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Originally Posted by Daddylikes
From Israel's perspective, they know that their use of force is disproportionate. The message they are trying to send at this point is "if you fuck with us at all, we will FUCK YOU UP." The reason they are trying to send this message, is that they are hoping that Palestinians will realize the futility of striking Israel. In realizing this basic truth, that if you attack Israel, you are in turn making life hell for everyone you want to elevate, then the Palestinians will begin to police themselves, and exert pressure on each other to refrain from terrorizing Israel.
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That by definition makes Israel a terrorist state, what an irony huh?
2. Discrimination and Non-Combatant Immunity. Soldiers are only entitled to use their (non-prohibited) weapons to target those who are, in Walzer's words, “engaged in harm.” Thus, when they take aim, soldiers must discriminate between the civilian population, which is morally immune from direct and intentional attack, and those legitimate military, political and industrial targets involved in rights-violating harm. While some
collateral civilian casualties are excusable, it is wrong to take deliberate aim at civilian targets. An example would be saturation bombing of residential areas. (It is worth noting that almost all wars since 1900 have featured larger civilian, than military, casualties. Perhaps this is one reason why this rule is the most frequently and stridently codified rule in all the laws of armed conflict, as international law seeks to protect unarmed civilians as best it can.)
3. Proportionality. Soldiers may only use force proportional to the end they seek. They must restrain their force to that amount appropriate to achieving their aim or target. Weapons of mass destruction, for example, are usually seen as being out of proportion to legitimate military ends.
6. No reprisals. A reprisal is when country A violates
jus in bello in war with country B. Country B then retaliates with its own violation of
jus in bello, seeking to chasten A into obeying the rules. There are strong moral and evidentiary reasons to believe that reprisals don't work, and they instead serve to escalate death and make the destruction of war increasingly indiscriminate. Winning well is the best revenge."
Israel has no right to terrorize the Palestinians with acknowledge excessive force, that excuse didn't work for Serbia and it eventually, when the blinders of Christian Zionism fade away, Israel will be held accountable for this use of state terror against the Palestinians.