Jew Did The Crime, You Read The Times

 1. Introduction of the Issue

The Question

The question of this post is who is guiltier of "War Crimes" in the recent Israel/Gaza war, Israel or Gaza? (I say "Gaza" instead of Hamas because why say an entire country on one side, Israel, and just a political party, Hamas, on the other side? It makes one think that those who do want to increase blame on the entire Israel side while limiting blame on the Gaza side to Hamas, even though Gazans support Hamas' recent actions exponentially more than Israelis support their government's recent actions. Homas don't play that game). 

Doing a search on the Internet (Google) with key words "Israel" "Hamas" "War Crimes" and "2021" gives 10 direct hits on the first page. Most of the articles claim that Israel and Hamas may be guilty of War Crimes. What is the actual EVIDENCE though for relative war crimes (who is guiltier)? 

2. Discussion

Definition of "War Crimes"

Legality of civilian casualties

"Under the law of armed conflict (LOAC), the death of non-combatants is not necessarily a violation; there are many things to take into account. Civilians cannot be made the object of an attack, but the death/injury of civilians while conducting an attack on a military objective are governed under principles such as of proportionality and military necessity and can be permissible. Military necessity "permits the destruction of life of persons whose destruction is incidentally unavoidable by the armed conflicts of the war; 

it does not permit the killing of innocent inhabitants for purposes of revenge or the satisfaction of a lust to kill. The destruction of property to be lawful must be imperatively demanded by the necessities of war."^[40]

...

When there is no justification for military action, such as civilians being made the object of attack, a proportionality analysis is unnecessary to conclude that the attack is unlawful."

Summary:

1) If the objective of the attack is civilian the attack is always 

    a War Crime. 

2) Civilian casualties in an attack are not automatically a War Crime.

3) If there is a combination of a military objective and civilian casualties from an attack, the relative value of the military objective must be compared to the civilian damage to determine if there is a War Crime. 

Measurement of War Crimes in 2021 Gaza/Israeli War

The most objective measurement of War Crimes is in terms of quantity rather than quality (with apologies to Jon Oliver #RatFJonOliverandtheHamasmissileherodeintoTelAvivwith). 

Gaza

Gaza fired 4,360 rockets, all with the objective of Israeli civilians, so that's 4,360 War Crimes. 

Trying to quantify possible Israeli War Crimes is much more difficult. Other than Israel, it's unknown how many rockets Israel fired at Gaza. Everyone would agree that the majority of Israeli rockets had military objectives. You would have to look at specific Israeli rocket attacks but another significant problem is while Gaza would be in the best position to provide evidence of a War Crime, lying about the relative military versus civilian damage would be well within its definition of "resistance".

For example, looking at an Israeli attack with the most potential for War Crime due to the extent of civilian damage, the lead candidate is probably when Israel fired 11 missiles along 200 yards of Wehda Street, in Gaza City. Gaza claimed that 44 civilians were killed. Here the objective of the attack was military as according to Israel the objective was a Hamas military base in an underground tunnel. So the fact that there was collateral civilian damage does not automatically make it a War Crime. The proportionality of the military value must be compared to amount of civilian damage. A Hamas military tunnel would have a very high military value as there are relatively few such tunnels in Gaza, they are the best hiding places for rockets and Hamas military leaders, are deterrents to an Israeli ground assault and are protected by being placed deliberately close to major civilian centers. In addition to destroying the tunnels Israel also estimated it killed 44 Hamas soldiers, including important officers, in the strike. On the other side, in addition to killing possibly 44 civilians, Israel destroyed two multi-family residential buildings. Israel claimed afterwards that it was not aware of the extent of the tunnel and its proximity to the buildings. This suggests that Israel did think that the resultant civilian damage was excessive in proportion to the military value or at least that others would think so. 

Other important factors though in determining War Crimes in the context of proportionality are:

1) The intent of the attack. Here Israel had no intention of inflicting so much civilian damage.

2) The extent to which the enemy contributed to the amount of civilian damage. Here the placement by Hamas of a military tunnel underneath residential buildings is not only a War Crime by itself but also makes the residential buildings part of the military target. 

3) Comparison to other similar attacks by other countries. There are comparable attacks by other major countries with exponentially higher proportions of civilian damage that were never Internationally categorized as War Crimes.

Based on the above, it's unclear that if you were any country other than Israel, the International Community would conclude this attack was a War Crime. 

3. Conclusion

In summary, regarding who is guiltier of War Crimes in the recent Israeli/Gaza War, and using the most objective measurement of War Crimes, the number of, we have the following conclusive results:

Gaza = 4,360

Israel = -0-

So congratulations Gaza, you finally found something you are better at than Israel. And when will the protest/boycott of Gaza for war crimes be held at the Palestinian/Palestinian supporters' offices or business connections and when is the UN session to condemn Gaza for War Crimes and/or related Op-Ed in The Times (rhetorical, no need to answer). 

