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On Mon, 13 Oct 2025 12:15:41 +0200, "Carlos E.R."
<robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:

The destruction of hospitals and murdering of journalists can not be >justified. Nor the killing by famine, this is a war crime. No matter if
your enemy is evil.

Working backwards, "so all sieges are a war crime?" (I don't recall
any Germans being executed for the 900 day siege of Leningrad - which
killed over a milion mostly by exposure and starvation) As for evil
I'd argue both Hitler and Stalin were extremely evil and we can debate
on which was worse. (No thanks) If you go strictly by deliberate
killings to score the "who's the greatest victor" in the killings
department and Mao was worse than both combined - even if you include
Tojo's scorecard.

Scenario 1: If I bomb a wheat field am I committing a war crime? How
about if I mine the wheat field or simply drive tanks across one?
(Hint: there were LOTS of farmers' fields in Normandy in the summer of
1944 - some of them were driven through by tanks, others were bombed
by US, British and Canadian bombers)

Scenario 2: If I put weaponry and military headquarters inside a
hospital have I created a target? (Because if the hospital is now a
military headquarters, haven't I just given the HQ the ultimate
defence? Or have I just exposed all the patients to deadly harm?
Because logically it has to be one or the other)

Scenario 3: And lastly hasn't any military commander who does that
exposed himself to hanging in a war crimes trial - for deliberately
endangering civilians? (Assuming of course the other side can grab
him)

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On Mon, 13 Oct 2025 12:18:06 +0200, "Carlos E.R."
<robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:

On 2025-10-13 06:25, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

On 12/10/2025 22:24, Chris wrote:

And the UN bases
its judgement on what HAMAS tells it.

That's clearly a lie.

The point is that there are no independent witnesses in Gaza. Only Hamas

That's the fault of Israel, who prohibits foreign news media from
entering, and if they do, they risk being murdered by tank or shell or
air bomb.

When has Israel welcomed journalists into live fire areas? Afterwards
sure (though they seldom take reporters into areas with uncleared
mines)
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On Mon, 13 Oct 2025 11:29:26 +0100, The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:

That's the fault of Israel, who prohibits foreign news media from
entering, and if they do, they risk being murdered by tank or shell or
air bomb.

Or by Hamas.

In fairness, when foreign news media are escorted into dangerous areas
by the IDF the danger doesn't come from Israeli weaponry....
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On Mon, 13 Oct 2025 21:26:34 +0200, "Carlos E.R."
<robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:

The IRA were the same back in the day. Shoot at the British Army from
behind a crowd and hope the Army shoots back.

They were also a terrorist organisation. Your point?

And the British didn't retaliate by bombing the entire city to a rubble.

Terrorism is fought with police, not military.

I've touched the "Peace Wall" between the Falls and Shankill Roads in
Belfast. The British DIDN'T level all of West Belfast. (Admittedly I
did that in 2016 well after the shooting stopped but the folks whose
homes were adjacent to the wall on both sides still have chain link
fencing over their back yards at about a 20 degree angle downwards
leading away from their homes (so that any grenades or shells would
tend to roll away from the house) Now that's 20+ years after the
ceasefire in Northern Ireland and the fact that the overhead backyard
chain link fencing still existed more than 20 years later should tell
you that the locals still feared a resumption of fighting.)
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