When were the cards played wrong? When the Israeli settlers encroached on their territory, or when they were conquered by the Ottomans, or under British Mandate?
When their terrorist de-facto government had headquarters under a hospital. It’s really quite recent.
One could argue the people were suppressed all along. But there is no obvious distinction between a Palestinian and a rebel, because an environment like that justifiably breeds rebels.
This is the hospital where the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs tweeted a video purportedly from a nurse who worked there, only to delete it a day later after it was widely derided as staged, right?
But hey, I'm from a country whose military repeatedly bombed a Médecins Sans Frontières hospital "to defend U.S. forces on the ground", even after being given explicit notice and "Médecins Sans Frontières said no Taliban fighters were in the compound", so who am I to judge what's a war crime. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunduz_hospital_airstrike . A weregild of $6,000 per death ought to be enough, right? Patriotism needs no evidence.
The Geneva Conventions have a very high bar for when suspicion can justify action. Article 22, for example, has:
> The following conditions shall not be considered as depriving a medical unit
or establishment of the protection guaranteed by Article 19:
> 1. That the personnel of the unit or establishment are armed, and that they
use the arms in their own defence, or in that of the wounded and sick in
their charge.
> 2. That in the absence of armed orderlies, the unit or establishment is protected by a picket or by sentries or by an escort.
> 3. That small arms and ammunition taken from the wounded and sick
and not yet handed to the proper service, are found in the unit or establishment
When weren't they played wrong? They could have made a peace deal with Israel at the camp david summit. They could have made something when Israel left Gaza. They could have stopped attacking Israel at every convenience because Israel never initiated wars of aggression.
There are no excuses for such behavior. More Jews were ever expelled in the lands surrounding Israel than Palestinians were by Jews. Before Israel we had discrimination like the Hebron massacre.
Now they are angry that they lost against Israel in the fight for independence and haven't come to terms with that. But this is the minimal requirement for them to have anything resembling a positive future.
The only card Palestinians played had to do with aggression towards Israel and it puts them into a worse position by the day.
And the leaders they had that pushed for peace were murdered. Granted, that happened to Israel too at some point.
Will it do Bouvet Island? That's usually my test on how mindless a system is since there's so few possibilities where it is a desired choice but often shows up anyway because of GIGO. If Bouvet Island shows up but Palestine doesn't, that smells of manual intervention.
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[ 3.1 ms ] story [ 38.1 ms ] threadOne could argue the people were suppressed all along. But there is no obvious distinction between a Palestinian and a rebel, because an environment like that justifiably breeds rebels.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alleged_military_use_of_al-Shi... goes into quite a bit of detail about that allegation, and the lack of solid, independent verification.
But hey, I'm from a country whose military repeatedly bombed a Médecins Sans Frontières hospital "to defend U.S. forces on the ground", even after being given explicit notice and "Médecins Sans Frontières said no Taliban fighters were in the compound", so who am I to judge what's a war crime. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunduz_hospital_airstrike . A weregild of $6,000 per death ought to be enough, right? Patriotism needs no evidence.
The evidence is not unequivocal, and that itself is suspicious.
> The following conditions shall not be considered as depriving a medical unit or establishment of the protection guaranteed by Article 19:
> 1. That the personnel of the unit or establishment are armed, and that they use the arms in their own defence, or in that of the wounded and sick in their charge.
> 2. That in the absence of armed orderlies, the unit or establishment is protected by a picket or by sentries or by an escort.
> 3. That small arms and ammunition taken from the wounded and sick and not yet handed to the proper service, are found in the unit or establishment
What evidence are you equivocating over?
There are no excuses for such behavior. More Jews were ever expelled in the lands surrounding Israel than Palestinians were by Jews. Before Israel we had discrimination like the Hebron massacre.
Now they are angry that they lost against Israel in the fight for independence and haven't come to terms with that. But this is the minimal requirement for them to have anything resembling a positive future.
The only card Palestinians played had to do with aggression towards Israel and it puts them into a worse position by the day.
And the leaders they had that pushed for peace were murdered. Granted, that happened to Israel too at some point.