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		<title>By: wingless</title>
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		<dc:creator>wingless</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2009 21:54:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>AW, um...err...Well, you have done something incredible: 
I&#039;M ABSOLUTELY SPEECHLESS!</description>
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I&#8217;M ABSOLUTELY SPEECHLESS!</p>
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		<title>By: AW</title>
		<link>http://wingless.aoriginality.com/?p=483&#038;cpage=1#comment-2989</link>
		<dc:creator>AW</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 01:49:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Fuck the UN and the jew hating warmongering Arab miliants. I hate these groups likew the one in Sri Lanka and Sudan. BURN them and bomb them with cluster bombs or snipe their asses up. Israel will always win against genocidial muslim pigs/pricks. 

Anyway Israel has the BEST girls on the world. If I had to join their Defence force to fuck then I would.

Nothing more safer in life than fucking and smoking weed :)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Fuck the UN and the jew hating warmongering Arab miliants. I hate these groups likew the one in Sri Lanka and Sudan. BURN them and bomb them with cluster bombs or snipe their asses up. Israel will always win against genocidial muslim pigs/pricks. </p>
<p>Anyway Israel has the BEST girls on the world. If I had to join their Defence force to fuck then I would.</p>
<p>Nothing more safer in life than fucking and smoking weed <img src='http://wingless.aoriginality.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: Wingless</title>
		<link>http://wingless.aoriginality.com/?p=483&#038;cpage=1#comment-1450</link>
		<dc:creator>Wingless</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2009 00:55:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>That&#039;s John! It&#039;s encouraging - sometimes I feel like the world&#039;s flipped! That I am in some bizarro alternate reality... often alone...

I really wish some of these people would respond and turn it into a dialogue . I honestly enjoy the stimulation and sometimes (alas, rarely) learn something from people who disagree with me. 

Unfortunately I found most who want to disagree are very much like Ms. Pine above. She regurdidates soundbytes without any supporting information.  Such posts rarely even reference the post they are replying to... These posts are always filled with rheotric: &quot;illegal war&quot;, &quot;genocide&quot;, &quot;ethnic cleansing&quot; (i.e. Gaza is being ethnically cleansed.....Right, and that&#039;s why their population has one of the heighest growth rates in the world....hrm....)... When and if ANYONE RESPONDS they will rarely answer back as they really cannot answer questions - it&#039;s much easier to find another page on the blog and repost the same rheotrical yipyap.

I don&#039;t like what is happening to the left worldwide, it&#039;s becoming increasingly radical. It&#039;s not &quot;the rightwing has different views and solutions to problems&quot;, it is instead: &quot; they are right wing so...they are wrong and ignorant and evil and they want to EAT Muslims &amp; The Homeless (I love a salad with some homeless chunks I&#039;ll admit) and torture gays &amp; destroy all the nations of the world... and because they can only have these evil views....if they are right wing. 

