thegreatdivide wrote on Nov 19
th, 2023 at 4:41pm:
That's right; with everyone - the decent among them at least - uncomprehending why they must watch the slaughter of children, when we have a UN and postulated "international law"; while the indecent like you remain fully committed to the delusional 'individual rights/freedom' ideology which is more important to your sorry self than the life of a child.
Deplorable.
The fourth Geneva Convention (1949) deals with the protection of civilians during armed conflict. Its prohibitions cover both state and non-state actors, but the world has yet to figure out how to enforce them on the latter. This has created a de facto imbalance that is simply not sustainable in the long run. The protection of hospitals is covered in article 19. It states that their entitlement to protection ceases if “they are used to commit … acts harmful to the enemy”. A commentary published in 1958 by the International Committee of the Red Cross, the custodian of the Geneva Convention, clarifies that examples of such harmful acts “include the use of a hospital as a shelter for able-bodied combatants or fugitives, as an arms or ammunition store, as a military observation post, or as a centre for liaison with fighting troops”.
US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan has confirmed that Hamas is using hospitals as command and control centres. This makes them legitimate military targets, and the responsibility for all resulting loss of life rests wholly and solely with Hamas.
The mask of fitting in with host-society norms slipped from the thousands of immigrants who celebrated 10/7. As a show of strength, they have been impressive and effective. The same social-justice crowd that insists words are literal violence wants us to contextualise actual violence as a necessity, rape as resistance, incineration as liberation. Young people whose self-introductions include preferred pronouns have adopted the chants of a genocidal death cult as anti-Semitism moves in from the fringes to occupy the public square.
Support from many political, cultural and intellectual elites puts on public display the moral and spiritual hollowness at the heart of contemporary Western society. There could be no better example of this than the Chicago chapter of Black Lives Matter using a paraglider, a symbol of mass death, as a symbol of liberation from “white privilege” Israeli settler-colonisers.
The solemn pledge of “Never again” has given way to a “Here we go again” shrug at the return, 78 years after the Holocaust, of the threat of Jewish extermination. The chants have called for Jews to be gassed, taunted them that the army of Mohammed that massacred Jews in the seventh century will return, urged the globalisation of the intifada and issued a call to arms for jihad. The terrorists have been valorised, Israel vilified, Jews attacked and threatened, posters of the missing hostages torn down.
The brutal reality is that if a ceasefire was declared, Israel could not resume the war on Hamas absent a major fresh terrorist attack. Hamas wants the extermination of Israel, not reconciliation with it. Its explicit, charter goal is to liquidate Israel and ethnically cleanse Jews “from the river to the sea”. Its strategy is to delegitimise the Jewish state. Its tactics are to target Israeli civilians and endanger Palestinian civilians as human shields by placing fighters under hospitals and ammunition in schools.
Hamas and Israel cannot coexist. Hamas must be forcibly removed from power. Its 30,000 fighters are an armed militia, not soldiers in uniform. The objectives of 10/7 were to kill, rape, maim, mutilate, burn, kidnap and subject to public humiliation on the streets of Gaza as many Israelis as possible; undermine Israelis’ confidence in their government’s ability to protect them; provoke a reaction of extreme violence from Israel that would kill huge numbers of Palestinian civilians, the more the better to inflame the Arab street, enrage Muslims worldwide and flood the streets of Western cities with massive crowds shouting pro-Palestinian/Hamas slogans and spewing Jew hatred; secure the international isolation of Israel; dismantle the Abraham Accords; and disrupt the process of normalisation of relations with Arab states.
The international humanitarian law requirement of proportionality does not mean in proportion to the initial attack but in relation to the military objective. If the number of civilians killed in the war is very high, that’s due to Hamas hiding fighters and weaponry deep amid civilian populations. Israel does try to do everything possible – from initial advance warnings to vacate, to choice of targets and weapons – to minimise casualties. But not if that means allowing Hamas to continue to be a threat to Israel.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/inquirer/from-vows-of-never-again-to-a-here-we-...Analyse that, monomaniac.
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