Barak Ravid, Haaretz Correspondent and Haaretz Service: Israel to grant legal aid to IDF troops accused of Gaza war crimes
Talkback
Title:No spine.
Name:Bazmann
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International laws protect non combatants. When a regular army targets civilians, the least the international community can do is investigate the allegations. If the IDF is found innocent of such allegations then their officers have nothing to fear, but if they were found to have acted like rabid dogs on a rampage then they should have everything to fear at the Hague. When Hariri was murdered in Lebanon, an international court tribunal was founded almost immediately to investigate his murder. How about the murder of over 1300 people and the maiming of over 5000 mostly children, women and elderly and the vast destruction that accompanied it? Unfortunatly, the international community does not have the spine to do that because it still believes in a mirage called a "peace process" and it does not want to antagonize Israel into contracting back into its cacoon. There will probably be individual court orders in countries that allow it, nothing more.