Instead, they should publicly denounce the intentional targeting of innocent civilians as morally indefensible.
What I meant to write – and should have written – was about the intentional targeting of American citizens.
The classical Islamic law never explicitly says that women and children may be intentional targets if it is the only way to win the jihad.
Even if we were to discount the intentional targeting of civilians, this would not affect the fundamental conclusions of the report.
The intentional targeting of civilians, which was the central element of your op-ed, is only one among 13 headings dealing with violations of international law perpetrated by Israel during Operation Cast Lead.
While Section 702 forbids the intentional targeting of Americans or people inside the United States – a practice known as "reverse targeting" – significant amounts of Americans' phone calls and emails are swept up in the process of collection.
The proportion of accidental deaths to intentional targeting by insurgents has fallen recently, according to the latest data, as a result of both tightened rules of engagement on the coalition side and an increase in Taliban attacks.
At its location not far from Palmyra, an Isis video claimed to show the exhumation of the remains of Saint Elian, who died in the 3rd century AD. "The intentional targeting and systematic destruction of the cultural heritage of Syria is reaching unprecedented levels," said Unesco's Bokova.
And a 2009 study of civilian deaths in Iraq shows that while civilian males remain by far the likeliest to be the victims of intentional targeting, accidental deaths by precision-munitions or cross-fire are much likelier to be women and children.
Intentional targeting of humanitarian and health workers has occurred in all the countries affected by the food crisis.
