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Experts Say Israel's 'Booby-Trap' Attacks in Lebanon Violate International Law (www.commondreams.org)

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"These attacks violate the human right to life, absent any indication that the victims posed an imminent lethal threat to anyone else at the time."

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[–] Madison420 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

You say they're terrorists if I'm not mistaken.

Why then would you judge morality against what you say is immoral? I think like every mainstream religious text ever has something about two wrongs don't make a right.

[–] FlowVoid 0 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

First of all, I never said Hezbollah are terrorists.

More important, this is about legality not morality. Governments adhere to the laws of armed conflict not out morality, but because they want their enemies to adhere to them. International law is always transactional.

So if a government doesn't adhere to the laws of armed conflict, then its enemies won't adhere to them either. That's pretty much the only enforcement mechanism, by the way.