CNN has blood on their hands paying Saddam for exclusive access to Iraq during Saddam’s killing years.
hamas has for years rocketed Israel and they have broken treaties. Israel is correct in destroying hamas.
Tell your cowardly friends to stop hiding behind women and chidren in their schools and mosques!
the cnn mentality: blame it on the jooooooos.
“disproportionately inhumane onslaught”
No such thing. You have a scratch, you itch until it’s gone.
Hamas started what it cannot finish - sucks to be them. They should have never started it.
Both sides... CNN and Ham-ass.
The only thing Israel has done wrong is allowing the problem to stay. Kick the Palis out, let them live with their arab brothers.
Wow, thats brave.
both sides have committed acts tantamount to "war crimes,"
The whole notion of "war crimes" has been devalued to the point that its meaningless. When firing rockets and mortar shells into neighborhoods is considered equivalent to the military action intended to stop the attacks, the words have become meaningless.
Geneva Conventions prohibit armed reprisals that intentionally inflict "collective punishment" against civilian populations as well as the targeting of nonmilitary targets.
Hamas has been targeting nonmilitary targets for years, forever, from its very birth. Thats what Hamas is, and thats what it does. So, who is going to stop it? Anyone? No one? No one. If Israel doesn't do it, no one will stop them. No arab will even speak against them, because why? Because its deadly dangerous to speak against them.
And since Hamas is technically a civilian organization, they recruit civilians, they hide among civilians, they launch their attacks from among civilians, it is impossible to target them without killing civilians. Impossible. Of course, these are the same civilians who empowered them from the beginning, and elected them into power. So its a bit much to pretend that the civilians around them are innocent bystanders.
Do they really want a proportional response? Do they really want Israel to lob mortar shells into Gaza neighborhoods every day of the year, year in and year out? No, of course not. Which is why the "proportionality" argument is fraudulent.
Writers like this one never complain when Hamas targets civilians. They only discover "international law" when Israel tries to stop it. Which means their complaints are meaningless.
No such thing for those who have no state nor any claim to a state...who are nothing but pawns for the other gutless arab states.....who are nothing but nameless arabs who have been manipulated by the gutless arabs who can't do their own fighting but have scabs do it for hem.
Israel must strive for complete victory or be prepared to recommence the slaughter at a later date.....
“Arsalan”
“Arse” for short.
And "all" Israelis targeted by Hamas missile attacks have been civilians. All of them.
Under international law, the Geneva Conventions prohibit armed reprisals that intentionally inflict "collective punishment" against civilian populations as well as the targeting of nonmilitary targets.
Arsalan fails to mention that hiding weaponry in and firing same from schools, religious sites or, indeed, any civilian area that hasn't first been cleared, is a clear violation of the Geneva Conventions.
The purpose of such a qualification in the Geneva Conventions is to avoid putting civilians at risk.
Both Iftikhar and CNN are guilty of being either provable morons...or propaganda shills for the Palestinians. Or both.
When I read things like this, I always think of when my son was in the 5th grade. A 6th grade boy, named Billy, started pestering/bullying my son in little ways on a daily basis. This went on for 1 1/2 years. Finally one day, Billy pushed his luck one too many times. My son flew off the playground equipment he was on, shedding his coat at the same time, and whipped Billy all over the playground. My son would not let up and was relentless until he made a believer of Billy.
Someone alerted the Principal, who stood at the door watching, and told me later he was rooting for my son because he'd watched him put up with this for so long, but was ready to intervene if it looked like one would really get hurt.
Billy never bothered my son again after that, but actually wanted to be friends. No one else bothered my son either.
The "proportionality" doctrine gives the agressor control over how much they want to risk and, as a result, makes war more rational and likely. You'll notice that they had one doozy of a war after 1907 because they thought war was something that could be controlled and used as just another policy tool. There wasn't so much proportionality during WW2, where cities were firebombed, nuclear weapons were dropped on civilians, and unconditional surrender was demanded. You'll notice that there weren't any world wars after that.
Attempted Moral Equivalency - One of the evil tools of the left.
I respect upfront anti-semites more than the covert “moral equivalency” anti-semites.
Moral equivalency is morally bankrupt.
In current confrontations, Israel and their supporters must understand selective moral outrage leads worldwide condemnation. Acceptable political analysis offers the gullible a tortured rhetoric linking tightly focused visions of shattered hometown settings to fabricated motives equivalent to Sudanese militia.
Under these logics Israel is castigated for killing civilians. However, the clear and obvious reading of Articles 28 and 29 of the Fourth Geneva Convention says terrorist organizations such as Hammas are responsible for those deaths .
These civilians qualify as Protected Persons within Hammas’ physical control, and cannot be used to render certain points and areas immune from military operations. Terrorist organizations choose first to use the Arab people as biodegradable sandbags, and in death display them as props for advancing political agendas.
It’s unfair when militarily competent nations strike back at terrorists who intentionally target civilians.
CNN and Hamas are equally wrong.
If the German people deserved Dresden because they elected Hitler, then the Palis deserve whatever the Israelis dish out for electing Hamas.