Everyone is morally responsible for their own acts. Tony is normally anodyne at best if not outright stupidly naive, especially when it comes to white Christians, Celebrities and the people of Battle Mountain, but sometimes the anodyne escapes people. Hamas and only Hamas, is responsible for its unspeakable acts of last Sunday, regardless of provocation. Israel, and only Israel, is responsible for any of its acts in pursuit of a justified military reaponse that violate international law.
You somehow combine cheap insults about Tony with a total misreading of the laws of war.
Israel is totally justified in wiping out Hamas. If Israel does not attack, Hamas will keep attacking
If you are naive about this remember Israel is not required to stop protecting its own citizens in order to spare Palestinian children.
As to the totality of the conflict there will never be Peace in the Mid East until the jihadists are annihilated.
There is no law of war that makes victory a crime
And you willfully misread my posts, which has nothing to do with a war against Hamas but rather the treatment of Palestinian civilians and potential war crimes against them.
I didn
"I mean, how long does it take to check your own work?"
My error.
I did not misread anything
Hamas put its own citizens into military targets,such as schools, etc.
Israel cannot be held responsible if citizens die when military targets are destroyed.
Nice dodge. That is both correct and not a response to the point I was making.
Andrew McCarthy in National Review
in times of War courtroom proof that a target is a strategic enemy asset is not required before attacking. Again, targeting is a judgment call made by military professionals based on experience and battlefield intelligence. The United States armed forces do not conduct a trial or seek a judicial warrant based on probable cause before striking terrorist havens in Afghanistan, Pakistan, or Yemen. Why, as Iraq War vet David French pointedly asks, would we expect Israel while fighting an existential defensive war against terrorists who repeatedly attack its territory to abide by self-defense restrictions we would not tolerate for ourselves?
Again, also correct and not a response to the point i was making. But you never really care about honestly responding to anyone else's point.
Then you had no point.
It is part of your consistent MO
But you never really care about honestly responding to anyone else's point. You just pretend there was not one. It is the only card in your hand.
But then you should revisit the discussion.
If you maintain Israel is morally responsible for its actions that is not a point in dispute.
Collateral damage when destroying military targets in war is not a War crime.
This is the point you refuse to acknowledge, as do nearly all Palestinian sympathizers.
American, Israeli, and other Western military forces do not wage war by targeting and terrorizing civilians, including raping women, murdering the defenseless, or taking hostages and using them as human shields.
