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Originally Posted by willravel
There is no difference. We (the USA) knowingly fund a country continuing to brake the Fourth Geneva Convention. There are about 150 substantive articles of the Fourth Geneva Convention that protect the rights of every Palestinian living in occupied Palestine. The government of Israel has violated and still violates every single one of these rights. What do you call the breaking of international laws from the Geneva Convention of 1949? War crimes. As a matter of fact, the UN Human Rights Commission has very clearly said that Israel has commited and is continuing to commit war crimes against the Palestinian people.
I hope you don't support the willful killing of Palestinian civilians by the Israeli army and Israel's illegal paramilitary settlers. Our government clearly does. Sadam financially supported terror, and we financially support war crimes. There is no difference.
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It's not that I'm down with the "willful killing" of palestinian citizens, it's truly unfortuante. I am however in favor of a sovereign nation doing it's duty of protecting it's citizens and it's country. THe Palestinians are not without blame in their plight, acts of terrorism do not bring legitimacy to their cause. I'm not familiar with the Geneva ccords you are citing, but if I remember Geneva accords were to protect military personal(sp); the status afforded under Geneva doesn't apply to citizens, they have protection under different treaties and accords. I could be wrong on that. On the flip the only way to deal with guerilla terrorist factions is strong arm tactics, and as it goes they seem to be working, attacks having seemingly halted in Israel. Hopefully that is a sign that Abbas is doing with that worthless fuck Arafat couldn't and wouldn't.