...So proportionality applies only to Israel and not the US in 1941? Why do you apply this principle so selectively?
Hamas aims to eliminate Israel/Jews; Israel aims to eliminate Hamas. Perfectly proportional. In the long run it works out better for the Palestinians who will no longer be oppressed by Hamas. Call it liberation. — BitconnectCarlos
↪RogueAI I don't care. It was seventy years ago, and I wasn't there, nor do i have accurate understanding of the circumstances beyond the macro, and in the macro, it doesn't matter. The allies won. — AmadeusD
That tells you everything about their position. — RogueAI
I don't see anything outlandish about Israel's response here when compared with the US. — BitconnectCarlos
Hamas aims to eliminate Israel/Jews; Israel aims to eliminate Hamas. Perfectly proportional. In the long run it works out better for the Palestinians who will no longer be oppressed by Hamas. Call it liberation.
they have no basis to condemn Hamas' actions because it is simply fighting according to the rules by which such a war is fought. — Tzeentch
But Israel clearly escalated beyond any reasonable proportionality. — Benkei
public conscience — Benkei
Maybe find a moral compass before asking moral questions. — Benkei
If Israel were rational, they would just call it a "victory" and just stop the damn thing. — Manuel
Witnesses told Reuters that the raids targeted a military base adjacent to Sanaa airport, a military site near Taiz airport, a Houthi naval base in Hodeidah and military sites in Hajjah governorate.
The U.S. said Australia, Bahrain, Canada and the Netherlands supported the operation, and sought to present the strikes as part of an international effort to restore the free flow of trade in a key route between Europe and Asia that accounts for about 15% of the world's shipping traffic.
The Arab League has voiced support for South Africa's genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) over its deadly military offensive in the Gaza Strip.
Read the Geneva and the Hague conventions if you have problems wrapping your head around which principles are involved. Or alternatively grow a conscience. — Benkei
Or alternatively grow a conscience. — Benkei
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No. And you haven't read those conventions or you would already have the answer. But nice try hiding your ignorance behind sarcasm. — Benkei
Until a more complete code of the laws of war is issued, the High Contracting Parties think it right to declare that in cases not included in the Regulations adopted by them, populations and belligerents remain under the protection and empire of the principles of international law, as they result from the usages established between civilized nations, from the laws of humanity and the requirements of the public conscience.
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