Gaza and Israel: Disproportioned Atrocities
A few weeks back, I posted an article here, “Israeli War Crimes in Gaza,” http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1379, which was met with some, shall we say, disputation?
The piece was not designed to be an exercise in flame-throwing or in anti-Semitism, charges which usually follow any critique, no matter how objective, of the state of Israel
Rather, the article attempted to distinguish the unvarnished truth about the admittedly-provoked 2009 attack on Gaza.
One Jewish critic of the exercise of grossly disproportionate power and the wildly disproportionate civilian casualties between the combatants, the emininent jurist, Richard Goldstone, was rudely dismissed as a wayward judge who had suffered a “moral inversion.”
In sum, his implicit immorality rested on the very shaky premise that the military actions of the Israeli Defense Force, the IDF, were all justifiable and well within the bounds of Geneva Convention war prohibitions. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1403)
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