P F Tinmore, et al,
In the early 1990's, the Israelis and the Palestinians made repeated attempts at negotiating a peace. The
Palestinian-Israeli Security Implementation Work Plan established a working framework for both parties (Arab - Israeli) to reduce the violence and negotiate peace. During 2000 and early 2001, intensive talks concerning final status issues, including water rights, refugees, settlers, the status of Jerusalem, and border and security issues.
However they failed to reach an agreement.
aris2chat, et al,
The right to kill Americans is not just idle language. Palestinians are always claiming some right.
They don't have a right to kill americans
(COMMENT)
In an article
published July 16, 2013, a Senior Hamas Official, Dr 'Issam Adwan, former Minister of Palestinian Refugee Affairs, stated that the Islamic Resistance Movement (HAMAS) Is
Entitled To Attack:
- Israel's Embassies,
- Israeli Interests,
- Israeli Officials Worldwide –
- The Interests of Israeli Allies, supporting the US
They glorify the Jihadist and Fedayeen that engage and kill civilian non-combatants.
Most Respectfully,
R
How is that different from Israel?
(COMMENT)
The Israelis do not have a policy on the opened continuation of the Occupation; or a policy on the targeting of Arab-Palestinian civilians. Nor do the Israelis have an equivalent formal program promoting Jihad and Armed Struggle in the same way the Hostile Arab Palestinians do.
The Israelis operate a security containment program and antiterrorism operations that prevents
(to the extent possible) Hostile Arab Palestinians (Jihadist, Fedayeen, terrorists, and insurgents) from conducting operations against the unarmed civilians. During the year 2000, terrorist organizations such as the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), Hizbollah, Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PLFP), among others, conducted operations in Israel. Nearly 226 terror attacks, including suicide bombings, drive-by shootings, rocket & mortar attacks, the detonation of improvised explosive devices, and stabbings occurred in the West Bank, Gaza Strip, and Israeli sovereignty. Also during the year, more than 469 Israelis were killed and over 2,498 injured, a sharp increase from the previous year.
Israeli eventually responds to Hostile Arab Palestinian (HoAP) Aggression (the use of armed force by a State against the sovereignty, territorial integrity or political independence of another State). Prior to the initiation of Operation Protective Edge, the HoAP launched over 4000 rockets and mortars into Israeli Sovereignty and conducted several infiltrations by tunnel across the border into Israel.
Israel has the obligation to protects its citizens.
Nothing in the present Charter shall impair the inherent right of individual or collective selfdefense if an armed attack occurs against a Member of the United Nations (
Chapter VII, Article 51 UN Charter)
Protected persons who commit an offence which is solely intended to harm the Occupying Power, but which does not constitute an attempt on the life or limb of members of the occupying forces or administration, nor a grave collective danger, nor seriously damage the property of the occupying forces or administration or the installations used by them, shall be liable to internment or simple imprisonment, ---
The penal provisions promulgated by the Occupying Power in accordance with Articles 64 and 65 may impose the death penalty on a protected person only in cases where the person is guilty of espionage, of serious acts of sabotage against the military installations of the Occupying Power or of intentional offences which have caused the death of one or more persons, provided that such offences were punishable by death under the law of the occupied territory in force before the occupation began. (
Article 68, Geneva Convention)
The civilian population as such, as well as individual civilians, shall not be the object of attack. Acts or threats of violence the primary purpose of which is to spread terror among the civilian population are prohibited. Israel will conduct such countermeasure operations against HoAPs that violate this provision. (
Article 51, Protocol 1, Geneva Convention)
Israel gives effective advance warning of attacks which may affect the civilian population, where circumstances do not permit. (
Rule 20, Customary IHL)
Israel Launches attacks which would are considered adequate to engage and neutralize the target; with each target having resulting in a concrete and direct military advantage afterwards. (
Rule 14, Customary IHL)
Israel does not practice a policy of using human shields, or launching attacks from populated civilian areas, near hospitals, or UN shelters and schools. (
Rule 97, Customary IHL)
These are but a few differences in the way Israel does business. Yes, there are a number of differences in the way the HoAP conduct operations --- and that of Israel.
Most Respectfully,
R