Thread by @Doc_0

Funny how the people who claim to be Twitter war crimes experts and huff about MUH GENEVA CONVENTIONS when criticizing Israel have absolutely nothing to say about the Palestinians firing low-accuracy rockets at civilian targets - and they've been doing that for a long time.

Those Palestinian rocket barrages make no pretense whatsoever of addressing military targets. They're just random attempts to murder civilians. They just roll the dice and hope they hit a school. Terrorists steal humanitarian money and supplies to build and fuel those rockets.

And it doesn't register on the MUH WAR CRIMES crowd's radar screen at all. It's the tree falling in a forest and making no sound. They don't care about it at all, not even in a tit-for-tat way. The bar is set so low for Palestinian terrorism that rocket swarms don't count.

For some Hamas supporters, it's back to their dimwitted "oppression" calculations - the oppressed Palestinians can do no wrong, their every act of "resistance" is justified, and if it's uncomfortably heinous, then it's all the fault of the oppressors for forcing them to do it.

For the anti-civilization brigade - and there are absolutely organized groups in the Western world whose goal is the destruction of civilization itself - it's just an Alinsky tactic, holding the civilized and productive Israelis to a standard completely waived for their enemies.

The truth is that those Palestinian rocket barrages are EXACTLY the kind of war crime the Geneva Conventions were written to prevent. The last thing the postwar powers wanted was to legitimize the use of human shields or constant murder strikes against civilians.

Is there really anyone stupid enough to think nations emerging from the horrors of WW1 and WW2 decided to write up laws that would blame legitimate military forces for the death of human shields used by unlawful paramilitary forces?

Is there really anyone stupid enough to think the postwar world thought it would be a great idea to reward those who build their ammo dumps and command centers beneath hospitals and schools, effectively rendering them invincible?

Do you really think the survivors of WW2 thought it would be a great idea to rationalize terrorist tactics from people convinced they have legitimate historic grievances? You think the world of 1949 was unfamiliar with that rationalization for mass murder and inhuman horror?

The point of formulating laws of war was not to give savages and barbarians an unbeatable advantage over civilized adversaries who must always fight with their hands tied. The goal was the OPPOSITE of that - to make terrorism and unlawful tactics too costly to contemplate.

Half a century on, we've slipped into a politicized daze and shrug as the "oppressed" pull the rocket equivalent of a drive-by shooting over and over again. "Just give them what they want and maybe they'll stop" is not the response envisioned by the Geneva Conventions. /end