Quote Originally Posted by Default the Magyar View Post
Why is anyone seriuosly discussing legal niceties when we are discussing Israel, a nation so outside the law I fail to understand how one could expect them to understand it, Israel has given up its right to be judged legally time and again. As far as I am concerned that nation does not desrve and should not recieve any legal considerations from its enemies, a dangerous situation for the most despised country on earth.

If the premier of Israel was assasinated, I believe it would simply be the removal of a criminal, when the IDF is attacked it is merely a response to a criminal gang.

Why should anyone treat Israel within the legal code if that nation refuses to abide by it?

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?