Experts from US, Germany warn IDF ‘legal zeal’ sets dangerous precedent tying hands of democracies fighting terror.
Willy Stern of Vanderbilt Law School listed how the IDF bombarded Gaza residents with thousands of telephone calls, leaflet drops, TV and radio messages, as well as calls to influential citizens urging them to evacuate residents, and in doing so gave the terrorist enemy detailed information about its troop movements.
“It was abundantly clear that IDF commanders had gone beyond any mandates that international law requires to avoid civilian casualties,” writes Stern.
Michael Schmitt, director of the Stockton Center for the Study for International Law at the US Naval War College, also agreed that the IDF is creating a dangerous state of affairs that may harm the West in its fight against terrorism.
“The IDF’s warnings certainly go beyond what the law requires, but they also sometimes go beyond what would be operational good sense elsewhere, People are going to start thinking that the United States and other Western democracies should follow the same examples in different types of conflict. That’s a real risk,” said Schmitt.
En gang juridisk nonsens.
Ingen er forpligtet til at følge Israels “Rules of engagements”, men kan helt klart fastsætte sine egne ganske som man vil.
Israelerne er tossegode og burde i stedet følge russiske/asiatiske/kommunistiske regler for bekæmpelse af terror: smadr det hele, inklusive civilbefolkningen, idet terror/modstandskamp kan ikke finde sted uden opbakning fra de lokale.
Det er det klassiske dilemma: man passerer gennem en landsby og ved, at så snart man har forladt den, vil en af indbyggerne løbe til de lokale partisaner/terrorister og melde. Hvorefter man vil falde i baghold og miste nogle af sine mænd.
Skal man tage hensyn til sine mænd eller de “uskyldige” landsbybeboere?
Skal man likvidere landsbyen, inden man forlader den – eller acceptere, at man med stor sandsynlighed vil lide unødige tab kort efter?
Krigens love er helt klare, kommer der et angreb (raket, mortergranat osv) fra et område, kan man nedkæmpe det uden hensyn til omgivelserne.
Ja helt præcist. Israel skulle tæppebombe hele Gaza så ville det palæstinensiske problem være løst