I rarely post on the subject of Israel and the Palestinians because it’s utterly outside of my area of expertise and a thankless task to boot. Check Norm Geras’s post on war crimes in Gaza.
I’ll only add one thing. Attacking governments for war crimes while ignoring the war crimes of NGO’s is nihilistic. It’s like the old joke about the drunk searching under a light post for his car keys even though he didn’t lose them there because the light was better.
Read Geras’s post.
Apart from the potential war crimes issue and the possible issue of arrest warrants by the European Union against EHUD OLMERT and EHUD BARAK to appear before the International Criminal Court, in the Hague, there is the obvious question of Israel’s financial liability to make good the criminal damage to Gaza by its troops. There would not appear to be any valid reason why the international community should pick up the tab for this latest Israeli offensive that has killed over 1300 Palestinians including hundreds of children and unarmed civilian men and women. In particular, American tax payers already give billions of dollars to support a state that kills at will. This surely cannot be acceptable by right-thinking, God-fearing people, who live in a democratic society and subscribe to the Christian faith. Judaism also prohibits the killing of children and innocents.