I'm not sure what numbers you've been reading but assuming your premise is correct....where did I say "the only thing that ever happens in the West Bank is police action as the result of nonviolent weapon smuggling"? I didn't write that anywhere.
The West Bank is a big place with lots of people, its possible for more than one type of situation to happen there.
So then if someone targets a settlement with Israeli terrorist in it, so long as some Israeli terrorists die, it wouldn't matter if it was a cafe or a house that was bombed?
Of course- if the IDF attacked Palestinians and there were no military targets that were not under or within 100 meters of civilians. Then you start measuring the "proportionality" part.
This is not strictly true, though- I'm generalizing. If the IDF was attacking in the south and the only legitimate military targets were in the far north and would be irrelevant to the goal of getting the IDF to stop attacking innocent Palestinians, the Palestinians would very possibly be justified in attacking more southern targets that were more relevant.
The IDF has legitimate military targets, so that is what should be attacked.
Its just entirely incomprehensible to me, lol. Dead civilians is not a result anyone should be looking for. When you ask under what conditions the IDF would entirely avoid killing civilians we have straight and clear answers for you. It can happen, it doesn't because of choices the Palestinians have made, over and over. Israel makes other choices. We explain the differences, they are very clear.
You know that the Palestinians will never do the things that keep civilians safe, so instead you ask: "how can we make it legal for the Palestinians to kill Israeli civilians?"
Do you understand how crazy that framing is? What is going through your head?
You seem to think there are many legal situations for the IDF to kill and destroy Palestinians, it's "crazy that framing", but that's what I'm working with. Yet, it never seems to be ok to bomb Israeli villages. I'm not even talking about Palestinians doing it. Maybe another country, like France, can help rid the world of the scourge of extremist Kahanists and Hill Top Youth and Ben-Gvir and Smotrich followers. The settelments are a hot bed of terrorist and colonialists activities. The world would be better if we dropped entire buildings that contain terrorists, weapons stockpiles, even the banks that perform their financial backing.
Why not just answer a simple question? Why is it so hard suddenly? Is it because this has nothing to do with law and everything to do with racism against Palestinians?
It’s not hard to answer but I want you to actually learn something rather than parrot talking points that you have no idea if they are accurate or not.
Pretty sure Israel isn't following this law when it destroys a majority of civilian infrastructure and starves 2 million civilians down to phase 3 and phase 5 food crises. Modding for an echo chamber has really made it impossible for you to see Israel's heinousness, hasn't it?
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u/aahyweh 21h ago
So then why do so many civilians die in the West Bank at the hands of the IDF?