https://www.unz.com/jcook/lawless-in...sraels-crimes/

“Collective punishment

Which brings us to the second purpose served by Gaza.

As Western states have grown increasingly unnerved by signs of popular unrest at home, they have started to think more carefully about how to sidestep the restrictions placed on them by international law.

The term refers to a body of laws that were formalised in the aftermath of the second world war, when both sides treated civilians on the other side of the battle lines as little more than pawns on a chessboard.

The aim of those drafting international law was to make it unconscionable for there to be a repeat of Nazi atrocities in Europe, as well as other crimes such as Britain’s fire bombing of German cities like Dresden or the United States’ dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

One of the fundamentals of international law – at the heart of the Geneva Conventions – is a prohibition on collective punishment: that is, retaliating against the enemy’s civilian population, making them pay the price for the acts of their leaders and armies.

Very obviously, Gaza is about as flagrant a violation of this prohibition as can be found. Even in “quiet” times, its inhabitants – one million of them children – are denied the most basic freedoms, such as the right to movement; access to proper health care because medicines and equipment cannot be brought in; access to drinkable water; and the use of electricity for much of the day because Israel keeps bombing Gaza’s power station.

Israel has never made any bones of the fact that it is punishing the people of Gaza for being ruled by Hamas, which rejects Israel’s right to have dispossessed the Palestinians of their homeland in 1948 and imprisoned them in overcrowded ghettos like Gaza.

What Israel is doing to Gaza is the very definition of collective punishment. It is a war crime: 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 52 weeks of every year, for 16 years.

And yet no one in the so-called international community seems to have noticed.”

Lose numerous wars of Annihilation, cry victim for decades afterwards......

Call for destruction of Israel, cry when Israel doesn't allow it

You didn't read the article and you are repeating zionist and western propaganda. In reality there is nothing true about it. The amount of manipulation involved militarily, politically, and through media over the decades is astonishing.

You didn't read the article and you are repeating zionist and western propaganda. In reality there is nothing true about it. The amount of manipulation involved militarily, politically, and through media over the decades is astonishing.

Good article and it reminds me to check unz report. I haven't been on there for a while.

Sure, 1948, 67, and 73 says differently.

The zionists attacked in each instance. Mossad brags amount infiltration and western manipulation was rampant in those arab regimes. Cmon shabbos **** you can do better than generic propaganda court history.

I think you seriously need to open up a history book, for once in your life.