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Originally Posted by OLD BOY

Well said, Pierre, but don’t expect the anti-Jewish guys to understand that. If this was the other way around, those same people would not be making these contorted arguments.

It’s always the same. Israel is attacked mercilessly with a constant stream of rockets and other terrorist acts, and when Israel responds, it is they who are condemned.

I’m afraid that logic goes out of the window where Israel and Palestine is discussed.

I've not seen any anti-semitic posts in this thread nor have I thought for even a second that the moderators would permit it. Criticism of some of Israel's actions is not the same thing. Indeed, some notable Jewish lawyers recently wrote an open letter raising their concerns about Israel's actions in Gaza. You wouldn't describe them as anti-Jewish, would you?

A former president of the UK’s Supreme Court and seven other eminent lawyers have urged Israel to remember its obligations under international law, saying they had “significant concern” about aspects of its actions in Gaza.

The leading legal figures, including Lord David Neuberger, president of the UK’s highest court in 2012-17, and Philippe Sands KC, said they were speaking both as Jews and as lawyers.

In a letter to the Financial Times, they wrote that, though the “vile crimes perpetrated by Hamas in Israel have shaken us to our core”, the laws of war “apply irrespective of the level of outrageous conduct of an enemy”.

They noted that Gaza was home to 2mn people, almost half of whom are children: “It would be a grave violation of international law to hold them under siege and whilst doing so deprive them of basic necessities such as food and water.”

The lawyers added that “collective punishment is prohibited by the laws of war”.

They further warned that it was unlawful to intentionally cause “indiscriminate damage” and said “politicians and commanders” should not use language that implies the laws of war can be disregarded or “whose effect is to dehumanise a civilian population”.

https://www.ft.com/content/dab1c9ff-...b-43aea6382471