"Proportionality" is also a component of the law of armed conflict. i.e. it's not proportional to blow up a church with 100 non-combatants because one enemy soldier or terrorist ducked in there to avoid you. Such an act would be treated as a war crime.
Now, there's no hard and fast rules for what is proportional and what isn't, but I think you could make a very defensible argument that leveling Gaza and the resulting civilian deaths and displacement is out of proportion given the number of actual Hamas fighters.
No it is not. That's idiotic. War is hell, literally and physically.
If 1 enemy is hiding behind human shields? The harm caused to them is entirely on the enemy. That enemy is out to kill you, your comrades in arms AND your civilians. You kill him dead, unless he surrenders.
Don't kid yourself. The vast majority of Gazans supported Hamas on 10/7 and still support them to this day. The number of "civilian deaths" is shockingly LOW. No army in all of history has gone to such lengths to avoid civilian losses as the IDF. Not one.
Your idols, Hamas, they never hurt civilians, eh? GTFO already.
When has Hamas been "proportional"? They want to exterminate every Jew in Israel "from the river to the sea" and then the rest of the world. Against that doctrine, what response is "proportional"?
Moron. Look at my post history. I've got no love for muzzies.
The point is that civilized nations adhere to the rules of war- regardless of who they are fighting. The Israelis do not. And despite all their pretenses, we all know that they would love nothing more than to kill everyone currently living in Gaza and move their own people in. As their constant illegal settlements show, they're only restrained by as much as they think they can get away with without causing the international community to finally step in and stop them.
As for me? I'd prefer if the last Israelite and the last raghead choked each other to death. Let's clear out the vermin of both stripes from the area.
"Proportionality" is also a component of the law of armed conflict. i.e. it's not proportional to blow up a church with 100 non-combatants because one enemy soldier or terrorist ducked in there to avoid you. Such an act would be treated as a war crime.
Now, there's no hard and fast rules for what is proportional and what isn't, but I think you could make a very defensible argument that leveling Gaza and the resulting civilian deaths and displacement is out of proportion given the number of actual Hamas fighters.
No it is not. That's idiotic. War is hell, literally and physically.
If 1 enemy is hiding behind human shields? The harm caused to them is entirely on the enemy. That enemy is out to kill you, your comrades in arms AND your civilians. You kill him dead, unless he surrenders.
Don't kid yourself. The vast majority of Gazans supported Hamas on 10/7 and still support them to this day. The number of "civilian deaths" is shockingly LOW. No army in all of history has gone to such lengths to avoid civilian losses as the IDF. Not one.
Found the Israeli shill.
LOAC is a thing in civilized countries. It's taught to US service members exactly as I just explained it.
Just LoL.
Your idols, Hamas, they never hurt civilians, eh? GTFO already.
When has Hamas been "proportional"? They want to exterminate every Jew in Israel "from the river to the sea" and then the rest of the world. Against that doctrine, what response is "proportional"?
Moron. Look at my post history. I've got no love for muzzies.
The point is that civilized nations adhere to the rules of war- regardless of who they are fighting. The Israelis do not. And despite all their pretenses, we all know that they would love nothing more than to kill everyone currently living in Gaza and move their own people in. As their constant illegal settlements show, they're only restrained by as much as they think they can get away with without causing the international community to finally step in and stop them.
As for me? I'd prefer if the last Israelite and the last raghead choked each other to death. Let's clear out the vermin of both stripes from the area.