On 5 Aug 2002 at 6:54, Hermit wrote:
>
> [Hermit 1] It should be noted that during the recent incursions,
> numerous reports of the rooftop watertanks being used as targets for
> tank, helicopter and machine gun fire were made.
>
> [Hermit 1] These articles from Mermaid (thanks Mermaid) should make it
> very clear why this was done.
>
> [Joe Dees] Could they have also been used to conceal Palestinian
> snipers?
>
> [Nurgle] Irrelevent.
>
> [Nurgle] The IDF is now depriving the people of an essential resource
> (water, in a desert-like environment).
>
> [Nurgle] How would people react is someone like Mugabe started burning
> down fields of essentials crops just because there way a tiny chance
> of rebels lying low in them?
>
> [Hermit 2] And again contravening Protocol IV. But nobody has even
> slapped them for this or any of their other numerous treaty
> contraventions in the past, and Israel is gambling (probably
> correctly) that the US having tossed the Geneva Convention overboard
> itself, doesn't want anyone looking at it too closely.
>
In fact, the US condemned the Gaza rocket attack that took out Hamas
military wing Commander Shehada and the 14 civilians with which he
was shielding himself as heavy-handed and unjustifiable. Of course,
the US would be willing to absorb the same criticism if it meant that we
could take out Bin Laden.
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