(the right is also seeing a similar trend towards the farther right )These idealogical issues are becoming impossible to argue because of this trend, you are less likely to have a dialogue with somebody if you believe their idealogy makes them inherently &quot;evil&quot;. It&#039;s no longer a change of opinion, today each &#039;wing&#039; believes the other is evil and tryin to change their way of life! It&#039;s one reason I am &quot;wingless&quot;...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>That&#8217;s John! It&#8217;s encouraging &#8211; sometimes I feel like the world&#8217;s flipped! That I am in some bizarro alternate reality&#8230; often alone&#8230;</p>
<p>I really wish some of these people would respond and turn it into a dialogue . I honestly enjoy the stimulation and sometimes (alas, rarely) learn something from people who disagree with me. </p>
<p>Unfortunately I found most who want to disagree are very much like Ms. Pine above. She regurdidates soundbytes without any supporting information.  Such posts rarely even reference the post they are replying to&#8230; These posts are always filled with rheotric: &#8220;illegal war&#8221;, &#8220;genocide&#8221;, &#8220;ethnic cleansing&#8221; (i.e. Gaza is being ethnically cleansed&#8230;..Right, and that&#8217;s why their population has one of the heighest growth rates in the world&#8230;.hrm&#8230;.)&#8230; When and if ANYONE RESPONDS they will rarely answer back as they really cannot answer questions &#8211; it&#8217;s much easier to find another page on the blog and repost the same rheotrical yipyap.</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t like what is happening to the left worldwide, it&#8217;s becoming increasingly radical. It&#8217;s not &#8220;the rightwing has different views and solutions to problems&#8221;, it is instead: &#8221; they are right wing so&#8230;they are wrong and ignorant and evil and they want to EAT Muslims &amp; The Homeless (I love a salad with some homeless chunks I&#8217;ll admit) and torture gays &amp; destroy all the nations of the world&#8230; and because they can only have these evil views&#8230;.if they are right wing. </p>
<p>(the right is also seeing a similar trend towards the farther right )These idealogical issues are becoming impossible to argue because of this trend, you are less likely to have a dialogue with somebody if you believe their idealogy makes them inherently &#8220;evil&#8221;. It&#8217;s no longer a change of opinion, today each &#8216;wing&#8217; believes the other is evil and tryin to change their way of life! It&#8217;s one reason I am &#8220;wingless&#8221;&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: John</title>
		<link>http://wingless.aoriginality.com/?p=483&#038;cpage=1#comment-1442</link>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2009 14:56:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Good stuff Wingless.
I agree with your every word and support your effort to talk some sense into ignorant people.
As the going says, the first casualty in every war is the truth.
God bless,
John</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Good stuff Wingless.<br />
I agree with your every word and support your effort to talk some sense into ignorant people.<br />
As the going says, the first casualty in every war is the truth.<br />
God bless,<br />
John</p>
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		<title>By: Wingless</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2009 03:51:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;i&gt;What I do know and what I am very clear about is that the killing of even twenty children – whether infants or not, was a crime as they could have posed no threat to your powerful tanks, planes and helicopter gunships.&lt;/i&gt;
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ARE YOU CLAIMING THAT THE IDF TARGETTED A CHILD? Please show me one iota of proof... Please explain why they used ultra-expensive guided munitions ($100,000+ per) when it could have done the same job for a tiny fraction of the cost by using artillery... Why did they put soldiers at risk by sending in ground troops when it could have just done everything from the air or via artillery? AND WHY DOES IT CONTINUE TO PROVIDE THIS ENEMY POPULATION with WATER, FOOD &amp; ELECTRICITY when fellow Arab nations DO NOTHING, even their government does nothing (unless you count stealing aid meant for the people to be a government responsibility)

AN ANALOGY IF YOU WILL
If I point a gun at you and your family but am holding a baby in my hand what would you do? What would you do after I shot your father, then your mother (and I&#039;m not shooting them in the head, I&#039;m shooting them in the gut and letting them bleed out slowly, to increase your suffering and theirs), and what about after I shot your baby brother... Would you just sit by and not shoot back because &quot;it&#039;s a crime?&quot;

IT IS A CRIME NOT TO SHOOT BACK - Not shooting back at terrorists because they use human shields only ENCOURAGES THAT TACTIC.

Holding responsible those that shoot through said shields is the most dispicable kind of moral relativism for you essentially condoning this tactic.

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&lt;i&gt;I also know that my religion – I am Jewish – expressly forbids such killings.&lt;/i&gt;
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NO IT DOES NOT! PLEASE SHOW ME WHERE SELF DEFENCE IS FORBIDDEN.

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&lt;i&gt; So does international law.&lt;/i&gt; 
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Please show me where it says a nation must not defend itself it the enemy uses human shields! WHAT INTERNATIONAL LAW ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?! If you want to have this debate you are going to need to be clear... The &quot;international law&quot; states that combatants must differentiate themselves from civilians and must fight away from civilian areas. It is quite clear on this and is quite clear on whom is culpable for the deaths of human shields...

What have you to say on that?!

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&lt;i&gt;So does the United Nations. &lt;/i&gt;
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Soooo YOU ARE TELLING ME THAT: If such Human Rights CHAMPIONS as Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Syria, Malaysia, Indonesia, China, Russia, Egypt &amp; Iran vote on something then that makes it somehow &quot;right&quot;?!

That is ALL A UN RESOLUTION REPRESENTS! Nothing more than a vote by the evil, self-serving nations of this world! Who Cares! Do you even realize who sits on the UNs &quot;Human Rights Comissions&quot; (some, if not all of the above have sat on it)? the &quot;Disarnament Comissions&quot;? (the worlds greatest hiders of WMDs)

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&lt;i&gt;The Geneva Conventions on Human Rights prohibits such unlawful behaviour and anyone alleged guilty of such a war crime must, by international law, be brought before the International Criminal Court to answer such charges.&lt;/i&gt;
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RACHEL, PLEASE DO YOUR HOMEWORK! The &quot;Geneva Convention&quot; is a treaty... Israel has not violated any part of this treaty.

