JoeB131, et al,
I can certainly understand why you might think that...
Twenty minutes ago, Armon Hanatziv neighborhood, Jerusalem.
A truck collides with passarsby in Jerusalem, 15 critically wounded, at least 4 dead, some bodies are still trapped under truck's wheels.
More updates soon.
Remember, it's only a "massacre" when an Arab kills Jews. When Jews kill Arabs, it's "military action".
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Anytime the term "massacre" is used, it is a subjective propaganda word to place increase emphasis on the event. Nothing more.
I was just reading a news article and say this item of interest:
No terrorist group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack. Hamas’s so-called military wing, however, took to Facebook to praise the carnage as a “heroic” operation. Hamas spokesperson Hazaem Qassem wrote that “the continuous operations in the West Bank and Jerusalem prove that the Jerusalem Intifada is not an isolated event, but rather a decision by the Palestinian people to revolt until they attain their freedom and liberation from the Israeli occupation.”
Not every single exchange since May 1948 can be said as within the line of the law. In the Great History of the World, there are probably very few conflicts that it can be said, follows the philosophy of 21st Century International Criminal Law, Humanitarian Law, and Customary codices.
The peculiar thing about the Arab-Israeli Confrontation is that the International Community declared the West Bank as an Occupation and the Arab Palestinians as Protected Persons. Well guess what????? What does the Law present??? The following is criminal activity is punishable by law:
(This is a layman's thumbnail presentation.)
• Protected persons who commit an offense which is solely intended to harm the Occupying Power,
• Protected person guilty of espionage, of serious acts of sabotage against the military installations of the Occupying Power,
• Protected person guilty of intentional offenses which have caused the death of one or more persons,
Now the requirement to enforce these act comes from the law that date back to a time even before The Great War and Balfour Declaration: Give the Occupying Authority the power to restore, and ensure, as far as possible, public order and safety.
When activities like HAMAS fire rockets and mortars into Israel, that is an example of an organized crime activity. When Palestinian religious leaders threaten religious war over Jerusalem, that is a threat to international peace --- and a violation of law. When PA representatives publicly say "Transferring the American Embassy to Jerusalem will lead to bloodshed" --- that is a violation of the UN Charter of the first magnitude, and would, if acted upon, lead to Article VII action.
Most Respectfully.
R