes which are truly indiscriminate. Yet no newspapers or NGOs are leaping up and down about those. There is virtually no media interest whatever in the civilian casualties in Afghanistan. It is only Israel whose figures are so incendiary – and so inflated; it is only Israel which is not to be allowed to kill any civilians or children in war; thus it is only Israel which is not to be allowed to defend itself; and thus those who single it out in this way are effectively saying they are content for Israel to be wiped out." "NGO Monitor provides some context to explain that HRW hardly has a track record of objectivity or even rationality…"