“International law stipulates that [the reaction] must be proportionate”
Never has the longtime criticism that Israel’s response to Muslim terrorism been as ghoulishly absurd as it is now
Norway’s prime minister says the Israeli army’s response to the deadly Hamas attack that killed 1,400 people and saw over 230 abducted by terrorists has been disproportionate, and denounces a “catastrophic” humanitarian situation in Gaza.
“International law stipulates that [the reaction] must be proportionate. Civilians must be taken into account, and humanitarian law is very clear on this. I think this limit has been largely exceeded,” Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store says on NRK public radio.
Turning terrorism into a math problem never made any moral, logical or strategic sense.
How many Arab Muslim women should Israel rape to be proportionate?
How many children should it kidnap and hold hostage?
Wars should be fought and won against military personnel. When terrorists hide behind civilians, then they have to be fought and destroyed. And the civilian casualties are their fault and the fault of those who don’t evacuate.
There is no proportion in fighting an enemy who brutally tortures and massacres your women and children. You utterly defeat and destroy them instead of proportionally trading crimes for crimes and evils for evils until the UN and the prime minister of Norway approve.
Goofy says
Good points, sir. What was it again? An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth? That’s proportionality, right?
John says
Although bleating about the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, Hamas shows no interest in helping its own people:
//Hamas likely has hundreds of thousands of gallons of fuel, as well as stocks of weapons, food, medicine, and water hidden in its network of tunnels.
It is probably using these supplies sparingly, in the hopes that its armed wing can sustain three or four months of fighting, a senior Lebanese official told the New York Times, and would not consider giving them to civilians facing humanitarian catastrophe, or to the aid organizations desperately trying to save people’s lives in shelters and hospitals.
“The Hamas movement cares only about the Hamas movement,” Samir Ghattas, an Egyptian strategic analyst focusing on Gaza, told the Times. “The public of Gaza mean absolutely nothing for Hamas.”//
Source:
https://www.vox.com/world-politics/2023/10/29/23937655/israel-ground-assault-gaza-hamas-explained
Bobby (not the count, mind you!, just the dog) says
What, with all the bombing of the tunnels taking place, it is rather doubtful that they still have a lot of stocks. By now most of it must have been blown to smithereens. And why do I think I can say that? Well, look at the bombing, and apparently quite a bit of mohamedans have left the tunnels, to fight out in the open, and I’m quite sure they didn’t do that for fun; they must have felt forced to.
Tunnels are ‘old school’, I guess. Good for them.
Bexarkat says
I would like to believe that only Arab armies are as amoral as the PM believes.
Roadrunner says
Forget it. Ask the jerries. They were already at it in WWI.
Tony Wilson says
Always the same is it not. Hamas want to eliminate all Jews, first point in their charter, so proportionate should be the same?
rubiconcrest says
That is the intelligent and logical conclusion that free people must accept. Norway PM’s appeasement is sickening.
Hoi Polloi says
Well said. Politicians seem to think that because they don’t listen to us, we don’t listen to them. International law requires a proportionate response, they continue to say? Well, alrighty, then.
Blougeoisie says
Perhaps it is a proportional amount of the global Islamic population the dear prime minister was referring to.