Reply #36: That's what I've been saying, and it's a war-crime...

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I don't think you understand that just because the IDF claims something, it doesn't make it fact. The IDF has a tendency to play fast and loose with the truth, and I've yet to hear an explanation from anyone as to why we should all blindly believe what the IDF says, especially when it comes to its habit of throwing the term 'terrorist' around in order to excuse itself. It doesn't, and as I've already pointed out, the destruction of civilian infrastructure is a war-crime and there's no exceptions made for Israel. That just makes a mockery of laws created with the intention of protecting civilians and civilian infrastructre, and I'm not sure how anyone who tries to use the argument you have could believe that the US hasn't committed war crimes in Iraq with the way it destroyed civilian infrastructure, or that Russia hasn't done the same in Chechnya...

Sorry, but even if I believed that the very valid claims that Israel has committed war-crimes were to be 'shit', how does that then translate into Israel's conduct during OCL being lawful? That's a massive call and seems to be motivated by a desperation to believe that Israel hasn't done anything wrong...