Like we’ve been saying all along, damned if you do, and damned if you don’t.
That aside, the same can be said of the EU and other countries giving aid to Hamas, in violation of UNSCR 1373. The gloves need to come off, and those who are criticizing the IDF now, must come to its defense when facing the Hamas and other IslamoNazi terrorists in the future.
H/T: Ilya Meyer.
Int’l Legal Experts Slam IDF – For Over-Warning Gazans
The IDF went to extraordinary lengths last summer to prevent civilian casualties while fighting Hamas terrorists in Gaza, achieving a remarkable 1:1 civilian to combatant ratio, but according to international legal experts it went too far in avoiding casualties among the enemy population.
Willy Stern of Vanderbilt Law School, in an article to be published next Monday in the Weekly Standard, details what he found while spending two weeks with attorneys in the IDF’s international law department dubbed “Dabla” as well as front-line commanders, and documents the IDF’s “legal zeal” which as he notes has not stemmed the deluge of international criticism against it.
Stern listed how the IDF bombarded Gaza residents with thousands of telephone calls, leaflet drops, TV and radio messages, as well as calls to influential citizens urging them to evacuate residents, and in doing so gave the terrorist enemy detailed information about its troop movements.
“It was abundantly clear that IDF commanders had gone beyond any mandates that international law requires to avoid civilian casualties,” writes Stern. He reported how Dabla attorneys have to sign off on a “target card” for each airstrike on terror targets, with the cards enumerating all of the relevant data about the planned strike.
In contrast, the Hamas “doctrine manual” captured by the IDF in the Shejaiya neighborhood early last August documents how the terror group urges its fighters to embed themselves among civilians in hopes that the IDF will kill civilians.
“Hamas’s playbook calls for helping to kill its own civilians, while the IDF’s playbook goes to extreme – some say inappropriate – lengths to protect innocent life in war,” reads the article.
“It was abundantly clear that IDF commanders had gone beyond any mandates that international law requires to avoid civilian casualties,” writes Stern
Jewish lawyers are famous for vigorously representing the interests of their clients – in this case the Palis.
Isreal should get rid of Jewish lawyers, and hand the contract to Pali lawyers instead. This way the IDF gets a break, and the world acknbowledges how humane Israel is.
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