Comments on: In Gaza, Both Israel & Hamas Committed War Crimes

By: R

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:54:45 +0000

Tom: so umm…shelling UN schools with white phosphorus doesn’t count as a war crime right? Even when the UN TOLD the Israelis the GPS Coordinates of the school (pretty accurate from what I hear) Talk about spurious tactics. Get off your soap box shill. Is that really the best you have? That Israel committed war crimes because of a “Technicality”? If you believe that, I got a nice bridge in Brooklyn to sell ya, barley used.

John: Israel broke the truce which lead to this massacre; while no rockets were going off, by committing targeted assassinations on Hamas officials, and re-initiated the blockade of the Gaza Strip. Of course all of these facts get overlooked when you aren’t looking for them because the US MSM refuses to report them. Then all of sudden after Israel BREAKS the truce – rockets start going off…hmmm, what a coincidence. Which in turn leads to the slaughter of thousands of innocent Palestinian civilians some burned alive by chemical weapons, and an entire 13 Israelis dead, 3 of which were killed by thier own friendly fire. So that means that the Israeli army actually accidentally killed 23% of the casualties they incurred. Honestly arguing for Israel in this matter, is just a lost cause.

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 10:14:44 +0000

I read the report. Their arguments are essentially based on the idea that Israel still legally occupied Gaza during the conflict, thus giving Gaza civilians protected status. Israel ended the military occupation before the conflict began. Amnesty spends a huge effort trying to define the situation as Israel “occupying” Gaza, in order to classify the conflict as a war crime against protected civilians of an occupied area. It’s a transparent, spurious tactic.

By: blammo

blammo — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 10:09:11 +0000

In palestine, there are no civilians; everybody is a potential threat, a potential assassin. Whether they are visibly armed or not is no help in determining a threat. By the time they get close enough to determine that status, they could be detonating hidden explosives.

This is the choice that a minority of palestinians have made for the entire palestinian people. It is regrettable, but that doesn’t make it any less true.

They are a nation now, but they do not formalize their military and make a distinction between civilian and soldier. Until they do, and all would be assassins are removed from the battlefield, israel will be forced to do what they must to prevent their own casualties.

Nobody would hold any other nation to blame facing the same circumstances.

By: John

John — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 08:17:50 +0000

If Amnesty had their way all the RAF and US airforce pilots in WWII would have been war criminals, in addition to Winston Churchill.

This is suicidal liberalism. Until Muslims take over Europe, the people there will never understand. They’ve forgotten what aggression is, and only 65 years have past since many of them were taken over by Germany as proof of what happens when you go easy on maniacs and allow them to arm and flourish.

The Palestinians elected Hamas who uses them as human shields. Israel cannot have its hands tied in its war on people who blow up buses and shot rockets on civilians.