Stand up proudly. You be you.
Posted on 06/09/2025 8:31:31 AM PDT by RandFan
Even wars have rules. They don't stop soldiers killing each other but they're intended to make sure that civilians caught up in the fighting are treated humanely and protected from as much danger as possible. The rules apply equally to all sides.
If one side has suffered a brutal surprise attack that killed hundreds of civilians, as Israel did on 7 October 2023, it does not get an exemption from the law. The protection of civilians is a legal requirement in a battle plan.
That, at least, is the theory behind the Geneva Conventions. The latest version, the fourth, was formulated and adopted after World War Two to stop such slaughter and cruelty to civilians from ever happening again.
At the headquarters of the International Committee of the Red Cross in Geneva (ICRC) the words "Even Wars Have Rules" are emblazoned in huge letters on a glass rotunda.
The reminder is timely because the rules are being broken.
Getting information from Gaza is difficult. It is a lethal warzone. At least 181 journalists and media workers have been killed since the war started, almost all Palestinians in Gaza, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists. Israel won't let international news teams into Gaza.
Since the best way to check controversial and difficult stories is first hand, that means the fog of war, always hard to penetrate, is as thick as I have ever experienced in a lifetime of war reporting.
It is clear that Israel wants it to be that way. A few days into the war I was part of a convoy of journalists escorted by the army into the border communities that Hamas had attacked, while rescue workers were recovering the bodies of Israelis from smoking ruins of their homes, and Israeli paratroopers...
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...
Yeah... nothing like a survey. We witnessed the surveyors crawling the rubble with clipboards to make sure they could extrapolate the survey responses accurately.
As for "It’s not punishment. It’s war.", that's just sick and juvenile. Civilians have rights even in war.
Just wow. Nice propaganda there Mr. Goebbels. Palestine signed the Geneva Convention. Hamas is not the government of these civilians. Let's hold you responsible for the actions of The Bloods, The Crips, MS-13, Tren de Aragua, and Antifa.
“Civilians have rights even in war.”
There are no civilians in Gaza.
Not one.
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And there it is.
“Hamas is not the government of these civilians.”
Yes they are. There was a vote. Jimmy Carter himself declared it “free and fair.”
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Yep. There it is.
Flatten the entire place. Shove everyone who survives into Egypt at gunpoint.
Shoot anyone who twitches in resistance.
Then there will be peace.
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We saw the Hamas President speaking at the United Nations the other day. I don’t recall his name though.
Stand up proudly. You be you.
“We saw the Hamas President speaking at the United Nations the other day.”
So they are the government of Gaza. Didn’t you just say they weren’t?
“I don’t recall his name though.”
That’s a pretty significant piece of information to lack considering your strong, and completely wrong, opinions about what’s going on there.
Perhaps you should study up a bit before you post again.
On the other hand since he’s a dead man walking perhaps it doesn’t matter much. When the Israelis kill him and wipe his entire family from the face of the earth I shall pour a couple fingers of fine bourbon in celebration.
I’ll enjoy your indignation almost as much.
Almost.
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I am proud of it. Savages should be completely subjugated. It’s the only way to ensure the survival of civilization.
I certainly won’t apologize for it.
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I waould just keep moving the food delivery points until they were all out of the Gaza strip then build a big wall.
I never thought I'd read a comment here from someone who insisted he knew so much but would miss that one. It makes sense that you're arguing alongside cowboyusa.
Just wow.
‘ Flatten the entire place. Shove everyone who survives into Egypt at gunpoint.
Shoot anyone who twitches in resistance.
Then there will be peace.’
You’re on the right track.
If everyone dies, there’s no on to disagree.
Blow up the planet and all is well.
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“Blow up the planet and all is well.”
Gaza is not the entire planet.
Idiot.
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the big tough machomagaman is a member of the FR antisemite caucus so expect him to make stupid, irrelevant comments.
‘ Gaza is not the entire planet.
Idiot.’
Obviously.
Your solution is so well thought out and effective, might as well take it worldwide. Get rid of all the bad people and we can have peace on earth.
“Get rid of all the bad people and we can have peace on earth.”
We will never get rid of all the bad people. But we can sure as hell extirpate bad ideologies.
It’s us or them. Time to go full Carthage on islam.
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