Are the Israelis guilty of war crimes?

Moon_light1985

yes indeed,absolutely, without any doubt.

KnightZone

Let he who is without Sin, cast the first stone!

Cleo

BIG Time

mad john

if they win, no. if they lose, yes

freeatlastboone

palestinewillbfree

ok 1st im not just saying this b/c im palestineian but b/c it is true. ok i understand if some one from ur troop was kidnapped any person in any country would fight back right? but ur supposed to fight the ones who kidnapped him or her right?

yes isreal is committing a war crime b/c they r not only targeting hisballah but they are hitting night clubs were many innocent people are killed or injured and they are attacking areas with a large group of innocents and many children are being kild tell me what children being american, lebanese palestinian or isreali deserve to die.

thats all i have to say and plz dont take nethinmg personally

richmond316

yes thy are ho the hell do thay think thy are killing young chirlgren

Steelers1

Not at all. Self defense is not a war crime.

fekri73110050

Israel is always guilty.
let me ask those who don't know the truth.
can you just tell me when the history of Israel as a country started? there was nothing called Israel 60 Y ago, and Hezbollah never cross the border to took those two soldiers cuz its a Lebanese land as the UN itself said.
what would you do if your brother of father is in Israelis jails for more than 20 Y and no force in earth succeeded to set him free?
think twice baby before answering.

ranger12

yes

mick

Yes but so is Hezbollah.

idontkno

budding author

I agree with 'Goz' 100% !! Which country isnt guilty of war crimes?? "Our troops would never do that" is a load of BS!!

pstod

so let me ask you this...if US soldiers were captured and held by canada or mexico...would we just sit here? i do not think we would...we would go in there and get them out...Isreal is doing the same thing...to answer your question...i don't know, i am not a lawyer...

Violent and bored

I know that they fired on a Red Cross aid convoy yesterday in South Lebanon which was against a treaty, I can't remember which, so technically they have committed an offence.

Gent

Worse...crimes against humanity
murder of innocent peoples and children
indiscriminate bombing,
Kidnap and unlawful internment without trial of thousands of palestinians.
Ethnic cleansing.
Massacres in Lebanon during previous occupation
Theft of land and property.
Past shootings of palestinian and lebanese children at point blank range,
Multiple rape slayings

Difficult to see of which charge Israel has not been guilty of over the past 6 decades.......
Oh and lastly.....Development and manufacture of weapons of mass destruction...not in itself a crime (but then they havn't used them ................YET!).

Philosophical Fred

The Israeli attack on Lebanon is not proportionate to the attacks from Lebanon on Israel. In addition, the Israelis are tragetting civilians whom it is difficult to see as sheltering the terrorist attackers.

In the real world it is perhaps more important that the Israeli attack on the Lebanon is stupid and counterproductive. Attacks on Lebanon cannot remove the bases of terrorism in other Middle East countries. These attacks are also having a disastrous effect on world opinion, particularly amongst Muslims who will cease to differentiate between their moderate co-religionists and terrorists..

Sparkler

are the Americans guilty of war crimes?

vicluv

theoratically, yes, practically no

jonnnboy

Sean F

Yes. And it is about time for the rest of the world to take notice of that.

nunjogomez17

more than 90% of killed in Lebanon are civilians. For me it is not just collateral.
only 3 Israeli soldiers captured so far, comparing to thousands in Israeli jails
But unfortunately you will not find court willing to trial them

lucky_j_2003

NO Hezbollah are the aggressors

stephen3057

mojowillie

I sent the following message to my member of Parlaiment this evening:

Good evening Rick and staff,

Iâ€™ve been following the war in the Middle East very closely. I have been tuning into the CBC almost hourly for updates on this unmitigated disaster where innocents suffer and the guilty are lauded as victims. It is time to take a stand and make some painfully obvious statements to the international community, no matter how politically incorrect they may be.

Firstly, The Palestinians and Lebanese have a right to a homeland free of conflict, just as much as Israel does.

Secondly, Canada should not accept emmigrees into our country who have fled due to persecution or unrest in their own homeland, who then return to their homeland and expect us to bail them out at their convenience.

Thirdly, Israel is as guilty in pursuing violent responses to aggression as their Arab and Persian neighbours. When innocents die in war, for any reason, this is unacceptable and contrary to international laws governing armed conflict.

Fourthly, the UN post was clearly marked. Our PM, within the last few months, stated pointedly that Canadians donâ€™t cut and run at the first sign of trouble. The current position of our PM and his government on this issue is disgraceful and needs to be withdrawn with an apology to all the families who lost loved ones in the bombing of this facility. The observation post was clearly marked and had been in the same spot for 30 some odd years. The staff in the observation post warned the Israelis that their laser guided bombs were coming closer to hitting their bunker repeatedly. We must make a statement to the international community that Israel is guilty of a war crime and may take no higher moral ground than their Arab neighbours. Israel is as guilty of terrorism as their Arab neighbours.

Lastly, get our boys and girls out of Afghanistan! The Afghanian culture is millennia older than our culture. We Canadians have no right to tell them how they should govern themselves! We have involved our troops in another Vietnam!

Take a stand Rick. No one else is!

Sincerely,

Bill Rymer

bristolpc1

No, the Lebanese are! Israel didn't start this war. They've been receiving hundreds of rocket attacks against innocent civilians and are just trying to defend themselves. "Wait" you say, isn't it Hezbollah and not the Lebanese who are launching the rockets and aren't they the guilty ones? I argue that the Lebanese people are just as guilty and responsible for the actions of the Hezbollah because they are taking no action to stop them. They sympathize with Hezbollah and allow them to parade around the streets with assault files, RPG's and other deadly weapons without warrant. It's the wild, wild east!

Imagine if a group of militant Americans starting launching rockets at innocent civilians in Toronto Canada and the U.S. turned a blind eye saying that "we can't control them" or "it wasn't us, just ignore them". Don't you think Canada would have a right to launch an invasion to defend themselves?

If the Lebanese would assist Israel in rounding up these Hezbollah scum, Israel wouldn't be killing civilians as collateral damage. Israel is NOT targeting "innocent" civilians, at least not intentionally. Israel attacks strategic military targets. It's pointless to target civilians because they offer no value in winning a conflict. Their objective is to eliminate the fighting capability of Hezbollah; not to cause fear or terror. Israel wants peace!

It is Hezbollah that is cowardly hiding behind civilians and using them as human shields. Hezbollah encourages collateral damage because it benefits them to have as many innocent casualties on both sides. They cheer for Israeli casualties and cry "foul", but secretly grimace for arab casualties because the higher the death toll, the greater their numbers swell with recruitments. Peace is Hezbollah's worst nightmare.

...and the Lebanese just sit back and let it happen which is why they are guilty and Israel is not.

mini prophet of fubar

the ones that have ordered them committed are the criminals

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