To all Palestinian/Hamas Apologists The Israel/Arab conflict is as much a media war as it is a war of fire and steel. The Palestinian liberation fighters ostensibly seeks their own homeland (which incidentally they were offered in the 2 state solution by Israel). What makes the Palestinian cause different from all other liberation struggles, is their avowed aim, even written into their own manifestos, of the destruction of Israel, a legal state and a member of the UN. As far as I can remember, no freedom movement in recent times has aimed for more than independence, and certainly not genocide of the occupying party. Gandhi’s Congress Party, Kenyattas Mau Mau, even the IRA never had any goal apart from achieving independence. As far as israel is concerned, The Palestinians can have any government they want, but if that government attacks Israel, it will of course be counterattacked. Much capital is also being made by the Palestinians that innocent civilians are being killed by the Zionist forces. Civilians who deliberately intercede in a conflict, such as standing on rooftops to protect Hamas, lose their non-combatant status and can no longer be treated as collateral casualties. Many of the apologists are wringing their hands over “disproportionate use of force” by Israel. The question about what is disproportionate force? The quantitative use of force as I see it is the force required to achieve the military objective i.e. preventing terrorist attacks on Israels homeland, without going beyond it, for example, wanton killing and destruction and deliberate deaths of non-combatants. Israel, in this respect was and still is a model of restraint, with a military code of ethics which very few armies can hope to attain. Abbas and the Palestinian authority have requested membership of the ICC (international Criminal Court) in order to try and prosecute Israel for genocide. As the ICC only seems to deal with serious mass killings of civilians and/or where there is no independent legal local system to prosecute perpetrators, I see no threat to Israel in this case. On the other hand the ICC should have no difficulty prosecuting or sentencing Hamas as a genocidal, anti-semitic, terror group. Despite its best efforts Hamas has so far failed in its attempts at genocide. But it proclaims its aim and practices what it preaches by targeting and also hiding behind civilians.. It goes without saying that Gaza possesses nothing resembling and independent judiciary that could possibly prosecute Hamas war crimes. Hence ICC should do the job. If it refuses, then Israel could lend a hand by prosecuting captured leaders itself, such as it did with Adolf Eichmann. Hamas is rapidly losing friends, even in the Arab world because their mindset is seen as damaging to the Arab cause. Strange bedfellows though they may seem, Egypt and Jordan, together with Israel, if they manage to throw up a visionary statesman such as the likes of Anwar Sadat, could possibly end this endless cycle of violence and usher in a new era both for Jews and Arabs David Coddington
Posted on: Sun, 13 Jul 2014 10:12:44 +0000
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