What about the crime of building a bunker next to a school? Or building a headquarters under a hospital? Or storing weapons IN a school? Not to mention hiding your combatants inside of civilian areas and using human shields.
Those are clear, unequivocal violations of international law, yet the ICC has yet to charge any of the Hamas leaders. Law must be applied equally to all if it is to be respected. Thus, charging Israelis for the intentionally set up gray situations while ignoring the explicit crimes of Hamas makes the ICC a laughingstock.
There is a huge swath of the world that judges the Israelis on a PhD level while judging Hamas on a special education kindergarten level and consider their views balanced. I’m fine with holding the Israelis to a high standard, but you must then apply some standards to Hamas.
What about the crime of building a bunker next to a school? Or building a headquarters under a hospital? Or storing weapons IN a school? Not to mention hiding your combatants inside of civilian areas and using human shields.
Those are clear, unequivocal violations of international law, yet the ICC has yet to charge any of the Hamas leaders. Law must be applied equally to all if it is to be respected. Thus, charging Israelis for the intentionally set up gray situations while ignoring the explicit crimes of Hamas makes the ICC a laughingstock.
There is a huge swath of the world that judges the Israelis on a PhD level while judging Hamas on a special education kindergarten level and consider their views balanced. I’m fine with holding the Israelis to a high standard, but you must then apply some standards to Hamas.