• Zaktor
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    1 year ago

    Ok, let’s send them to the Hague I guess? Why do you think this is an important point? Hamas isn’t actually a legitimate organization that signed on to international law and would ever care what “legitimate warfare” is. They just went into Israel and murdered a bunch of civilians. If these fighters are caught whether the UN thinks they were wrong is the least of their problems.

    And none of that makes Israel attacking a hospital (or just the blatant collective punishment) justified.

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      1 year ago

      Except it literally does justify attacking the hospital. Black on white, letter and spirit of the law.

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        1 year ago

        No it doesn’t, and you’re a shitty person for thinking that.

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          1 year ago

          Just because you don’t like something doesn’t make it wrong. They’re right about legitimate targets regarding conflict rules

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            1 year ago

            “Whether it’s ok to bomb a hospital” isn’t a legal question.

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              1 year ago

              We aren’t discussing if “it’s ok”, we are discussing the Rules of Conflict. War is never ok, but war without rules is even worse

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                Except it literally does justify attacking the hospital.

                “Justified” and “legal” are two separate judgements. OP wants to conflate them to excuse an unjust act.