Posted on 01/16/2009 10:00:27 AM PST by Dawnsblood
BO Hussein is coming
Should provide some comfort for those who will be involved in the coming dust-up with iran.
HOT DOG! Hamas, I have but one word for you: DIE DIE DIE!
No cease fire please. Allow Israel to kill as many Islamofascists as possible. There is no good Hamas as a dead Hamas or Iranian thug. Any peace proposals will kill Israel and by proxy, America. Hil and BO will not be able to negotiate with any Islamo but they don’t see that. Wait till the Islamos kill any of our people, military or other, oh then they will be in high dudgeon!
They have less than a week to destroy Hamas. If they fail, the muzzies will eventually slaughter every last Isreali child.
These ladies work as Customs agents.... Points of Entry!!
GOD Bless Them!!!!!!!!!!!
Hehe. That's certainly a difference in gender - as a woman, the first things I noticed were their shoes!
Jeez, the jokes just write themselves.
what got into them? 0bama coming into office means a lack of US support/intelligence. git ‘r done while you can... then hunker down for a bad 4 years
Not real familiar with the dimensions of Gaza/Southern Israel are you?
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Amateurs trained by irregulars meet the pros, with predictable results. I recall a blood-curdling photo of an Iranian training camp in which the trainees were jumping through flaming hula hoops. Fine, I guess, if you’re applying for a job at the circus but in the field that’s probably only going to help you if you have to haul yer sorry butt out of a building your enemy just blew up around you...
Gaza isn’t even 10 miles wide.
International law backs Israeli actions.
Regarding “Israel, Gaza and international law” (Opinion, Jan. 8):
Professor Jonathan Graubart accuses Israel of besieging Gaza, and implies that it is a violation of international humanitarian law. I know a thing or two about international humanitarian law as I belonged to the legal team of the International Committee of the Red Cross, which worked hard at updating the 1949 Geneva Conventions with two new treaties called Additional Protocols. There is nothing in these instruments that outlaws a siege in response to constant attacks by a pathologically aggressive and genocidal neighbor.
Next, Graubart repeats the latest canard that Israel “must show that its actions are proportionate.” How so? By lobbing a rocket at random over Gaza for every rocket fired by Hamas over Israel? Would that make the unilateral critics of Israel happy? The Palestinian casualties would have been horrendous, and Israel refused to stoop that low. It held its fire and endured the constant barrage for eight long years.
Overall, Graubart uses international humanitarian law only to bolster his prejudice and hold Israel accountable for unintended casualties inflicted within the Palestinian population of Gaza, while saying next to nothing to demand the same of Hamas for its fully intentional attacks. International law is not a candy store where you pick and choose what suits you. As in any civil society, the same rules apply to everybody. Hamas is no exception. Consequently, it would have helped to point out that Hamas has in fact committed what the Geneva Conventions refer politely to as “grave breaches,” which means war crimes, on at least three counts: lobbing rockets over civilian areas without any ability nor intention to distinguish between military and civilian targets, hiding its forces behind its own civilian population, and hiding arsenals, command and control centers and troops in patently civilian buildings.
In each case, the absolute immunity that civilian installations and civilian populations are entitled to under international law was automatically waived the second these installations or populations were used for military purposes. Humanitarian law is crystal clear on this point. Israel is therefore entirely in its right to destroy mosques filled to the rim with weaponry or houses hiding Hamas command centers, to name only two categories of otherwise illegal targets turned into lawful military objectives by Hamas' actions. The resulting casualties are Hamas' sole responsibility, and the critics should give blame where blame is due, not accuse Israel for merely defending itself.
JEAN-JACQUES SURBECK
Who is he? Jean-Jacques Surbeck, is a Swiss-American peace activist and lecturer and is a former Official of the International Committee of the Red Cross!
fantastic sense.
if only our enemy were interested in sense
Not particularly, but you get the drift none the less, right?
Picky, picky, picky....(chuckle)
Gaza isn’t even 10 miles wide.
Ten and half wide should do it then.
In view of this new legal opinion, I relent. He can have a last cigarette, too.
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