From: Alfio Puglisi (puglisi@arcetri.astro.it)
Date: Mon Mar 17 2003 - 07:50:04 MST
On Mon, 17 Mar 2003, Mike Lorrey wrote:
>
>When she decided to be party to a war crime, she placed herself outside
>the bounds of our protection. Under the Geneva Conventions, her
>Palestinian hosts can be summarily executed for allowing her to engage
>in the activities which got her killed. The Israeli soldier driving the
>bulldozer cannot be held at fault whatsoever. THIS is how the Geneva
>Conventions work.
Let me get this straight, because I'm not understanding this Geneva
convention thing. For context, I am assuming that the Israeli bulldozers
are destroying some terrorist relative home, or houses near the border
that may be used to dig tunnels used for firearms smuggling (it happened
sometimes, and hundreds of houses have been torn down).
- If some enemy soldier comes with a bulldozer and wants to destroy my
house, and I oppose it without first wearing an uniform, am I an illegal
combatant?
- If I help some other guy whose house is being destroyed by an enemy
soldier and I don't have an uniform, am I an illegal combatant? Can I be
summarily executed for that?
If the answer to any of those questions is "yes", then the Geneva
convention says that, once soldiers enter a city, the population cannot
defend itself.
Ciao,
Alfio
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