Not always. Being a military target is one requirement. Any attacker retains the obligation to protect civilian non-combatants.
Referring to reckless manslaughter as mere "collateral damage" is unconscionable.
I'll accept that answer, noting your attempt to play word games. Can we both agree that reckless warfare does not measure up to "taking necessary precautions"?
Buildings don't fire upon anyone. Please dispense with the word games. If an enemy combatant is firing at the IDF from a particular building then, no, the IDF does not have blanket approval to destroy that building and all civilian occupants.
You are totally uninformed about warfare. Your position is grotesque. You need to learn that countries get to choose whether or not they got war, but they don't get to choose how they wage war if they don't want their leaders and military members hanging afterwards.
Correct. The IDF does not need to wait to be fired upon to eliminate an enemy combatant, if they are using rifles or other individual direct-fire weapons. They don't get to use the opportunity to take out as many Arabs as they can with military ordnance that destroys a high rise apartment building or a city block. The former is legal and responsible while the latter will put them on the wrong end of a noose.
Let's qualify this. If an IDF soldier is being fired upon by some Al Qassam militant, and the soldier only has a flame thrower, then the soldier is free to turn the militant to ash, i.e. he is not harming any other people. Similarly, if a militant is stupid enough to open fire upon an entire IDF battalion, the entire battalion can unload their magazines into him and they are good. Key point: no children noncombatants were harmed in the liquefication of the militant's corpse. If, however, the battalion is in the process of emptying their magazines and some children appear in the target area, the IDF would need to cease fire ... even if they are Arab children.
Nope. With rifles, yes, directed at the enemy. They don't get to destroy the building without evacuating the civilians. They have to protect civilian noncombatants and engage in warfare legally.
You are greatly mistaken.
This is, in fact, what they are doing. They don't ever confirm the rumors they hear of Hamas being in a building. They simply take out the building ... and then they check to see if the rumor was true. If not, oh well.
Nope. They can blow the fuck out of it once they have confirmed that they have a military target inside (no civilian building is a military target; the human enemy is the target) and have evacuated the noncombatants. Until then, they can't blow the building.
They can't destroy the building. They need to 1. ensure they have an enemy trapped in the building and 2. evacuate the civilian noncombatants. The IDF feud with Hamas is no justification to kill civilian noncombatants. It doesn't matter that Israel "declared war." They can declare snow to be purple, it doesn't matter. They don't have any license to kill noncombatants.
Once the IDF has evacuated all the noncombatants, they can destroy whatever they wish ... but they need to compensate the owners, of course.
Evacuating noncombatants is required.
Incorrect. I don't foresee the IDF "losing" ... yet their war crimes should still be investigated and tried where warranted.
So what part don't you get?
It doesn't have to be "systematic" and yes, Israel is killing the Arab Semites of Gaza at a rate of about 1,000 per week (tens to hundreds per day). "Genocide" is the right word.
The "war" was a unilateral declaration by Israel, i.e. the country perpetrating the genocide. Israel invaded Gaza under the pretense of avenging the Ayatollah's attack on Israel, but their true motive is to commit genocide on civilian Arab Semite noncombatants in Gaza. If Israel had instead opted to wait for those noncombatants to attack Israel in order to have a valid reason for invading Gaza, Israel might as well wait for the cows to come home.
Israel was chomping at the bit to eradicate the Arab plague NOW and thus seized upon Iran's attack on the music festival as their excuse to exterminate the Arabs. As such,
Team Israel must deny outright any involvement from Iran lest their vile racism be exposed to the light of day.
I do not. I know the difference, but I don't feel confident that you do.
You implied it, and continue to imply it. I can compile an almanac of material from your posts that reveal your belief that the IDF can 1. unilaterally declare a building/structure to be a military target which 2. immediately grants license to destroy that structure and everybody in it and 3. all those innocent noncombatants who die totally deserve whatever happens to them.
If your position isn't the most fucked-up, heartless and inhumane position on JPP, I don't know what is. What the IDF does many times every day constitutes illegal war crimes everywhere. You, nonetheless, excuse them all because of your special pleading fallacy for Israel.
Warfare requires combatants to protect noncombatants. Recklessly firing munitions into civilian population centers is illegal for everyone, including for Israelis.
You have finally realized that your position is crap and now you are making up shit and hurling insults as a smokescreen. I see that you think that hurling the "antisemitic" slur is some sort of trump card. Your claim that I am taking sides is absurd. You are desperate. You know that your abhorrent antisemitic racism has been exposed and you hope you can stem it by preemptively throwing your adjectives at me. It's too late. My position is nothing more than a demand for accountability and a call for investigations where warranted. Your position is to cheer on genocide and to sweep it under the rug.
The final act of the desperate is to assign bogus positions so that they have something to attack when they otherwise wouldn't have anything. When I chime in to state that I never confuse military and law enforcement functions, what are you going to do?
The military has to protect all noncombatants. Active military firing qualifications include "civilians" among the targets that the shooter must avoid or they don't qualify (or otherwise lose lots of points and risk not qualifying). All military are required to take
Law of Armed Conflict training annually which spells all this out completely, including reporting requirements if any of it is ever observed. Ask me how I know that you have never taken this training.
Notice how you feel compelled to avoid the topic of military responsibility in warfare. You wouldn't know what that even is if you were asked.
You have no clue on the topic. You have gotten everything wrong that is in all predeployment training. You firmly believe that egregious war crimes are totally acceptable. You have a Hollywood perspective on warfare.
I don't support anybody. I strongly call for accountability. You obviously can't read English for comprehension.
Like I said, you don't know the difference between military and law enforcement functions. As such, you don't recognize all that they have in common. Are you aware that they both fire weapons? Are you aware that they both wear uniforms? Yet they have clear-cut differences ... and you don't know what those are.
Do you know what is happening in this picture? Do you know what obligations have been incurred by the captors? Feel free to answer that you have no idea.
All militaries are required to wage war legally.
You are antisemitic.
That doesn't cut it. Gaza is densely populated and the IDF has to assume that all civilian population centers contain civilian noncombatants. The IDF need to actively ensure the noncombatants are moved out of harms way. The IDF need to protect the civilian noncombatants. If that becomes somewhat of an inconvenience ... well, too bad. The IDF has legal obligations in warfare.
If every person on the planet dies in a nuclear holocaust, Hamas ceases to exist, yes.
I don't find nuclear holocaust any more acceptable that Arab Semite genocide. It's fine if Israel wants to kill Al Qassam militants but Israel needs to stop at the killing of the militants. Israel doesn't get to kill additional people as an added bonus, and they don't get to wipe out the Arab population of Gaza as any sort of grand prize.
