Israel finds dropping 4 million cluster bombs legal
Written by Haitham Sabbah on 28. December 2007, 2226hrs // Part of Haitham Sabbah's adventure in Israel, Lebanon, War Crimes // Other posts by Haitham Sabbah
Whew… Israel - and its army - saved again from that nasty anti Semitic PR by parents of dead children ( I remember those pictures, doesn’t anyone else? More massacre albums here, here, here, here and here ) by its its own extremely fair and just politicians…
The Israel Defense Forces will not take legal action against senior officers who were involved in the firing of cluster bombs into populated areas in southern Lebanon during the Second Lebanon War, the Military Advocate General said Monday.
Brigadier General Avihai Mandelblit acknowledged that cluster bombs were fired into populated areas, but said that this did not constitute a criminal violation…read on!
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December 31st, 2007 at 7:44 am
Half the problem here is the nature of the Geneva Conventions themselves. How can it simply be that the only entities responsible for enforcing the rules are the very governments whose soldiers break them?