That would lead to better conditions for everyone who isn't a terrorist.
Weren’t most POW’s fighting in uniform and didn’t they fight military personnel instead of civilians?
In actuality as terrorists they are the same as spies and should have already have been executed as such.
That would contradict more than 2000 years of legal development. If you want to be treated as prisoners of war, then you must observe the rules of war.
Too bad, but blowing up women and children, picking up babies by their feet and knocking their brains out, all that sort of thing, just isn’t very nice.
Hard as it might be for a Mohammedan to understand why.
In point of fact, according to the rules of war, these terrorists should be given summary judgment and executed on the spot, unless they might be useful sources of information.
That means any and every person in Abbas is considered an enemy combatant and will be hunted down and killed like rats till they surrender.
On television networks, on ships, in magazine interviews, while standing by airports awaiting aid, everywhere and anywhere you will be in a free fire zone. THAT's what war is. Not this mealy mouthed cr#p that our TOFUS and gay quislings in the legislature and butt licker flag officers think war is. It's total destruction of the opponent's ability to continue our political dispute. So when either we "give up" or you "give up" it's ON.
That should include any Abbas sympathizers here. The blood stained uniforms of all the American troops should be draped across the dead bodies of the Abbas sympathizers in THIS COUNTRY.
burn their houses, confiscate their property and kill any collaborators.
That's what real war is.
I for one would f'ing RELISH it.
I don’t think even the Europeans are crazy enough anti-Semites to go along with that.
Simple enough -- Abbas recognizes Israel. Problem solved.
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Eleutheria5: Why don't the terrorists recognize the rules of war, then? Wear uniforms instead of disguises, don't hide behind civilians, don't target civilians...
As Eleutheria5 correctly points out, they are illegal combatants. As such, entitled to no protection under the Geneva Convention, and are subject to the jurisdiction of the detaining nation. Which is their current status.