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WAR! What is it good for?

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  1. Star of David Bardsley

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    https://twitter.com/the_forty_four/status/1979539467892392323?s=46


    ****ed the embedding but yeah.
     
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    They had one job, stick the flag in the ground properly, and they couldn't even get that right. The country has gone to pot.
     
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    Still waiting for the nuclear apocalypse Ponkie predicted when Israel attacked Iran.
     
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    I cannot believe you are actually pursuing this line of argument. It has moved beyond astonishing to genuinely frightening.

    Hamas constructed 500km of tunnels across the Gaza strip.

    It did this using foreign aid.

    It could have held internal interrogations literally anywhere it wanted.

    It chose to do so in the small segment of tunnels directly underneath a hospital.

    It did this because it knows that the West is overflowing with apologists like you who will froth at the mouth when Israel targets that hospital.

    Your logic is essentially:
    Hamas can use a hospital for military purposes.
    But Israel can't attack those military targets because it is a hospital.

    You won't see such impossibly contradictory points applied to any other conflict anywhere in the world.
     
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    Don’t really know what’s going on but I’m seeing Hamas were conducting military operations from underneath the hospital. This suggestion was ridiculed by some on here plenty of times over the last couple of years.

    Now we know they definitely were, that makes the hospital a legitimate target and that is 100% on Hamas.

    Israel have got the hostages out. Now, they should go back in and get the job finished properly. Hamas are itching to get this going again, they broke the ceasefire by killing two Israeli soldiers. Give them what they want and **** what their sympathisers have to say about it.
     
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    Hospitals are never a legitimate target - Article 18 of the Geneva Convention - doctors, nurses and patients have no means to prevent armed men entering and misusing the hospital ... they don't become acceptable collateral damage because of that ...
     
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    That diploma in international law from BBC university had to come in handy eventually.
     
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    Welshie Chavcunt fanboy dickhead

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    Trump finally saying it as it is and doing something - Putin is a bullshit artists and obviously not a very good one if even the Donald can see through him.
     
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    The laws of war prohibit direct attacks on civilian objects, like schools. They also prohibit direct attacks against hospitals and medical staff, which are specially protected under IHL. That said, a hospital or school may become a legitimate military target if it contributes to specific military operations of the enemy and if its destruction offers a definite military advantage for the attacking side.

    If there is any doubt, they cannot be attacked. Hospitals only lose their protection in certain circumstances - for example if a hospital is being used as a base from which to launch an attack, as a weapons depot, or to hide healthy soldiers/fighters. And there are certain conditions too.

    Before a party to a conflict can respond to such acts by attacking, it has to give a warning, with a time limit, and the other party has to have ignored that warning.
     
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    Soldier F not guilty.



    FTP
     
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    won't be a popular sentiment but personally think from the evidence of the enquiry he was guilty of murder even if it is impossible for a court to find him guilty after all this time .
     
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    It’s a high bar to be sure in most cases. 50 years on it’s surely near impossible. People still not happy obviously.
     
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    quite
     
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