On appeasement: It is quite simple. Feeding wild animals does not make them friendly, it makes them stronger. Howard Newman

למדינה פלסטינית מפורזת, לעולם לא יסכימו הפלסטינים, למדינה פלסטינית מזויינת, לעולם לא תסכים ישראל!  אהוד בן עזר

There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true - Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard 1813-1855








EXPLAINING GENOCIDE

By MOSHE ROSENBLATT

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            Suddenly, after Israel's attack against Hamas in Gaza, thousands and thousands of antisemitic Muslims, and non-Muslims' useful idiots in America and Europe, began to shout that Israel is committing genocide.

            Probably, 99.99% of them have absolutely no knowledge on the issue. They do not know when genocide is perpetrated during a war.

            So, let's put some light on this topic.

             The Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (CPPCG), or the Genocide Convention, is an international treaty that criminalizes genocide and obligates state parties to pursue the enforcement of its prohibition. It was the first legal instrument to codify genocide as a crime, and the first human rights treaty unanimously adopted by the United Nations General Assembly, on 9 December 1948, during the third session of the United Nations General Assembly. The Convention entered into force on 12 January 1951 and has 152 state parties as of 2022.

The Genocide Convention was conceived largely in response to World War II, which saw atrocities such as the Holocaust that lacked an adequate description or legal definition.

 

Definition of genocide

Article 2 of the Convention defines genocide as any of the following acts committed with intent to destroyin whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group, as such (Article 2):

(a) Killing members of the group;

(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;

(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;

(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;

(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

Article 3 defines the crimes that can be punished under the convention:

(a) Genocide;

(b) Conspiracy to commit genocide;

(c) Direct and public incitement to commit genocide;

(d) Attempt to commit genocide;

(e) Complicity in genocide.

 

So, according to the above definitions, all the wars inflicted on Israel by arab countries and/or terrorist's organizations, were in fact, genocidal wars in which they tried to eliminate the Jewish State and kill as many Jews as they could. And this includes, of course, the attack Hamas perpetrated against Israel on October 7th 2023. A savage attack of unspeakable cruelty.

All those anti-Semites who are chanting "From the (Jordan) river to the (Mediterranean) sea, Palestine will be free", are perpetrating a genocidal crime of "Direct and public incitement to commit genocide", according to article 3 of The Genocide Convention, because the meaning of this phrase, as everyone knows, is the elimination of the State of Israel and the killing of all the Jews inside it.

I hope that "Incitement to commit genocide" is not included in America's 1st Amendment's Freedom of Speech.

Because, if it is, America is committing a genocidal crime as well. The crime of complicity with the genocidal crime of incitement to commit genocide!!!

 

And now, while Israel's army is fighting these savages, many people is saying Israel is commiting genocide. Is it?

The Geneva Convention requires combatants of all sides in an armed conflict to wear uniforms and to build military bases away from civilian centers. That is so that the opposing side will be able to distinguish between a combatant and a civilian in battle. But what is to be done when one side (in this case, the Hamas) decides to disregard international law and fight from within population centers, while wearing civilian clothes?


            Well, enter any internet search engine and look for “The Fourth Geneva Convention” Part III Section I, Articles 28-29:
“CONVENTION (IV) RELATIVE TO THE PROTECTION OF CIVILIAN PERSONS IN TIME OF WAR. “Signed at Geneva, 12 August 1949
             “PART III
“Status and Treatment of Protected Persons
“Section I. Provisions common to the Territories of the Parties to the Conflict and to Occupied Territories”

“Art. 28. The presence of a protected person may not be used to render certain points or areas immune from military operations.

“Art. 29. The Party to the conflict in whose hands protected persons may be, is responsible for the treatment accorded to them by its agents, irrespective of any individual responsibility which may be incurred.”

In the case of combatants who take refuge within a civilian population, Article 28 stresses to them that the fact that they are hiding amidst civilians does not make their location immune to attack by the other side. Article 29 goes even further and declares that if civilians are in fact struck down, the fault for their deaths lies not with the attacker, but with the side hiding among them.

In other words, the responsibility for the deaths of Palestinian civilians falls not on Israel’s shoulders, but on the shoulders of the terrorist organizations. At the same time, the government of Israel does have a legal obligation to protect the residents of the state of Israel.
 
The Geneva Convention does not determine whether a one-ton bomb or a 250 kilogram bomb is to be used; that is a purely military decision. If we believe that in order to eliminate a planner / facilitator / practitioner of terrorist attacks upon us we need to use a one-ton bomb, the calculation of the number of collateral casualties is not for us to make, as the responsibility for their deaths does not fall upon us, but upon he who elected to hide among civilians.

This is particularly true when we know that the vast majority of the potential collateral casualties are not “innocent civilians”, but rather civilians who provide the terrorists with support out of absolute identification with them.

Since the beginning, when they go to a kindergarten, children in Gaza are taught to hate Jews and become jihadists. This "education" goes on during all their lives, in madrasas and mosques. So, there are indeed civilians in Gaza but there are not "innocent civilians". 


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