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7/14/2025, 6:27:34 PM
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>we examine the precision strike warfare by Saudi Arabia and the UAE in Yemen and Syria, the latter as part of a Western-led coalition. Our findings indicate that civilian casualties and infrastructure destruction from Saudi and UAE strikes are not mere “collateral damage,” but result from deliberate targeting in a strategy of attrition, including the weaponization of food and water. Yemen illustrates this most clearly.
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>Israeli warfare in Gaza, with its high civilian death toll, is a case in point for those arguing that democracies at war kill many civilians too ... we fully concede this point ... However, the practice and strategy behind their precision strikes differ. Our analysis suggests that many Saudi-UAE strikes in Yemen deliberately targeted civilians or civilian infrastructure, whereas the high death toll of Israel's airstrikes in Gaza is chiefly the result of targeting practices that aim at Hamas fighters, leadership, and structures, but do not show much consideration for sparing civilians. Combined with Gaza’s extremely high population density and Hamas' deliberately commingling of hideouts, weapons caches, and fighting positions with civilian structures, this lack of proportionality results in the staggering death toll.
I think that's B.S. because Israel also targets civilian infrastructure in Yemen. I don't know if this "democracy vs. autocracy" framing is that helpful. Maybe there is something to it, but I think it's more just an eye-for-an-eye and hear-the-lamentations-of-their-women mentality, and Israel being like "you want to fight a Middle Eastern war with us, okay then let's ball" without regard for a "Western" morality. The Houthis strike as civilian infrastructure, they did to the Saudis. You come at me, I'll come back at you 10x -- that's the attitude. What matters is power and respect, and respect does not come without power.
https://youtu.be/CDtAmyOmOhw
>we examine the precision strike warfare by Saudi Arabia and the UAE in Yemen and Syria, the latter as part of a Western-led coalition. Our findings indicate that civilian casualties and infrastructure destruction from Saudi and UAE strikes are not mere “collateral damage,” but result from deliberate targeting in a strategy of attrition, including the weaponization of food and water. Yemen illustrates this most clearly.
>[...]
>Israeli warfare in Gaza, with its high civilian death toll, is a case in point for those arguing that democracies at war kill many civilians too ... we fully concede this point ... However, the practice and strategy behind their precision strikes differ. Our analysis suggests that many Saudi-UAE strikes in Yemen deliberately targeted civilians or civilian infrastructure, whereas the high death toll of Israel's airstrikes in Gaza is chiefly the result of targeting practices that aim at Hamas fighters, leadership, and structures, but do not show much consideration for sparing civilians. Combined with Gaza’s extremely high population density and Hamas' deliberately commingling of hideouts, weapons caches, and fighting positions with civilian structures, this lack of proportionality results in the staggering death toll.
I think that's B.S. because Israel also targets civilian infrastructure in Yemen. I don't know if this "democracy vs. autocracy" framing is that helpful. Maybe there is something to it, but I think it's more just an eye-for-an-eye and hear-the-lamentations-of-their-women mentality, and Israel being like "you want to fight a Middle Eastern war with us, okay then let's ball" without regard for a "Western" morality. The Houthis strike as civilian infrastructure, they did to the Saudis. You come at me, I'll come back at you 10x -- that's the attitude. What matters is power and respect, and respect does not come without power.
https://youtu.be/CDtAmyOmOhw
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