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[–] JayDee@lemmy.sdf.org 61 points 3 days ago (5 children)

It's not war crimes because it isn't war. It's the slaughter and starvation of a civilian population. It's genocide.

[–] nun@lemm.ee 31 points 3 days ago

The law of war governs conduct during armed conflict, regardless of whether or not a formal declaration of war exists or how disproportionate said conflict is

[–] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 12 points 3 days ago

Crimes against humanity then

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 6 points 3 days ago

It's all of them!

[–] refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

It's a war like how Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, the Banana Wars, etc. were wars.

[–] LordWiggle@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

They did declare war on hamas though

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 45 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

It's one thing to bomb people. Excuse me, I mean "call for air strikes".

It's quite another to force starvation on a population of people.

100% war crimes, and it's not even a matter of opinion at this point. It's fact.

[–] andrewrgross@slrpnk.net 25 points 3 days ago

Thank you so much for sharing this, because I really wanted to read it, but Haaretz is paywalled.

It's bittersweet. Obviously, Ehud Olmer remains far to my right. He is still a defender of most of the barbarism of Zionism. But I appreciate the moral honesty that brings him to fundamentally recognize and say what many people in both the US and Israel-Palestine have been locked up without due process for saying.

[–] psycho_driver@lemmy.world 28 points 3 days ago

It's committing genocide the likes of which hasn't been seen since Nazi Germany.

[–] TheObviousSolution@lemm.ee 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Clearly the former Israeli PM must be a false / self-hating Jew. /s

[–] LordWiggle@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

What an antisemitic /s

[–] markko@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago