Lawfare: the newest tactic in singling out Israel for harassment.
If anyone has a conscience, one must be adamant about decrying and documenting the hypocrisy of the global community as it holds Israel to different standards while ignoring all the crimes against humanity committed by murderous Islamists within the Palestinian Authority, Hamas, Hezbollah, Iraq, Iran, Syria, Lebanon, Chechnya, and murderous non-Islamist dictators in China, North Korea and Russia.
Via WallStreetJournal:
Last week a Spanish judge decided to pursue an investigation in a case brought by a group of Palestinians accusing Israel of “crimes against humanity” for a 2002 strike against the military leader of Hamas in Gaza.
That strike took place during a year in which waves of suicide bombings rocked Israel’s cities. As a result of the war in Gaza last January, Israel expects to face a slew of similar probes and lawsuits in foreign courts.
The misuse of legal concepts in public discourse is often designed to give one-sided criticism of Israel the appearance of a judicious assessment of international law.
Political philosopher Michael Walzer correctly points out that the term “disproportionate violence” as used by many commentators today “is simply violence they don’t like, or it is violence committed by people they don’t like.”
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Hey, who's the guy with the sword?
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