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That's not really been the standard the world holds itself to since World War II. Yes, aggressors in a just war are expected to care for the civilian populatio

That's not really been the standard the world holds itself to since World War II. Yes, aggressors in a just war are expected to care for the civilian population in conquered territory. Starvation as a war weapon against civilians is a war crime. https://www.bsg.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/2019-11/BSG-WP-2019-031.pdf https://www.bsg.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/2019-11/BSG-WP-... In fact, the only place it's currently legal (though generally frowned upon) is in the context of a civil war, and if this is a civil war we're back to asking the question: how does Israel expect to find peace when 9 million citizens are oppressing 5 million with brutal military violence?

milesrout 2y ago
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- shadowgovt 2y ago
  Gaza isn't a separate country, the Palestinians are still Israelis in terms of international responsibility and national membership, seeing as how Palestine is not a recognized independent nation. How do we know this? Because Israel isn't under sanction for the activities they are undertaking that would be considered war crimes if done to another nation. It is a long-standing civil war that a couple generations of national leadership have failed to find a long-term resolution to. The current resolution of trying to ghetto the Palestinian people into controlled territories ("reservations," if you will, a common strategy used by colonizers to "handle" the native population) doesn't seem to be bearing fruit other than intergenerational violence.