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To: Yehuda
Yes, San Remo Manual on International Law Applicable to Armed Conflicts at Sea (1994)is the most recent legal document on the laws of naval engagement and maritime conflict. It is often cited by the Israelis to justify their blockade. It's the updated version of the Declaration of London 1909 that established the laws of Naval warfare etc.

If so, are you claiming that Gaza is “starving”? Is that within 1 block or 10 from the gourmet restaurants and the olympic pool?

I have made no claims about starvation one way or the other. I simply stated that it is not illegal to attempt to run a blockade under the San Remo Manual, but you might get shot for trying.

Which it won’t despite your sarcasm, especially since they have both his arab lovers and his connections to Hamas and the PLO under observation.

There was no sarcasm in that statement. It is simply a fact that the Israelis may expel whomever they will for whatever they judge to be just cause. Other parties may also freely criticize the foolishness of the call.

it certainly may expel HAMAS from the PLANET because it feels that is in its best interests (and you’re welcome, since you benefit every time Israel flushes some jihadi even if you are ungrateful).

You act like everything the Israelis are doing it out of kindness for the US. They're not doing it for America, they're doing it for themselves, its business. The Israelis of course, they do things that from time to time benefit the US, but they also do things that are harmful to US interests as well. I would like nothing more than to have the Israelis as friends, but can we trust them? Though they are probably doing the world some services by going after bad guys, not everyone they assassinate is a justified target, but I guess that is just collateral damage to some? Though I hope that the Israelis are sincerely US friends, they do many things that are not friendly to the US and are possibly even malicious. There is so much cloak and dagger stuff that the Israelis are involved in its hard to tell when they're being good or bad and who they really support. You could probably write a good novel on it.

“do you want to stoop to their level” goes on the tombstones of those too kittenized (sic) to kill their enemies before they and their families are blown up, beheaded, burned to death and chopped up and fed to the worms by those who don’t have your sensitive “scruples”.

You are asserting that the ends justify the means though you won't come out and say it in those words. Just remember that you are perfectly free to see the world from that perspective, and perhaps it is even the most realistic political world view, but if you embrace that view, then you have no right to complain about it as if what your enemy is doing is unfair. It was the same view that Hitler embraced as well. (You may also feel free to ask yourself if he had the scruples you disdain so much.) Israel had better be careful....when you stare into the abyss, the abyss also stares back into you. All of us must be wary lest we become the evil that we are trying to destroy. The policy you have endorsed is "anything goes." And though that may be reality, I am sure you realize that that policy is almost always reciprocated when possible.

16 posted on 06/15/2010 9:45:29 PM PDT by old republic
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