I think you are being too generous toward the "legitimate" critics of Israel. Of course, everyone should have compassion for the innocent Palestinian civilians being victimized in the war against Hamas. But to demand a unilateral ceasefire from Israel, or to blame Israel for Palestinian victimization, is to excuse Palestinian "leadership" from its responsibility for the fact that there could have been a Palestinian state 75 years ago, or 20 years ago, had they simply accepted Israel's right to exist and signed a peace treaty with them.
Every civilian death is a tragedy, but I also believe every civilian death is the fault of Hamas and all nations surrounding Israel that refuse to accept the right of Israel to exist.
Exactly this. There is an assistant professor of "international criminal law, the law of war, international legal history and political theory" who gets called upon occasionally by the news and current affairs producers at the CBC to opine on such matters as South Africa's application before the ICJ. On October 8th, she was busy on X claiming that Hamas et al had license to commit what would otherwise be deemed war crimes. Following the news of Hezbollah's exploding pagers, said professor was back on X arguing with Oz Katerji that the IDF was guilty of more war crimes, now against the innocents of Hezbollah. Oz was having none of it, naturally. The problem is that this professor's students and the CBC's average audience members have no idea how "dubious" this professor's opinions really are.
You're absolutely right. When we see organizations like Human Rights Watch and for that matter UN spokesmen condemning the pager attack even while the most basic facts are still unknown it makes clear their agenda is simply to criticize Israel no matter what.
I think you are being too generous toward the "legitimate" critics of Israel. Of course, everyone should have compassion for the innocent Palestinian civilians being victimized in the war against Hamas. But to demand a unilateral ceasefire from Israel, or to blame Israel for Palestinian victimization, is to excuse Palestinian "leadership" from its responsibility for the fact that there could have been a Palestinian state 75 years ago, or 20 years ago, had they simply accepted Israel's right to exist and signed a peace treaty with them.
Every civilian death is a tragedy, but I also believe every civilian death is the fault of Hamas and all nations surrounding Israel that refuse to accept the right of Israel to exist.
Exactly this. There is an assistant professor of "international criminal law, the law of war, international legal history and political theory" who gets called upon occasionally by the news and current affairs producers at the CBC to opine on such matters as South Africa's application before the ICJ. On October 8th, she was busy on X claiming that Hamas et al had license to commit what would otherwise be deemed war crimes. Following the news of Hezbollah's exploding pagers, said professor was back on X arguing with Oz Katerji that the IDF was guilty of more war crimes, now against the innocents of Hezbollah. Oz was having none of it, naturally. The problem is that this professor's students and the CBC's average audience members have no idea how "dubious" this professor's opinions really are.
You're absolutely right. When we see organizations like Human Rights Watch and for that matter UN spokesmen condemning the pager attack even while the most basic facts are still unknown it makes clear their agenda is simply to criticize Israel no matter what.