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What was the new evidence the Israelis used to convince Judge Goldstone they didn't target civilian targets?
@william, I'm not disputing or excusing what Hamas did, I asked for the new evidence that Israeli authorities show Judge Goldstone. BTW any targeting of civilians is a war crime.
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- Misty BlueLv 79 years agoFavorite Answer
Evidence? Lol.I think the word your looking for is threat.
Lets not kid ourselves this was about defence.Israel had an impending election and this brutal carnage was the election campaign.Killing and collectively punishing innocent people,shooting them in the back,murdering old ladies while they were waving white flags,burning schoolkids with phosphorous,flattening businesses and the wholesale slaughter of entire families in their homes.Hardly like for like.Lethal pin accurate house destroying missiles against erratic modified fireworks.Goldstone sold his soul to the devil imho.
There's a well known youtube video showing the length Zionists go to manipulate wikipedia in favour of their version of events.They hold seminars and training session.No surprise there then.
- 9 years ago
In 2007, exiled Hamas political chief Khaled Mashaal called recent rockets attacks on Israel "self-defense".[109] Hamas leaders argue that "rocket attacks on Israel are the only way to counter Israel's policies and operations, including artillery strikes". Nevertheless, Human Rights Watch has said that such justifications do not overcome the illegality of the attacks under laws governing reprisals, which prohibit direct or indiscriminate attacks on civilians. In its August 2009 report, HRW notes that the absence of Israeli military forces in the areas struck by the rockets, as well as statements from the leaders of Hamas and other armed groups, indicate that many of these attacks are deliberately intended to strike Israeli civilians and civilian structures; individuals who willfully authorize or carry out deliberate or indiscriminate attacks against civilians are committing war crimes.
The Amnesty report, published in July 2009, said Palestinian militants rocket fire from the Gaza Strip was "indiscriminate and hence unlawful under international law", regardless of small number of civilian casualties
EU's Common Foreign and Security Policy, expressed understanding of the call to change the laws governing warfare, saying that "in yesterday's world there were wars of armies against armies and there were laws and conventions that dealt with the conduct of such wars. It is necessary to invest thought to the changing situation in which there is asymmetry between fighting parties, a situation in which it is difficult to implement the classic/old rules of war." At the same time he stressed that "until new rules are in place we must obey the old ones"
So in summary Hamas was attacking civilians as well as hiding in the civilian population to
do this. Israel has a right to defend herself by targeting those attack which may have resulted in
legal civilian deaths which should be attributed to the cowards Hamas.
- JohnLv 69 years ago
Must have been some pretty convincing evidence with the bodies of hundreds of dead Palestinian women and children piled up in Gaza hospitals and hundreds more with arms and legs blown off. People begged Israel not to brutalise the Palestinians, but you can judge for yourself their response to that.