Has There Ever Been Colonialization, Genocide and an Endless Series of Crimes Against the Universe in Modern Israel?

 

1. Introduction of the Issue

The Question

The question of this post is whether or not there has ever been colonialization, genocide and an endless series of crimes against the universe in modern Israel? Doing a search on the Internet with key words "Israel" and "Genocide" (the worst of the Big 3) gives 10 hits on the first page. Nine of the articles claim Israel is guilty of genocide against the Palestinians. One article defends against this claim. Keeping in mind though that people are often guilty of what they falsely accuse other people of, what is the actual EVIDENCE for colonialization, genocide and an endless series of crimes against the universe in modern Israel?

2. Discussion

Colonialization

Colonization

"While many European colonization schemes focused on shorter-term exploitation of economic opportunities (Newfoundland, for example, or Siberia) or addressed specific goals (Massachusetts or New South Wales), a tradition developed of careful long-term social and economic planning for both parties," 

One of the lies told by Palestinians/Arabs is that foreign powers directly participated in their wars against Israel on the side of the Israelis. Not at all well known, is that the United Kingdom, the greatest colonializer of all time, created, supplied, maintained and led the Jordanian army against Israel during the War of Independence. 

Arab Legion

(The Soviet Union, Cuba, Pakistan and North Korea also provided soldiers who directly fought against Israel). Great Britain provided the leader of the Arab Legion, John Glubb, and the top officers. Glubb married a Jordanian and the Jordanian King married a Brit (now that's old school!). 

During the War of Independence, because of Great Britain's Arab Legion, the Jordanian army was the only relatively modern quality army the Arabs had. During the Israeli Civil War, Israel had defeated the Palestinians everywhere, including the West Bank. Without the Arab Legion Israel would have taken the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, in the War of Independence. 

At the time, the King of Jordan wanted all of Israel to be part of Jordan, even though the population of Jordan was relatively smaller than the Palestinian population. He realized though that he lacked the military strength to do that and the British told him they would only support taking over the part of Israel designated for the Palestinians. Based on how the War went he was willing to only annex the portion of Israel conquered by the Arab legion and allow a Jewish Country in whatever was left. He never wanted a Palestinian country as, if he was successful in taking the West Bank, the majority of his subjects would be Palestinian, and a neighboring Palestinian country would be a direct threat to his rule. 

In the War of Independence, Egypt and Syria had much larger militaries than Jordan and much more threatening politics, and, a majority of the West Bank was Palestinian, so the Israelis had a defensive policy towards the West Bank in general with the exception of East Jerusalem. 

The Arab Legion won the West Bank and East Jerusalem and Jordan annexed both. Thus Jordan colonized the West Bank and could not have done so without the foreign colonizing power Great Britain. Included in the take was East Jerusalem, which the United Nations including Great Britain, had agreed was to be an International City. Great Britain publicly stated that it did so for its own economic self-interests. 

Great Britain was embarrassed by the fact that its military was leading an attack against a country that at the time would have to reach up to be third world status and that would have been exponentially stronger if the British had not prevented so many Jews from leaving Europe to prevent being murdered by the Nazis, so it ordered all its officers to return to Jordan after they initially crossed into Israel. All of them though quickly (and unofficially) returned to lead the front lines (but lying seems a relatively low badge of dishonor to pin on them here). 

So, Jordan/Great Britain thus colonized part of Israel, with Jordan leaving open the possible final solution of the conflict to it colonizing all of Israel. The United Nations complained that this was a violation of the related UN Mandate. But there were no boycotts, demonizations, violent protests or terrorist attacks against Jordan/Great Britain.

And HOW did Jordan accomplish this. That involves what follows, genocide and crimes against the Universe.

Genocide

Genocide

"Definition of genocide[edit]

Article 2 of the Convention defines genocide as

... any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group, as such:

(a) Killing members of the group;

(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;

(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;

(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;

(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

— Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, Article 2^[5]"

During the War of Independence the Arab Legion, and thus Jordan, conquered the West Bank, including East Jerusalem. Qualitatively, East Jerusalem had exponentially more Jewish religious significance than any other religion. Quantitatively, it's difficult to estimate how many Jews were in East Jerusalem/West Bank before Jordanian colonization because:

During and after the Battle of Jerusalem, Palestinian civilian looting destroyed most of the synagogues and Jewish schools. After the Battle Jordan expelled all Jews from East Jerusalem and prevented Israelis from visiting Jewish holy sites. Thus there remained no significant Jewish presence in East Jerusalem in terms of people or identifying history except for the Western Wall which ironically was spared because Muslims insisted it was an Islamic heritage site and not a Jewish one. Thus an almost complete destruction of Jews and Jewish history in East Jerusalem, which has always been the heart of Judaism. Now what's the word for that?