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&lt;i&gt;That is the law and that is democracy and that is how our society, and your society, works. Otherwise, there is no democracy, no justice and no law and we could all just kill those we wanted out of the way or who were just inconvenient.&lt;/i&gt;
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RACHEL - DO YOUR HOMEWORK! &lt;b&gt;Neither the Geneva Convention, nor the UN, nor anything else mentioned in your post has ANYTHING TO DO with Democracy! &lt;/b&gt;There are ENOUGH DICTATORSHIPS that sit on the UN! &lt;b&gt;Heck, the UN is probably the biggest world body of International Human Rights Violators in the world!&lt;/b&gt; Check out: http://wingless.aoriginality.com/?p=293
if you want to learn alittle more about what the UN is exactly. I am more than happy to debate or answer questions on ANYTHING HERE.

You seem like you are well meaning but you are taking a bunch of terms &amp; phrases you&#039;ve heard used and abused and simply regurditating them here. If a crime has been committed then you need to be specific. WHAT CRIME? WHAT CONVENTION DOES IT BREAK?!

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&lt;i&gt;If there were war crimes committed in Gaza, by either side, then those responsible, must be brought to justice. Can you help?&lt;/i&gt;
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Oh ya, Hamas is going to turn it&#039;s people over to the International Court of Justice... And then it&#039;s going to stop broadcasting children&#039;s shows that teach 3 year olds to kill the insidious Jew (that&#039;s you btw, nobody cares about your politics)... and then it will change it&#039;s Charter (which identifies Jews &amp; Infidels, NOT ISRAELIS) 

What world are you living in?! Idealism is nice and good on paper, but wake up and smell the reality!

As for your question of &quot;&lt;i&gt;Can I Help&lt;/i&gt;&quot;
Only in a limited capacity at this time. I can point out the absurdity of such claims. Most claims follow the same format as yours: they glue together a bunch of phrases: GENOCIDE-GENEVA-CONVENTIONS-UN-RESOLUTIONS-ETHNIC-CLEANSING-PALESTINE-CHILDREN-DEAD-HEARTLESS-PROTOCOLS-ELDERS-OF-ZION with little regard or understanding of that which they utter.

Do continue this discussion though please - I am really not here to belittle or disparage anyone. If there is one thing I can communicate to you it&#039;s to DIG DEEPER... Go to the SOURCE - read the Geneva Conventions, realize who they apply to... 

Look at Gaza, ask yourself how come the people there are so much worse off since Israel left (wasn&#039;t Israel the big bad wolf?!)

Ask yourself how it is Israel can be SO BAD and yet provide it&#039;s enemies with water, electricity &amp; food...Not to mention allowing aid to land in its airport, and use it borders and roads to get these supplies to the enemy!!! (i.e. why aren&#039;t they coming in from their fellow Arabs in Egypt?!). If Israel was so bad, how come it has given up land for yet another Arab nation (99%  of the MidEast &amp; 80% of Palestine are already Arab nations), while it can just as easily wipe out all of its enemies in a fortnight.

The high death toll in Gaza was a DIRECT RESULT of Hamas actions. They prevented people from fleeing, they did not provide bomb shelters, they told people to ignore the early warnings Israel provided (which is actually Hamas&#039; responsibility, as a government it&#039;s their job to provide early warning &amp; evacuation, it&#039;s not the enemies job!).

Don&#039;t buy into the rubbish - bomb shelters were 100% doable &amp; possible. HOW DO WE KNOW? Gaza is criss-crossed by underground tunnels used for weapons smuggling. The same skills &amp; funds used to dig those &#039;could-shoulda&#039; been used to dig shelters.

