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https://twitter.com/ori_goldberg/status/1780615638517469674This is a very famous video in Peru, taken in the aftermath of the 1992 Tarata bombing that killed 25 people and injured 250 (inc. friends of mine). A man standing outside the burning ruins of Tarata tower says “those SoBs need to be killed, exterminated”
https://twitter.com/HenMazzig/status/1776334988922790136The 2 main arguments made here are 1) that "90% of casualties in modern war are civilians", so Israel is "below average", and 2) that Israel actually takes "unprecedented steps" to prevent civilian casualties. Let's look at each through the prism of the applicable law
https://twitter.com/haaretzcom/status/1775155012856913965For starters, the presence of an armed man is not enough, considering aid convoys (and @PalestineRCS ambulances, might I add) need security when they operate in a war zone. Israel needs to identify the presence of a member of Hamas or someone directly participating in hostilities
https://twitter.com/marty_morantz/status/1769142282094075963In February 1948, a couple of months after the adoption of the UN Partition Plan, Jewish and Arab militias were embroiled in an ongoing armed conflict over the future of Palestine. At the centre of hostilities, was the issue of Jerusalem
https://twitter.com/AccJurist/status/1764955939562750078But this is problematic. These terms are not incantations that can qualify/sanitise entire conflicts in normative/moral terms. It is entirely possible to commit illegal/immoral atrocities in a war of resistance / of self-defence - think Dresden in WWII. War is inherently inhumane
https://twitter.com/eylonalevy/status/17580378459424195283. The screenshot is cut, leaving out crucial information about what counts as a hostile act and why it is normally extremely difficult to argue that a medical unit has lost its protection.
https://twitter.com/naftalibennett/status/1753344663862276389Take my country, Peru, eg. Our “Bin Laden” was found in a residential neighbourhood in Lima in 1992. It was an armed conflict, yes. But sending a MIG-29 to bomb a house down wasn’t really an option for reasons that should be obvious in both Peru and Gaza…
https://twitter.com/Alonso_GD/status/1740807788719157697
https://twitter.com/eylonalevy/status/1748291643554386342Claiming that Zionism is anticolonial because it allowed a “minority” to create a “nation-state” for said group, to the exclusion of other groups who now themselves become “minorities” is completely misrepresenting anticolonial thought /2
https://x.com/Alonso_GD/status/1724839406295519464?s=20
https://twitter.com/Alonso_GD/status/1745375717469134963Israel: "is singularly aware why the genocide convention was adopted". "For some, 'never again' is a slogan, for Israel is the highest moral obligation". South Africa has invoked genocide in a war where Israel is defending itself against Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad