P F Tinmore, et al,
I think you missed it here.
The Israeli's have never declared war on the arab muslims, so how is it Israel's war. It is the palestinians that are engaging in a brutal war against Israeli women and children because they are cowards
You don't need to declare war to bomb the crap out of civilians.
(COMMENT)
War is a generic term. There are only two kinds of war:
The notion that a formal declaration is a political custom, but not a requirement by law. In the case of the Arab Palestinians, the act of aggression by the Arab League in the name of the Palestinians, in 1949 was enough. That opened hostilities and initiated an International Armed Conflict (IAC) that never ended.
It was an Non-international Armed Conflict prior to 15 May 1948, and transitioned to a IAC on the forced introduction of external coalition forces on 15 May 1948.
Any attempts to bring closure to the IAC perpetuated by the Arab Palestinians has met with negative results. While it is commonly claimed that the Arab Palestinians want peace, their actions dictate otherwise.
There is absolutely no evidence to support that the lifting of Occupation Security Countermeasures over the area currently identified by the Israeli government to be outside Israeli Sovereignty, would bring an outcome of peace from the Arab Palestinians. It did not in the past and it has been should that withdrawal efforts only result in a growth in Jihadism, Deadly Fedayeen Action, Hostile Insurgency Operations, Radicalized Islamic Behaviors, and Asymmetric Violence.
The Arab Palestinian have no reason to think that they have some special dispensation to conduct hostile actions against the state integrity, the citizens and the culture of Israel AND NOT expect an Article 51 response. The people of Israel - exercising their instincts for self preservation and national sovereignty will take such actions, in the face of extraordinary events and deadly threats from the Arab Palestinians, to preserve and protect its culture, its sovereignty and its people. This is totally independent of any Color of Law that the international community may paint in order to suppress and dominate the Jewish People and deconstruct the Jewish National Home.
I think you will find, that the Israelis do not really care if the Arab Palestinians want to twist the intent of the Balfour Declaration, the intent of the Allied Powers to put into effect the declaration originally made on November 2nd, 1917, ignore the intent of the San Remo agreement to secure the establishment of the Jewish National Home, mangle the recommendations of Resolution 181, to totally mutilate the intent of the authors in Resolution 242, or attempt to justify the use of bombings, kidnap and murder, assaults and ambushes, hijacking and piracy, the massacre of Olympic contestants, and the intentional targeting of the unarmed and the innocent. The bottom line is, that the Majority Rule that used the power of law and religion to historically persecute them in the past --- is over. Now that the Jewish People have a place outside the malfeasance of the International Community (Political and Religious) they will not tolerate the “Tyranny of the Majority” to set the conditions for the destruction by compressing the Jewish National Home into indefensible borders. (Just My Thought!)
MostRespectfully,
R