Or should Israel have done that for them as well?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>What I do know and what I am very clear about is that the killing of even twenty children – whether infants or not, was a crime as they could have posed no threat to your powerful tanks, planes and helicopter gunships.</i><br />
&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<br />
ARE YOU CLAIMING THAT THE IDF TARGETTED A CHILD? Please show me one iota of proof&#8230; Please explain why they used ultra-expensive guided munitions ($100,000+ per) when it could have done the same job for a tiny fraction of the cost by using artillery&#8230; Why did they put soldiers at risk by sending in ground troops when it could have just done everything from the air or via artillery? AND WHY DOES IT CONTINUE TO PROVIDE THIS ENEMY POPULATION with WATER, FOOD &amp; ELECTRICITY when fellow Arab nations DO NOTHING, even their government does nothing (unless you count stealing aid meant for the people to be a government responsibility)</p>
<p>AN ANALOGY IF YOU WILL<br />
If I point a gun at you and your family but am holding a baby in my hand what would you do? What would you do after I shot your father, then your mother (and I&#8217;m not shooting them in the head, I&#8217;m shooting them in the gut and letting them bleed out slowly, to increase your suffering and theirs), and what about after I shot your baby brother&#8230; Would you just sit by and not shoot back because &#8220;it&#8217;s a crime?&#8221;</p>
<p>IT IS A CRIME NOT TO SHOOT BACK &#8211; Not shooting back at terrorists because they use human shields only ENCOURAGES THAT TACTIC.</p>
<p>Holding responsible those that shoot through said shields is the most dispicable kind of moral relativism for you essentially condoning this tactic.</p>
<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<br />
<i>I also know that my religion – I am Jewish – expressly forbids such killings.</i><br />
&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<br />
NO IT DOES NOT! PLEASE SHOW ME WHERE SELF DEFENCE IS FORBIDDEN.</p>
<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<br />
<i> So does international law.</i><br />
&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<br />
Please show me where it says a nation must not defend itself it the enemy uses human shields! WHAT INTERNATIONAL LAW ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?! If you want to have this debate you are going to need to be clear&#8230; The &#8220;international law&#8221; states that combatants must differentiate themselves from civilians and must fight away from civilian areas. It is quite clear on this and is quite clear on whom is culpable for the deaths of human shields&#8230;</p>
<p>What have you to say on that?!</p>
<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<br />
<i>So does the United Nations. </i><br />
&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<br />
Soooo YOU ARE TELLING ME THAT: If such Human Rights CHAMPIONS as Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Syria, Malaysia, Indonesia, China, Russia, Egypt &amp; Iran vote on something then that makes it somehow &#8220;right&#8221;?!</p>
<p>That is ALL A UN RESOLUTION REPRESENTS! Nothing more than a vote by the evil, self-serving nations of this world! Who Cares! Do you even realize who sits on the UNs &#8220;Human Rights Comissions&#8221; (some, if not all of the above have sat on it)? the &#8220;Disarnament Comissions&#8221;? (the worlds greatest hiders of WMDs)</p>
<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<br />
<i>The Geneva Conventions on Human Rights prohibits such unlawful behaviour and anyone alleged guilty of such a war crime must, by international law, be brought before the International Criminal Court to answer such charges.</i><br />
&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<br />
RACHEL, PLEASE DO YOUR HOMEWORK! The &#8220;Geneva Convention&#8221; is a treaty&#8230; Israel has not violated any part of this treaty.</p>
<p>&#8212;&#8212;<br />
<i>That is the law and that is democracy and that is how our society, and your society, works. Otherwise, there is no democracy, no justice and no law and we could all just kill those we wanted out of the way or who were just inconvenient.</i><br />
&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<br />
RACHEL &#8211; DO YOUR HOMEWORK! <b>Neither the Geneva Convention, nor the UN, nor anything else mentioned in your post has ANYTHING TO DO with Democracy! </b>There are ENOUGH DICTATORSHIPS that sit on the UN! <b>Heck, the UN is probably the biggest world body of International Human Rights Violators in the world!</b> Check out: <a href="http://wingless.aoriginality.com/?p=293" rel="nofollow">http://wingless.aoriginality.com/?p=293</a><br />
if you want to learn alittle more about what the UN is exactly. I am more than happy to debate or answer questions on ANYTHING HERE.</p>
<p>You seem like you are well meaning but you are taking a bunch of terms &amp; phrases you&#8217;ve heard used and abused and simply regurditating them here. If a crime has been committed then you need to be specific. WHAT CRIME? WHAT CONVENTION DOES IT BREAK?!</p>
<p>&#8212;&#8211;<br />
<i>If there were war crimes committed in Gaza, by either side, then those responsible, must be brought to justice. Can you help?</i><br />
&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<br />
Oh ya, Hamas is going to turn it&#8217;s people over to the International Court of Justice&#8230; And then it&#8217;s going to stop broadcasting children&#8217;s shows that teach 3 year olds to kill the insidious Jew (that&#8217;s you btw, nobody cares about your politics)&#8230; and then it will change it&#8217;s Charter (which identifies Jews &amp; Infidels, NOT ISRAELIS) </p>
<p>What world are you living in?! Idealism is nice and good on paper, but wake up and smell the reality!</p>
<p>As for your question of &#8220;<i>Can I Help</i>&#8221;<br />
Only in a limited capacity at this time. I can point out the absurdity of such claims. Most claims follow the same format as yours: they glue together a bunch of phrases: GENOCIDE-GENEVA-CONVENTIONS-UN-RESOLUTIONS-ETHNIC-CLEANSING-PALESTINE-CHILDREN-DEAD-HEARTLESS-PROTOCOLS-ELDERS-OF-ZION with little regard or understanding of that which they utter.</p>
<p>Do continue this discussion though please &#8211; I am really not here to belittle or disparage anyone. If there is one thing I can communicate to you it&#8217;s to DIG DEEPER&#8230; Go to the SOURCE &#8211; read the Geneva Conventions, realize who they apply to&#8230; </p>
<p>Look at Gaza, ask yourself how come the people there are so much worse off since Israel left (wasn&#8217;t Israel the big bad wolf?!)</p>
<p>Ask yourself how it is Israel can be SO BAD and yet provide it&#8217;s enemies with water, electricity &amp; food&#8230;Not to mention allowing aid to land in its airport, and use it borders and roads to get these supplies to the enemy!!! (i.e. why aren&#8217;t they coming in from their fellow Arabs in Egypt?!). If Israel was so bad, how come it has given up land for yet another Arab nation (99%  of the MidEast &amp; 80% of Palestine are already Arab nations), while it can just as easily wipe out all of its enemies in a fortnight.</p>
<p>The high death toll in Gaza was a DIRECT RESULT of Hamas actions. They prevented people from fleeing, they did not provide bomb shelters, they told people to ignore the early warnings Israel provided (which is actually Hamas&#8217; responsibility, as a government it&#8217;s their job to provide early warning &amp; evacuation, it&#8217;s not the enemies job!).</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t buy into the rubbish &#8211; bomb shelters were 100% doable &amp; possible. HOW DO WE KNOW? Gaza is criss-crossed by underground tunnels used for weapons smuggling. The same skills &amp; funds used to dig those &#8216;could-shoulda&#8217; been used to dig shelters.</p>
<p>Or should Israel have done that for them as well?</p>
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		<title>By: Rachel A Pine</title>
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		<dc:creator>Rachel A Pine</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2009 10:25:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>WAR CRIMES - OPEN LETTER TO AN IDF SOLDIER

