Opposition motions calling for a range of economic and diplomatic sanctions, including the expulsion of Israel’s ambassador in Dublin Dana Erlich, were defeated in the Dail on Wednesday evening.
Proposals for Ireland to refer Israel to the International Criminal Court (ICC) were also voted down.
While the Government did not expel Russia’s ambassador after the invasion of Ukraine, it did back EU sanctions against Vladimir Putin’s regime and also referred its actions to the ICC.
Well, crimes and morals are largely about intend. The point here is that you should be glad that it’s Israel and not Hamas having the upper hand here. The situation in Gaza is bad, but it’s not even remotely comparable to what would happen if the roles were reversed.
And no, it’s not a war crime to put your enemy under a siege. It only becomes a war crime if the main goal is to hurt civilians. As long your targets are enemy comabats colleteral damage tends to be legal. Yes, that is horrible, but horrible is what war is. And it’s Hamas that started this war.
collateral damage isnt legal by default. That would also be a get out of jail free card then, since all you need is the intend to hit one military target. collateral damage need to be proportional to the military target. and that it isnt here
Of course it’s not “legal by default”. But in Gaza it seems to be more or less proportional. There’s thousands of terrorists among the people killed by the IDF. That’s a lot of military targets and therefore likely makes these actions proportional.
It’s also important to remember that Hamas is causing most of these civilians deaths. If they weren’t committing war crimes like using hospitals for military purposes, there’d be far fewer civilians deaths. You simply can’t blame the side that is forced to fire upon these multi-use targets. Otherwise you’d be rewarding a war crime.
Says the IDF. The same IDF that murders journalists while they wear press vests.
With the same logic you couldnt blame Hamas for shootingtheir rokets like this, because they cant build GPS guided ones.
Of course i can blame and every human rights organisation as well as the UN and experts on international law are doing so
No. That’s indiscriminate bombing which is illegal. You actually have to aim at a military target. Which hamas could btw. There are Israeli bases out in the desert. They chose to aim at cities.
Edit: Also, not saying that “experts on international law” were blaming Israel is nonsense. There’s some that think that Israel is overstepping in somes areas but that’s about it. In this recent conflices Israel appears to be in a grey area (the west bank settlements are another story, they’re clearly illegaly). Only Hamas is clearly committing crimes against humanity. For Israel it’s more a case of pushing the envelope (which I don’t support either, but it’s still not remotely comparable to ignoring international law alltogether). Here’s a summary.
The IDF spokesman said in the beginning of the offense, that the emphasis is on “damage not accuracy”. They are fully admitting to indiscriminate bombing of Gaza. It is ridicilous to try and paint them as the good guys fighting the bad guys.
You should look up what “indiscriminate” means.
it means without differentiation. so when the focus is on damage not accuracy, it is about maximizing the effect without discriminating who is affected, aka indiscriminate.
But there is differentation. I’ve said it countless times, if it there weren’t we’d see death tolls in a completely different magntiude. If there werren’t differentation there’d be no asking the civilians to evacuate or zones that are less likely to be bombed. You can argue that the IDF isn’t differentating enough, but claiming it didn’t just makes you sound silly.