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Purveyor

(29,876 posts)
Sun Jun 14, 2015, 06:17 PM Jun 2015

Israel Defends Gaza Conflict As 'Moral War'

Source: Guardian UK

Report comes days before release of findings of investigation by UN Human Rights Council into possible war crimes by Israel and Hamas

Mairav Zonszein in Tel Aviv
Sunday 14 June 2015 12.23 EDT

Israel has claimed the Israel Defence Forces’ operation in Gaza last summer was a moral, defensive war conducted in accordance with international law.

The publication on Sunday of a report written in conjunction with Israeli government ministries was timed to occur days before the release of the findings of an investigation by the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) into possible war crimes by Israel and Hamas.

The UNHRC report, with which Israel refused to cooperate, is expected to serve as the foundation for the Palestinian case against Israel in the international criminal court, which is due to be submitted on 25 June.

Israel’s report highlights efforts by the IDF to avoid harm to civilians and presents the operation as an “imperative necessity” in response to incessant rocket fire from Gaza and the threat of Hamas infiltrating through its tunnels.

Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/14/israel-defends-gaza-conflict-as-moral-war

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Israel Defends Gaza Conflict As 'Moral War' (Original Post) Purveyor Jun 2015 OP
. peacebird Jun 2015 #1
The UN report is a joke. Archae Jun 2015 #2
Perhaps but the apartheid state of israel isn't. No laughing here. eom Purveyor Jun 2015 #3
Some facts about Israel and Gaza... Archae Jun 2015 #4
Those 'facts' will take you far, indeed! Purveyor Jun 2015 #6
The issue has never been whether Israel or Gaza is the "better" place. Ken Burch Jun 2015 #7
+1 Fearless Jun 2015 #9
+1 too! BlueMTexpat Jun 2015 #14
Here we go again. The IDF is the most "moral" army, like...EVER. Only killed 500 children mowing Fred Sanders Jun 2015 #5
Immoral... they need a copy editor badly. Fearless Jun 2015 #8
"efforts by the IDF to avoid harm to civilians " Jesus Malverde Jun 2015 #10
Unfortunately jimlup Jun 2015 #11
The IDF report IS a joke...nt Jesus Malverde Jun 2015 #12
Yeah jimlup Jun 2015 #16
Shameless bullshit from Netanyahu. So, what's new? Comrade Grumpy Jun 2015 #13
"Moral War' - used by anyone - BlueMTexpat Jun 2015 #15

Archae

(46,330 posts)
2. The UN report is a joke.
Sun Jun 14, 2015, 06:23 PM
Jun 2015

They refused to mention Hamas and other jihadist groups using schools and hospitals to launch attacks, and all those terrorist rockets.

It's always "The Palestinians can do no wrong."

Archae

(46,330 posts)
4. Some facts about Israel and Gaza...
Sun Jun 14, 2015, 06:37 PM
Jun 2015

Israel just had a gay pride parade.
In Gaza, being gay is against the law.

Palestinian media still calls all Jews "pigs" that should be "driven into the sea." And applauds terrorists like the two who attacked a synagogue.
Israeli media has no anti-Palestinian propaganda anywhere near like that.

Hamas is a dictatorship, the way the Arafat ran the PLO.
Corrupt and brutal, dissenters are lynched.

 

Ken Burch

(50,254 posts)
7. The issue has never been whether Israel or Gaza is the "better" place.
Sun Jun 14, 2015, 09:30 PM
Jun 2015

Israel and Gaza aren't in a "coolest country" competition.

And Israel isn't attacking Gaza in the name of social liberalism or the fight against bigotry.

Israel is attacking Gaza because the Israeli government wants to make sure a Palestinian state never happens and that the status quo in Gaza and the West Bank never ever changes.

Nobody here is saying that Hamas is run by saints. At most, it's been said that, for the war to end, Hamas has to be included in the negotiations, because it can't be "crushed" or made to go away, and because even if it were possible, crushing Hamas could only lead to something worse replacing it, and because excluding Hamas from any negotiating process would mean they'd just go on fighting, making any "agreement" with anyone else utterly worthless.

You have to get "buy-in" from everybody who has guns if you want the guns to stop firing.

Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)
5. Here we go again. The IDF is the most "moral" army, like...EVER. Only killed 500 children mowing
Sun Jun 14, 2015, 06:43 PM
Jun 2015

the lawn, this time around.

Shooting the messenger, any messenger, not towing the official line, is a time honored Israeli government and media tradition.

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