Posted on 03/04/2008 6:22:19 AM PST by tedbel
I asked Col. Bruce T Smith for a legal opinion on what restrictions or laws Israel is subject to in its self defense and included the opinion in my post Bomb Gaza. Win the War.
What could be clearer.
Just the other day Ehud Barak said that he was going to ask the Justice Ministry for an opinion on the matter. This is a joke. There is no question that Barak has numerous legal opinions on the question throughout his career and now that he is Defense Minister must have viewed all the opinions given to his predecessor during the Lebanese War. PM Olmert also muddied the waters when he said "Nobody has the right to preach morals to Israel for taking basic measures to defend itself.” He obviously is introducing a moral standard rather than a legal one. But the moral standard is a quagmire. A state owes a duty to its citizens to defend them. Fulfilling this duty is its highest value. A state is derelict if it compromises this duty by concern for a non-existent duty to avoid killing enemy civilians. The only duty in war a state has is not to intentionally kill civilians. If civilians get killed as collateral damage even in disproportionate numbers, it is still legal. The IDF must kill as many of its terrorists as it can with the least casualties of its own. This is its duty and its morality.
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“truly uninvolved and innocent civilians,”
Interesting point of innocent. Most Americans and their families never owned slaves and most people in this country had families living in another part of the world and were not here during slavery yet, everyone must pay the price of 100’s of years ago.
What makes some in a society innocent?
“Do unto others before they do unto you.”
You won't find many of these in the area.
After all, we are talking about palestinian muslims.
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Does this apply to IRS agents and enviro nuts?
No, as much as that pains me to say, that’s not true.
A significant percentage of the arabs are hateful killers, probably a majority of them are sympathizers (but do not act), and then there are plenty that are helpful and just want to raise their families and have a good business.
I would say, but for OUTSIDE influence and $$$ (first Saddam and Sunis, now Iran) they would have become like Egypt -— that is, not a place to flaunt one’s Jewishness, but OK.
Does this apply to IRS agents and enviro nuts?
I don't know -- but it should.
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