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Learning from America : The new defense, "My lawyer told me it was ok."
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Barak to hold meeting on legality of striking civilian areas in Gaza
[ Hermit : In the same way that Cheney hand picked a leap of sleazy lawyers to advise the executive that torture is legal, drove a truck through international and US law including the Geneva Conventions, and the handpicked successor's now assert that because the Executive's lawyers told them it was legal, that they should not be prosecuted in the US for their crimes; so too, Israel is now looking to their lawyers to redefine warfare and neutralize the Geneva conventions. ]
Source: Ha'Aretz
Authors: Barak Ravid (Haaretz Correspondent)
Dated: 2008-03-02
Defense Minister Ehud Barak will meet Monday with legal experts in the military and government to examine whether the Israel Defense Forces can legally target populated areas from which Qassam rockets are being fired at the western Negev.
Barak asked Justice Minister Daniel Friedmann at Sunday to determine the legality of these attacks. The defense minister will discuss the issue Monday with Friedmann, Attorney General Menachem Mazuz, Military Prosecutor Brig.-Gen. Avihai Mandelblit, the Defense Ministry's legal adviser and various elements from within the Foreign Ministry.
During Sunday's cabinet meeting, Vice Premier Haim Ramon asked why the IDF was not directing massive fire at the areas from which Qassams are being launched.
"According to international law, you can do that," he said. "In the Second Lebanon War it was clear that if they shoot from within a village, we can fire on them even if the area is populated."
Following Ramon's comments, Barak asked Friedmann to examine the issue in order to determine whether the IDF indeed has such an option.
IDF: 90 of 100 Gazans killed were militants
Meanwhile, IDF Chief of Staff Gabi Ashkenazi told ministers that of the 100 Palestinians killed in recent days, 90 of them were militants, mostly from Hamas. [ Hermit : This is another example of "The Big Lie" at work. According to doctors and observers, as well as health ministry officials in Gaza, at least 26 of those killed since Wednesday were children younger than 18 years and of the 113 killed in the latest violence, up to 60 civilians have been killed. Also not mentioned is the fact that Egypt has opened its borders to accept over 200 Palestinians injured too seriously to be dealt with in the Palestinian hospitals which in any case no longer have access to drugs and medicine due to the Israeli siege. If the death to injury ratios in this attack on Palestinians remain typical of the Israeli operations, this suggests between 1000 and 5000 Palestinians injured by the Israelis since Wednesday. ]
He said that the IDF distributed notices in Gaza before the operation warning the civilian population in rocket-launching areas of the upcoming attacks. [ Hermit : Another form of terrorism. ]
Ashkenazi told ministers: "In one incident we saw an elderly Palestinian leaving Jabaliya with a wagon, in which was hidden a Grad missile. He stopped 'as if coincidentally' next to an orchard. Two militants then arrived there, took the missile, position it on the launcher ? and fired."
The IDF chief added that despite the operation, the IDF would continue its efforts to prevent a humanitarian crisis in Gaza and ensure a regular supply of wheat, flour and petrol though the border crossings.
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