Quote Originally Posted by Seamus Fermanagh View Post
Magyar, stop sugar-coating things and tell me what you really think..... just kidding.


You do realize that if we take this standard as the operative standard, a large majority of nation-states would have to be considered criminal. Most of international law has been "honored in the breach" for a goodly number of annual orbits. You may have a particular animus toward Israel, but the number of states breaking, bending, or twisting international law to suit their own interests is not small. I daresay there are those who might view the USA as having transgressed the spirit of an international law or three....from time to time.

Doesn't it become impractical to treat everyone as criminals?

By the way, you implicitly are advocating a stance akin to old-style outlawry -- anybody can kill the outlaw at anytime without penalty -- which England itself moved away from beginning with Magna Carta. Do you really want international law and relations to revert there?
You speak sense of course, my own is only just coming back after I almost choked on my cake when I read the lastest chapter in Israel's sordid military history. It is just that I get so annoyed by Israel's flagrant disregard for decency let alone the law, and how we all just nod quietly when Israel sticks up the middle finger. It has got to the point where the West (esp. the U.SA) has started to look weak and vacilating when dealing with a country which relies on it for it's exsitence, while playing tough guys with Iran, Pakistan, Zimbabwe and N. Korea. It is counter-productive to "Western" aims as a whole. To dispense with ethics and morality, through the simple lens of Realpolitik it is clear that Israel is now a hinderence to Western might and Western goals, it should be dispensed with or lobotomised.