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With "criticizing a nation", you probably mean criticizing a nation illegally occupying another Nation's territory, repeatedly breaking international human righ
by kurren 12y ago
With "criticizing a nation", you probably mean criticizing a nation illegally occupying another Nation's territory, repeatedly breaking international human rights conventions, and indiscriminately killing civilians (with a particularly predilection for children).
I'm part of a large, and growing, international community not supporting anything Israel.
- dvirsky 12y agoDisclaimer: I'm not the author of the post, just linked to it.
- ffanf 12y agoAnd yet you're happy to get all the karma from it (as you said on Roi Carthy's FB wall).
- yonibot 12y agoThere's nothing illegal about the occupation per se, although it is clearly a bad situation for the local population. As far as the current conflict is concerned, Israel is one of the more moral armies around. It is fighting against Hamas, which houses weapon stores among densely-populated civilian areas and builds tunnels under civilian areas to launch terror attacks, leaving Israel no choice but to fight among urban populations. As if that were not enough - Hamas tells its own people to ignore Israel's warnings to leave town, because they know that civilians are their best defence. As opposed to occupying, using human shields is actually a crime under international law. See http://www.icrc.org/customary-ihl/eng/docs/v1_cha_chapter32_rule97 http://www.icrc.org/customary-ihl/eng/docs/v1_cha_chapter32_..., for instance.