Sir


I have no proof that 420 Arab children were killed in Gaza, but I have relied on the figures quoted by the world’s media. Whether they are authentic or not, I just don’t know.

If the figure was not 420, maybe it was 320, or 220, or just 120. Perhaps even only twenty.  And, I have no evidence of how old these children were. Some were undoubtedly babies or infants – as I have seen photographs of the bodies, but others could well have been eight, or ten – perhaps even teenagers.

What I do know and what I am very clear about is that the killing of even twenty children – whether infants or not, was a crime as they could have posed no threat to your powerful tanks, planes and helicopter gunships.

I also know that my religion – I am Jewish – expressly forbids such killings. So does international law. So does the United Nations. And so does Christianity.

The Geneva Conventions on Human Rights prohibits such unlawful behaviour and anyone alleged guilty of such a war crime must, by international law, be brought before the International Criminal Court to answer such charges.

That is the law and that is democracy and that is how our society, and your society, works. Otherwise, there is no democracy, no justice and no law and we could all just kill those we wanted out of the way or who were just inconvenient.

If there were war crimes committed in Gaza, by either side, then those responsible, must be brought to justice.   Can you help?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>WAR CRIMES &#8211; OPEN LETTER TO AN IDF SOLDIER</p>
<p>Sir</p>
<p>I have no proof that 420 Arab children were killed in Gaza, but I have relied on the figures quoted by the world’s media. Whether they are authentic or not, I just don’t know.</p>
<p>If the figure was not 420, maybe it was 320, or 220, or just 120. Perhaps even only twenty.  And, I have no evidence of how old these children were. Some were undoubtedly babies or infants – as I have seen photographs of the bodies, but others could well have been eight, or ten – perhaps even teenagers.</p>
<p>What I do know and what I am very clear about is that the killing of even twenty children – whether infants or not, was a crime as they could have posed no threat to your powerful tanks, planes and helicopter gunships.</p>
<p>I also know that my religion – I am Jewish – expressly forbids such killings. So does international law. So does the United Nations. And so does Christianity.</p>
<p>The Geneva Conventions on Human Rights prohibits such unlawful behaviour and anyone alleged guilty of such a war crime must, by international law, be brought before the International Criminal Court to answer such charges.</p>
<p>That is the law and that is democracy and that is how our society, and your society, works. Otherwise, there is no democracy, no justice and no law and we could all just kill those we wanted out of the way or who were just inconvenient.</p>
<p>If there were war crimes committed in Gaza, by either side, then those responsible, must be brought to justice.   Can you help?</p>
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