Reply #67: Diving back in [View All]

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>>>>I think legally Gaza is a much different kettle of fish

>>Only in asmuch as Amnesty didn't comment on it, but I did and it's the same kettle of fish vis a vis Israel as it is illegally occupied terroitories of which there are several UN resolutions that regarding this matter, none of which Israel has bothered to address in much the same way as Lebanon has no bothered to address it's violations.

Israel was judged to be in full compliance with the UN resolutions regarding Lebanon, and has been since 2000. Israel has not been in compliance with the UN resolutions regarding Gaza and the West Bank; as such, it has additional responsibilities as an occupying power.

>>>>A) I've never said Israel's campaign was effective or wise
>>irrelevent...the effectiveness or not of Nazi Germany's attempts to murder a race was never judged a consideration by anyone, nor is it germaine to questions of war crimes...

And knee-jerk comparisons of current situations to Naziism rarely illuminate anything. I said it was not effective or wise because you seemed to be trying to judge Israel's "true" intent by the fact that the rocket launchers had not been destroyed. I was pointing out that incompetence is for the most part not criminal.

>>>>It's called the secuirty council...Israel can petition it at anytime. Israel leaves itself open to accusations of war crimes when it ignores resolutions on the one hand, but then cites them for rationale of their own excessive actions.

OK, I'll bite: Israel goes to the security council and says Hezbollah has not disarmed yet and is still launching rockets into Golan and northern Israel... what do you imagine would happen?