then you never really cared for what Israel does in Gaza if you think things would improve on his reelection. The conflict will likely have died off by then tho...
Trump won't improve things, Biden won't improve things, the only thing that will is starve Israel from US taxpayer hand outs and discontinue the entitled attitude Israel has.
Don't forget these guys. I guess you will need to add the Aussies to your "hate list" (Jews, Christians, Chinese, etc.). On second thought, you are already not too approving of the Australian government. So nobody can say you discriminate -- you hate everybody!
Attacking terrorists who are shooting at you while they use civilians as human shields is not a war crime. First only a fool would take the claims about civilian casualties from the Hamas Health Ministry at face value -- the majority of those casualties are militants. Second, under international law Israel has not committed war crimes. The simply presence of civilian casualties in a war zone is not evidence of war crimes unless there is proof that the civilians were targeted outside the scope of legitimate military operations. Are the civilian casualties sad? Yes. However Hamas is solely responsible for all of them. The Casualties in Gaza Don’t Indicate War Crimes https://themessenger.com/opinion/civilian-casualties-gaza-israel-hamas-war-crimes A single death might be a tragedy and a million a statistic, as the saying goes, but there is no number of deaths that automatically constitutes a war crime. Increasingly, Israel’s critics are using the number of Gazans killed to argue that Israel should cease its military campaign to destroy Hamas after the terrorist group’s barbaric Oct. 7 attack. “[F]ar too many Palestinians have been killed,” both Vice President Kamala Harris and Secretary of State Antony Blinken have lamented. The casualty numbers are likely inaccurate and include thousands of terrorists. As National Security Council coordinator John Kirby has stated, “We can’t take anything coming out of Hamas, including the so-called Ministry of Health, at face value.” More importantly, casualties do not determine the legality, or morality, of military action. There is no magic number below which soldiers are law-abiding but, which, once crossed, renders them war criminals. Legality and morality must be judged on the specific intent of each attack, not its outcome. According to the principles of necessity and distinction, attacks must be directed only at known military targets and never deliberately at civilians only. But that does not mean civilian casualties automatically constitute a war crime. All responsible and respected scholars and international organizations acknowledge that, unfortunately, civilians will be injured and killed in war. The law of armed conflict does not prohibit such harm but, instead, attempts to limit it. Once a military target is selected, proportionality requires only that the commander anticipate that the attack’s military advantage will be greater than the potential for incidental harm to civilians. However, commanders must exercise constant care to mitigate that harm as much as is feasible. Succinctly, the law of armed conflict tolerates civilian casualties, however tragic, if they are not deliberately inflicted; if they occur while attacking significant military objectives; and if attempts are made to mitigate them. This means that an attack that kills no civilians could violate the law of armed conflict while another, which results in civilian casualties, might not. How could this be? Many legal experts believe that Hamas perpetrated war crimes by intentionally targeting civilians for murder, torture, rape, mutilation, and kidnapping. And Hamas likely commits a war crime with each of the roughly 12,000 rockets it has fired. Regardless of whether the rocket deliberately targets Israeli civilians or is haphazardly launched, regardless of whether it lands or is shot down, regardless of whether civilians die or not, Hamas’s desire to kill Israeli civilians — or even its complete disregard for whether its rockets hit a home, military base or a hospital — make its actions illegal because Hamas fails to distinguish between military and civilian targets. When Israel targets an apartment building in which a Hamas commander is present or under which Hamas has hidden its rockets, even if civilian casualties ensue, it has likely acted legally. Civilian infrastructure, when used to hide terrorists or their weapons, is a legitimate military target. Israel intensely scrutinizes its targets to evaluate the possibility of civilian casualties and uses active notifications — making phone calls or dropping leaflets — to encourage civilians to flee targeted areas. If too many civilians nevertheless remain, Israel has called off strikes. But, when it judges that the risk to civilians does not outweigh the benefit of the strike, Israel attacks lawfully. Because of the presence of terrorists or their weapons, because of the precautions Israel takes, because of the deliberate process of collateral damage estimation its professional military undertakes for each strike, Israel’s actions are legal — even when civilians tragically are killed. This approach follows the reasoning of the Old Testament and New Testament, our own criminal codes, and basic morality: intention determines criminality. Unintended deaths might be overlooked. Deliberate murder brings harsher penalties than manslaughter; hate crimes — murder committed with racial, ethnic or religious malice — harsher still. How could it be otherwise? To outlaw any civilian casualties in war would be to grant impunity to terrorists willing to illegally hide among civilians, as Hamas does. Setting some numerical threshold of deaths above which war crimes are deemed to have occurred would only incentivize terrorists to expose their human shields to as much danger as possible. This already is Hamas’s strategy. Counting on the international community to heap opprobrium on Israel, it deliberately puts Gazans in harm’s way. By blocking civilians from evacuating, allegedly shooting at them if they attempt to flee, and killing others with its own misfired rockets, Hamas feeds and weaponizes concerns for the well-being of Palestinians. Raw numbers are meaningless, at least when it comes to judging the legality or morality of Israel’s and Hamas’s conduct. Indignation over casualty figures only rewards Hamas’s illegal and flagrant disregard for civilian lives, leading to more deaths. Retired Rear Adm. Steven B. Kantrowitz served in the U.S. Navy’s Judge Advocate General’s Corps.
riiiight....because taking the IDF claim that every male casualty of fighting age is a terrorist is totally not foolish....Israeli numbers that put the civilian death toll still in the 15k as of a few weeks ago. "hey guise, guise, imma shoot these missiles at random in this general area because there's probably terrorists underground that the bombs will do nothing about. I don't mean to target civvies, I'm not a war criminal, I pinky promise." You need to take more clown courses GWB
The global arms trade is possibly one of the biggests 'global sinners'. What it all seems to do is fuel more violence. Americans love their guns for 'protection', (fear) and that inspires a gun industry which grows bigger by the year. This inspires more countries to self protect, so more guns, bombs, missiles produced. South Korea now wants nuclears arms. I suppose one day the whole shebang will blow up in our face, I can't see an alternative, every year we want more weapons, sending them into space now, add robotic weapons..... As for christians and Jews (don't wanna forget them) all the praying under the sun won't save them. Lets build bomb shelters and live underground, yah great idea, living a cockroach life is the way to go for our future.
Claims of genocide in Gaza are absurd... as outlined by the U.S. government. Hamas needs to stop using civilians as human shields. US 'not seeing acts of genocide' in Gaza, State Dept says https://www.reuters.com/world/us-not-seeing-acts-genocide-gaza-state-dept-says-2024-01-03/
Netanyahu and his right-wing government has no plan to create a two state solution. Instead they are casting about trying to find a country that will take in the Palestinian residents of Gaza. This "voluntary resettlement" would effectively be ethnic cleansing. Israel in Secret Talks to ‘Resettle’ Palestinians in Congo, Report Says https://www.thedailybeast.com/israel-in-secret-talks-to-resettle-palestinians-in-congo-report-says
your own conclusions do not compute: per UN: Why do you think Israel insists on "Palestinians" not being a thing or a people/group?