You can drop a bomb in the middle of a crowd of people and still claim to not have been targeting the people, they were just there. Doesn’t really change the evilness of the action one way or the other.
“They put on a blindfold and fired into a crowd with a machine gun. Clearly, as they weren’t specifically targeting the civilians in the crowd, it’s all okay!” - State Department desperately trying to come up with excuses for American policy towards Israel
You can drop a bomb in the middle of a crowd of people and still claim to not have been targeting the people, they were just there. Doesn’t really change the evilness of the action one way or the other.
“They put on a blindfold and fired into a crowd with a machine gun. Clearly, as they weren’t specifically targeting the civilians in the crowd, it’s all okay!” - State Department desperately trying to come up with excuses for American policy towards Israel