During the brief summer Israeli war against the Gaza Strip, Israeli forces repeatedly attacked UN facilities, particularly schools, that they knew for a fact were full of displaced civilians.
The UN inquiry expressed “dismay” at the Israeli strikes, noting they killed 44 Palestinian civilians and wounded 227 others in attacks on emergency shelters.
Israel has defended the attacks, insisting that other, closed schools were being used to hide weapons. Oddly, those sites don’t appear to have been attacked, and Israel instead hit UN sites they knew were loaded down with civilians that had just days prior been ordered out of their homes by the Israeli military.
Pentagon lawyers issued their own report, and while they insisting they weren’t judging “specific incidents,” they did praise the Israeli military, insisting that the decisions on targets to strike were largely in line with what the US military would’ve done under the same circumstances.
The killings loom large in a potential ICC investigation into Israeli war crimes against civilians in the occupied territories, and reflect the continued efforts by the US to keep Israel immune from any consequences for their actions.
Problem is they get away with everything and dumb Americans fall over themselves in their rush to support the murderous israelis.
The yanks did the same in Iraq and even worse like shutting the electricity off in hospitals while patients died on the operating table just to highlight a few war crimes that was done to citizens who posed no threat to America.
Someone should inform these supposed lawyers, Michael Schmitt and John Merriam, that the incidents are considered war crimes under standing international law and by stating that they approve of the Israeli actions are likewise guilty.
Where did America get lost? These types of actions are not what we are. If these things were being done by any other nation, for example, Russia, the super majority of Americans would go friggin' ballistic. It scares me that the majority of Americans are so accepting of these actions by anyone, especially Israel. Where are the supposed Christians in this country. There is no valid way to square what is being done with Christian tenets. That dog don't hunt, as they say.
Michael Schmitt and John Merriam are correct — the US would have committed the same war crimes.
They should know, they are the lawyers who advise the US to commit those crimes.
The US follows Israel practice very closely in all matters of killing Muslims.