The State of "Palestine" Quiz

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  • Byrnzie
    Byrnzie Posts: 21,037
    Byrnzie wrote:
    yosi wrote:
    Yes, you're right, when you're fighting in densely populated civilian areas civilians will be killed. That is an unavoidable fact, which is why the laws of war do not categorically consider civilian deaths to be unjustified. I would've expected you to know that already given how much you rant about international law. The difference between justifiable (though tragic) collateral damage and terrorism is this: collateral damage is the result of an attack on a legitimate military target; terrorism is an attack on a target that is categorically illegitimate. But again, I'm sure you already knew that.

    Norman Finkelstein - 'Knowing Too Much' - Why The American Jewish Romance With Israel Is Coming To An End
    P.116: "Indiscriminate attacks differ from direct attacks against civilians,' Israel's leading authority on International law, Yoram Dinstein, observed, in that "the attacker is not actually trying to harm the civilian population": the injury to the civilians is merely a matter of "no concern to the attacker." From the standpoint of LOIAC [Law of International Armed Conflict], there is no genuine difference between a premeditated attack against civilians (or civilian objects) and a reckless disregard of the principle of distinction: they are equally forbidden. [Yoram Dinstein - 'The Conduct of Hostilities under the law of International Armed Conflict' 2004].

    Care to respond to this Yosi?

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