Insane, but this is how the IDF operates
On Twitter, Jennifer Rubin posted a link to this New York Times editorial, and commented, "should a court decide every time a soldier aims his rifle on the battlefield? obvious but NTY eds are insane.Jennifer may have been surprised when I tweeted back that this is precisely how the IDF operates. No, we don't have a secret court to which the IDF turns before it decides to target a terrorist. But the government is involved in any decision to target a terrorist (certain targets must be approved by the Prime Minister - if the criteria are public I'm not aware of them).
In December 2006, the Supreme Court severely restricted the IDF's ability to execute targeted killings. In essence, it decided that terrorists hiding among civilians are civilians and not combatants. The court established four primary criteria that must be met in order for a targeted killing to be justified.
First, "well based, strong and convincing information" regarding the individual's terrorist activities.But in the IDF it's worse than that. Because of the false Jenin 'massacre' accusations and because of the Salah Shehadeh (pictured above) incident in which a Hamas terrorist surrounded himself with civilians, unbeknown to the IDF, and fourteen of them were killed with him, the IDF is now overlawyered. Not only do lawyers participate in every discussion of a targeted killing, but the IDF now assigns lawyers to the field. That's right, lawyers accompany IDF soldiers in the field in a bid to protect them from Richard Goldstone and his successors.
Second, "a civilian taking a direct part in hostilities cannot be attacked if a less harmful means can be employed."
Third, an independent, thorough investigation must be conducted after the attack to determine "the precision of the identification of the target and the circumstances of the [targeted killing]."
Fourth, every effort must be made to minimize harm to innocent civilians, and "harm to innocent civilians caused during military attacks (collateral damage) must be proportional."
The court also ruled that, since a targeted killing is essentially an attack on a civilian that is engaged in hostile activities, the attack is only justified if carried out against a civilian currently involved in terrorism. Therefore the IDF cannot target former terror operatives who have distanced themselves from terror activity.
Labels: Goldstone Report, IDF, Salah Shehadeh, targeted killings
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 5:26 PM
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Well, we're on a spiral where no matter what anybody does, other than lying down on the ground and accepting their death as fate, it's going to be against these leftists' rules. And of course, if it even crosses their minds, these people are willing to have them and their families wiped out in order to be nice. Not to be a bother. Or maybe they are figuring they know the right people and are in the right "in" group to keep themselves and theirs safe and happy.
So, wouldn't you think these government types would be glad to have a passive way of stopping a death machine? But no...
http://thebulletin.org/web-edition/op-eds/stuxnet-the-worlds-problem
I read that the Stuxnet caused a warbling in the centrifuges, reducing or preventing production, but these guys have recharacterized it:
"...Stuxnet's embrace and destruction of computer codes can suddenly cause centrifuges to blow apart. That effect, as recently detected on computers in Iran's Natanz nuclear facility and Bushehr nuclear power plant, has terrifying implications for any country..."
Blow apart? Terrifying implications? Who are these government people and why are they on our opponents side no matter what?
Israel has allowed the world and its own leftist Supreme Court to handcuff it in the war on the terror. Its amazing in the light of such restrictions that ANY terrorists are actually killed!
What could could go wrong indeed
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