• gmtom@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Can you lot stop throwing out the word war crime to try and make things sound worse and get an emotional response.

    Killing civilians is not actually a war crime by itself.

    Israel does not recognise Palestine as a country or Hamas as a government, so they cannot be legally at war therefore it can’t be a war crime.

    Also as far as I’m aware Palestine is not a signatory to any convention on war crimes anyway.

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      1 year ago

      Your logic is so flawed that you’re either intentionally arguing in bad faith or extremely ignorant of the subject. Targeting a civilian population intentionally IS absolutely a war crime.

      https://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/war-crimes.shtml#:~:text=Some examples of prohibited acts,charitable purposes%2C historical monuments or

      “Some examples of prohibited acts include: murder; mutilation, cruel treatment and torture; taking of hostages; intentionally directing attacks against the civilian population; intentionally directing attacks against buildings dedicated to religion, education, art, science or charitable purposes, historical monuments or hospitals; pillaging; rape, sexual slavery, forced pregnancy or any other form of sexual violence; conscripting or enlisting children under the age of 15 years into armed forces or groups or using them to participate actively in hostilities.”

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        1 year ago

        Can you name a single participant in a single (active) war that did not kill civilians? Saying all war is a war crime, kind of makes war crimes pointless.

        And then even if we accept im wrong on that point (which honestly, im willing to do) my other points still stand.

    • tryptaminev 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺@feddit.de
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      1 year ago

      If we put the perpetuators in charge of defining, what constitutes as a crime and what doesn’t, there would be no crime anywhere and never.

      If a nations military or other organized fighters are conducting operations the terms and rules for war crimes should apply and the perpetuators and organizers should be held responsible. That goes for Hamas fighters and leaders as well as IDF soldiers and leaders.

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        1 year ago

        Yes, thats probably how it should be, but thats not how it actually is. Hence why the US doesnt sign conventions on war crimes either. and why we dont talk about terrorist groups like Al Queda as being war criminals.