TDH: “Article 147 of the Fourth Geneva Convention defines war crimes as: "Wilful killing, torture or inhuman treatment, including...wilfully causing great suffering or serious injury to body or health, unlawful deportation or transfer or unlawful confinement of a protected person, compelling a protected person to serve in the forces of a hostile power, or wilfully depriving a protected person of the rights of fair and regular trial,...taking of hostages and extensive destruction and appropriation of property, not justified by military necessity and carried out unlawfully and wantonly." I fail to see where Israel is guilty of committing war crimes [so defined].” http://www.tdhstrategies.com/2006/10/israel-did-not-commit-war-crimes.html
You fail to see a lot of things. Granted Hezobollah’s leaders are full of shit, but bombing sewage treatment plants would be classified as a war crime according to the definition set forth under the Geneva Convention: “extensive destruction and appropriation of property, not justified by military necessity and carried out unlawfully and wantonly."
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Iggy wasn't talking about a sewage plant, he was talking about Qana.\
No war crime there, and he will now privately tell people he erred.
Ignatieff at first referred only to Qana, but later made a more general claim. The specific claim I believe is wrong, the general claim right. Ignatieff: "I believe that war crimes were committed in the war in Lebanon, I don't think there's any question about it, and war crimes were visited on Israeli civilians and they were visited on Lebanese civilians,"
As for TDH he did not agree with either statement.
"Now, do not get me wrong...I STILL can't agree with Ignatieff's position on war crimes, no matter how you frame it." (emphasis mine)
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