Murray Rothbard on classical and modern international law and statesmanship
11 Nov 2014 Leave a comment
Peace in the Middle East – Pat Condell
06 Nov 2014 Leave a comment
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Ronald Reagan and Murray Rothbard agree on just wars
17 Oct 2014 Leave a comment
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What the UN didn’t show with their maps of Gaza – Whale Oil Beef Hooked
27 Aug 2014 Leave a comment
in laws of war, war and peace Tags: Hamas, UN bias, war crimes
Live launch of missile right behind him forces journalist to discover Hamas war crimes
12 Aug 2014 Leave a comment
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The most damning footage came on August 5 from Gallagher Fenwick of the TV network France 24. Several days prior, he had been reporting live when a Hamas rocket whooshed over his head.
Returning later to scene, he revealed that it had been a densely populated area 100 meters from a U.N. facility and 50 meters from a hotel frequented by foreign journalists.
Hamas spin
08 Aug 2014 Leave a comment
in laws of war, war and peace Tags: Hamas
"Anyone killed or martyred is to be called a civilian from Gaza or Palestine, before we talk about his status in jihad or his military rank. Don’t forget to always add ‘innocent civilian’ or ‘innocent citizen’ in your description of those killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza.
"Begin [your reports of] news of resistance actions with the phrase ‘In response to the cruel Israeli attack,’ and conclude with the phrase ‘This many people have been martyred since Israel launched its aggression against Gaza.’ Be sure to always perpetuate the principle of ‘the role of the occupation is attack, and we in Palestine are fulfilling [the role of] the reaction.’
"Avoid publishing pictures of rockets fired into Israel from [Gaza] city centers. This [would] provide a pretext for attacking residential areas in the Gaza Strip. Do not publish or share photos or video clips showing rocket launching sites or the movement of resistance [forces] in Gaza.
HT: memri.org
Palestinian revanchism is a recipe for endless wars
06 Aug 2014 8 Comments
in laws of war, Murray Rothbard, war and peace Tags: Gaza Strip, Hamas, irredentism, Murray Rothbard, revanchism, warmongering
Why are borders in 1861, 1919, 1945, 1948, 1956 or 1967 or any other time morally superior?
Palestinian revanchism is a recipe for endless wars. Revanchism is the desire to reverse territorial losses.
Revanchism is linked with irredentism, the conception that a part of the cultural and ethnic nation remains “unredeemed” outside the borders of its appropriate nation-state.
• A return of German revanchism would plunge Europe back into war as Germany marched to reclaim Western Poland and the Sudetenland lost after the massive ethic cleansing in 1945 and the moving of Poland 1/3rd to the left after Potsdam.
• The Balkans and Eastern Europe would be plunged into war to revise the 1945 and the 1919 boundaries.
• Irish revanchism and irredentism over protestant Northern Ireland led to war from 1922 onwards.
The just war doctrine of the Catholic Church found in the 1992 Catechism of the Catholic Church, which is a convenient summary as any on what is and is not a just war, lists four strict conditions for legitimate defence by military force:
- the damage inflicted by the aggressor on the nation or community of nations must be lasting, grave, and certain;
- all other means of putting an end to it must have been shown to be impractical or ineffective;
- there must be serious prospects of success;
- the use of arms must not produce evils and disorders graver than the evil to be eliminated (the power of modern means of destruction weighs very heavily in evaluating this condition).
Hamas does not have any serious prospects of success in its attacks on Israel. Therefore any military action by Hamas is an unjust war
Why are the Hamas rockets so primitive and inaccurate?
05 Aug 2014 Leave a comment
in laws of war, war and peace Tags: dead baby strategy, Hamas
Hamas has always used inaccurate and primitive rockets. Quite clearly they and their sponsors don’t want to actually be any sort of real threat to Israel.
If Hamas actually had serious missile technology, Israel would have to take far more severe steps to prevent attack.
More importantly, those useful idiots who criticise Israel and support as we find it much more difficult to do so if the Hamas was starting to do serious damage to Israel and its cities. (Useful idiot is a term for people perceived as propagandists for a cause whose goals they are not fully aware of, and who are used cynically by the leaders of the cause.)
The pathetic state of their rocket technology and their dead baby strategy are all a media game, a media game where civilians die. Of course, as is well-known, 80% of the civilian casualties in the Gaza Strip in the present conflict are male; a majority of these male casualties are men aged 18 to 30 – young men of military age.
Why no International Criminal Court arrest warrants for the Hamas leadership for the war crime of using human shields?
04 Aug 2014 Leave a comment
in laws of war, war and peace Tags: Hamas, human shields, International Criminal Court, Nuremberg trials, war crimes
Karl Student had a clever idea: use British prisoners of war as human shields for his advancing German troops in Crete in 1941. Six British prisoners of war died from fire from the British side of the battle. The use of prisoners of war as human shields was the subject of war crimes trials by the UK Military Court in the Student case in 1946 and the US Military Tribunal at Nuremberg in the Von Leeb (The High Command Trial) case in 1948.
Under the Statute of the Statute of the International Criminal Court ICC Statute, Article 8(2)(b)(xxiii) , it is a war crime to
utili[se] the presence of a civilian or other protected person to render certain points, areas or military forces immune from military operations
In 1990 and 1991, Saddam held more than 800 Western, Japanese, and Kuwaiti nationals as involuntary human shields at strategic installations in Iraq and Kuwait. Saddam broadcast this picture of him putting his greasy dictator paws over some poor child he was holding hostage.
In the Karadžić and Mladić case in 1995 before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, the accused were charged with war crimes for using UN peacekeepers as human shields.
The Gaza Strip is not a free country. Those that disobey the orders of the Hamas government to not evacuate and to not leave buildings in the case of warning missiles risk severe punishments including execution. in the Gaza Strip, it does not pay to give neighbours ammunition to settle old scores.
Why hasn’t the International Criminal Court issued warrants for the arrests of the Hamas leaders who have enabled the use of human shields?
The Palestinian Authority has previously sought to invoke the jurisdiction of the International criminal Court against Israel. The Palestinian Authority has already acceded to the Geneva conventions earlier this year.
The Palestinian Authority and Hamas would not only be able to sue Israel in the International Criminal Court, they would also expose themselves to war crimes prosecutions.
Israeli security forces make strenuous efforts to adhere to international law, while Hamas and other Palestinian terrorist groups are routinely engaged in war crimes, such as shooting rockets at civilians.
HT: icrc.org
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