War casualties were not murder victims

FINTAN LANE is at it again, talking about the “mass murder of more than 1,000 Lebanese men, women and children during nearly 3,000 sorties by the Israeli air force” (Irish Examiner letters, August 21)

War casualties were not murder victims

This was war.

If everybody who kills in a war is a murderer, then there are thousands of soldiers, airmen and seamen who fought in World War II who should be so described.

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