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The killing of combatants and combatant support personnel without judicial authorization is not in fact a war crime. The term you're looking for here is hors de combat, which was coined specifically to separate out the people who can't be extrajudicially killed during a war.

I don't understand the preceding comment well enough to defend it or to see the racism in it; there is context I am probably missing.



> From the river to the sea what is the only flag you see?

In it’s most favorable interpretation is a call to keep Palestinians subjugated and stripped of political and civil rights. This speech has been used to promote a Jewish ethnostate, which is in fact racist, and in the worst cases this speech is used to advocate for the expulsion of Palestinians from their land.

At best this is an advocacy for a racist policy, at worst this is genocidal speech.

> Well, the IDF is executing lots of war criminals, even future ones in Gaza ;)

I can’t take this any other way then the author is stating that killing of innocent civilians in Gaza is justified because otherwise they were destined to become war criminals.

This kind of speech was very common among people justifying police brutality and neighborhood crackdown against black people in the USA. It is extremely racist as it stipulates that Palestinians, by merit of being Palestinians, are inherently bad people and deserve to die.


There is no jewish ethnostate, Israel is a modern day democracy with Arabs / Muslims elected to the Knesset.

The real question is if everyone loves the peace loving Gazans so much, why has Egypt built a wall to keep the peaceful refugees out?

Perhaps maybe they don't want the Gazans to start a civil war in their country like in Jordan, Lebanon, etc. Realpolitik.


The "kisnet"?


Oh, I didn't see "future" war criminals. Yeah, not good.


Even with judicial authorization, it can still be a war crime.


There is context I am probably missing.

It was the precious reference (backed by a smiley no less) to how the good the current operation is at killing "future" war criminals -- obviously referring to minors. Who are also just as obviously being collectively subject to air strikes for the crime of being you-know-what.

It was a truly disgusting comment, actually. Unfortunately "frank" and deeply revelatory expressions of this sort are by no means unusual in the sphere of public discourse that supports the current operation in Gaza. From the highest levels down.


Yep. Acknowledged.




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