WAR! What is it good for?

You can drop the patronising nonsense mate.

It is an ILLEGAL occupation

 

**** International Law, surely others don’t define your lines in life?

are you fine with it?

 

Was the breaking bones video a recent one?

I've read the said breaking bones policy under the first Intifada from 1987... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Intifada

 

I hope somebody ****s on your Challah

 

quite old…I saw it on Dispatches on channel 4 quite a while back tbh

 

Yeah it might be referring to this, if you want to go staright to it, go to the paragraph that starts: On February 26, 1988, 17-year-old Wael Joudeh and his cousin Osamah were returning home from grazing their sheep...

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/12/10/stories-from-the-first-intifada-they-broke-my-bones

I did see another article which had imbedded videos which are all deleted now as the user deleted their account, not that I wanted to see them, just wondered if they were still active. I didn't know about the Channel 4 documentary.


* the above link is dated 2017 so not to cause confusion and is referring to past events.

 

I don't know enough about it tbh.

Having read the entire legalese on Proportionality in Combat under IHL many times, all I can say is I'm glad it's not me making decisions that carry the heavy burden of life and death, and then applying them to impossibly complex and fast-moving circumstances.

There needs to be lines drawn somewhere and by someone, unless you'd prefer we go back to the WW2 and earlier era of dropping nukes on cities with zero military significance, all in the name of the 'war effort'?

 

That’s the one bro

or very very similar

was an account by a couple of kids

break their elbows so they can’t ever hold a weapon

simplistic thinking

affective though but not rocket science

That is what they call planning for the future

scumbags

 

Correct. Under international law, the occupation is illegal.

But also under international law, the ratio of civilian casualties in the current conflict is well within bounds.

You cannot pick and choose when to cite international law and when not to, it is infuriating and totally counter-productive to a fair debate.

 

IDF soldier brags about killing a 12 year old girl
https://www.instagram.com/yenisafakenglish/reel/C1ZDaD7L8Z3/

Children targeted by IDF snipers
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/02/gaza-palestinian-children-killed-idf-israel-war

12 year old boy shot dead for playing with a firework. Israeli minister praises the soldier as a 'Hero'

IDF soldiers admitting that it is permissible to 'shoot everybody'
https://www.commondreams.org/news/israeli-soldiers-gaza

Israeli forces routinely targeted Palestinian children with live ammunition and aerial attacks, prevented ambulances and paramedics from reaching wounded children, and confiscated children’s bodies in violation of international law.
https://www.dci-palestine.org/targe...Palestinian,in violation of international law.

12 year old boy shot dead by IDF and Israel's national security minister Ben Gvir praises the killing
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/ben-gvir-salutes-israeli-soldier-who-shot-dead-palestinian-child

There are dozens more examples if you want to search for them

 

My comment was a tad harsh. I’d far rather see 126,000 keffiyeh fancy dress Westerners die than 126,000 innocent-ish Palestinians.

 

Under international law, Israel shouldn't even be in Palestine, so the whole ratio equation is moot.

 

That sounds like a fair revision.

 

Mate, with all due respect, one child killed is one child too many ... I don't give a flying about ratios ... that' bollocks ...

I for one will never buy that 'in order to defend itself' from what, after all, is nothing more than an armed militia, Israel had to raze Gaza to the ground and render it uninhabitable to human existence ... that's ethic cleansing, ... not misguided trigonometry!!

 

98.6% of the population is still alive after more than a year.

Pretty shoddy "ethnic cleansing".

Maybe Israel should hire Assad to teach them how to do it properly and in a way that the rest of the world doesn't give a ****.

 

Anyway, it's my birthday today. I'm done with trying to explain how soldiers targeting children is ****ing wrong on every level and being given some cold ratio statistics in return.

It's ****ed up

Good day to you all.

 

... and living where?

 

That's ok bro.

Fosse's just got himself up and dressed, he'll take it from here.

 

Happy birthday you ****ing hippy