An Endless Series of Crimes against the Universe

Crimes Against Humanity

"Nuremberg Trials

After the Second World War, the London Charter of the International Military Tribunal set down the laws and procedures by which the Nuremberg trials were to be conducted. The drafters of this document were faced with the problem of how to respond to the Holocaust and the grave crimes committed by the Nazi regime. A traditional understanding of war crimes gave no provision for crimes committed by a power on its own citizens. Therefore, Article 6 of the Charter was drafted to include not only traditional war crimes and crimes against peace, but also crimes against humanity, defined as

Murder, extermination, enslavement, deportation, and other inhumane acts committed against any civilian population, before or during the war, or persecutions on political, racial or religious grounds in execution of or in connection with any crime within the jurisdiction of the Tribunal, whether or not in violation of the domestic law of the country where perpetrated.^[12][13]"

The List is long and undistinguished:

Battle for Jerusalem

"Israeli victories against the Arab militias in the city pushed Abdallah of Jordan to order the Arab Legion to intervene."

"It deployed in East Jerusalem, fought the Israelis and took the Jewish quarter of the Old City. The population was expelled and the fighters taken prisoners to Jordan."

 

"Arab forces attacked a Jewish medical convoy on its way to Hadassah Hospital on Mount Scopus. The British had provided no escort (as they had in previous months) and both they and Palmach forces were slow to intervene during the attack and help the ambushed Jews. After seven hours of fighting, the British put an end to the standoff; by then 78 Jews (mostly unarmed medical personnel) had been killed, as was one British soldier.^{[41][42][43]"}

Battle for Jerusalem

"The Jordanians in Latrun cut off supplies to western Jerusalem.^[154] Though some supplies, mostly munitions, were airdropped into the city, the shortage of food, water, fuel and medicine was acute. The Israeli forces were seriously short of food, water and ammunition.^[154]"

"King Abdullah ordered Glubb Pasha, the commander of the Arab Legion, to enter Jerusalem on 17 May. The Arab Legion fired 10,000 artillery and mortar shells a day,^[154] and also attacked West Jerusalem with sniper fire."

"The 1,500 Jewish inhabitants of the Old City's Jewish Quarter were expelled, and several hundred were detained. The Jews had to be escorted out by the Arab Legion to protect them against Palestinian Arab mobs that intended to massacre them.^[158]"

      East Jerusalem 

"During the Battle for Jerusalem, fighting in the Jewish quarter between the Jordanian Arab Legion and the IDF, Irgun and Lehi had been particularly fierce, leaving the zone in ruins. The battle and subsequent looting by Palestinian civilians left 27 synagogues and 30 schools destroyed.^[28] The Jordanian army is said to have blown up, three days after conquering the area, what remained of the Hurva Synagogue, which had served both as a civilian refuge and Israeli military post.^[28]"

"In the first six months of the 1948 war 6,000 Jews also abandoned the city, and when war broke out, thousands fled the northern areas subject to Jordanian shelling. "

 "as Jordan did not recognize Israeli passports, neither Jewish nor Muslim Israelis were allowed access to their traditional sites of worship in East Jerusalem, though Israeli Christians, with a special laissez-passer. were permitted to visit Bethlehem over Christmas and the New Year.^[50][51]"

3. Conclusion

Palestinian political violence

" John Bagot Glubb, a high-ranking British army general who worked with the Arab Legion, explained in his autobiographical history of the period how he convinced the Legion to arm and train the fedayeen for free.^[36] The Israeli government cites dozens of these attacks as "Major Arab Terrorist Attacks against Israelis prior to the 1967 Six-Day War".^[37][38] Between 1951 and 1956, 400 Israelis were killed and 900 wounded by fedayeen attacks.;^[39][40] according to the Anti-Defamation League "[i]n 1955 alone, 260 Israeli citizens were killed or wounded by fedayeen".^[41]"

         [It was not enough for England to have their General lead Jordan against Israel in a Colonialization, Genocide and Crimes Against The Universe effort. After the War this shmuck putz trained Palestinian terrorists to commit terrorist attacks against Israel from the safety of Jordan.]

In conclusion then, During The War of Independence, we've seen how Jordan, with England's help, colonized part of Israel, and tried to colonize all of it, committed genocide in East Jerusalem and The West Bank and committed numerous crimes against the universe during and after The War. So when people say there has been colonialization, genocide and crimes against the universe in modern Israel, they are correct. They just often have the guilty party and the victims switched.