Saturday January 24, 2009

I've Been Thinking:

Israel is bracing itself and preparing a legal defense in the international courts that will charge them for war crimes.

Article 147 of the Fourth Geneva Convention clearly defines war crimes as the "Willful killing, torture, or inhuman treatment, including .. willfully causing great suffering or serious injury to body or health, ... taking of hostages and extensive destruction and appropriation of property, not justified by military necessity and carried out unlawfully and wantonly."

The International Committee of the Red Cross embellishes the Geneva Conventions saying "The parties to conflict must at all times distinguish between the civilian population and combatants in order to spare the civilian population and civilian property. Neither the civilian population as a whole nor individual civilians may be attacked."

There will be a serious attack against Israel in the international courts of law but they will fail.

The law is pretty cut and dry. Israel's behavior has been pretty transparent.

What does become clear is that according to international law Hamas' actions perfectly fit the definition of war crimes.

Sadly and perhaps ironically Hamas will not be brought before an international court for their crimes.

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