> Israel is completely without fault. If someone fires on you from a > village, they themselves have endangered the people of the village. > If innocents die, they were killed by the actions of those who hid > among them, not by those who retaliated. >
No. One crime does not excuse another. This is international law. If innocents die, they were killed by the actions of those who hid among them, AND BY those who retaliated. Under no circumstances can an army legally retaliate against children in their homes. No matter how bad you allege the enemy to be, it cannot excuse your own atrocities. Oddly enough, this is exactly what Saddam Hussein is on trial for now. Some people from a village did try to assassinate him. The prosecution says that he punished the whole village. The defense testimony says that everyone was given a legal trial and found guilty. Maybe anybody who did not want to take part had already left. It reminds me of Waco. Harland Harrison Libertarian Party of San Mateo County CA > > > --- In [email protected], Harland Harrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> >>> Wrong as usual. Israel responded to missiles fired upon them by >>> Hezbollah which were fired from residential neighborhoods. Anyone who >>> dies due to this retaliation was endangered and harmed by Hezbollah, >>> not Israel. >>> >> >> Not exactly. Guilt by one party would not excuse guilt by another. Just >> because a rocket may have came out of an area does not give Israel > any right >> to punish a village in that area later. Nobody gets a free pass to > murder >> children. The only way the Israeli response could be lawful, would > be if the >> Israeli military had reason to believe that Hezbollah soldiers, with > more >> rockets, were inside the homes which the Israelis blew up, at the > time when >> the Israelis blew them up. >> >> Harland Harrison >> Libertarian Party of San Mateo County CA >> >>> >>> >>> --- In [email protected], "jewish_from_brooklyn" >>> <jewish_from_brooklyn@> wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> QANA, Lebanon - Israeli missiles crushed several buildings where >>>> Lebanese villagers were sleeping Sunday, killing at least 56 people, >>>> more than half of them children, in the deadliest attack of the >>>> campaign against Hezbollah. >>>> >>>> http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060730/ap_on_re_mi_ea/lebanon_israel >>>> >>> >> > ForumWebSiteAt http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Libertarian Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Libertarian/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
