Attacks on civilians authorized by jewish law

[Tayeb]

s3 and greetings,

What's evident and most of people don't know is that what Israel is doing in Lebanon and Gaza is authorized by the jewish law. The jewish law says:

"....If one voluntarily stays in a city that is under siege, one has the status of a combatant.

The unintentional and undesirable killing of involuntarily remaining innocent civilians seems to this author to be the one "killing" activity which is permissible in Jewish law in war situations which would not be permissible in the pursuer/self-defense situations. Just like Jewish law permits one to send one's own soldiers out to combat (without their consent) to be perhaps killed, Jewish law would allow the unintentional killing of innocent civilians as a necessary (but undesired byproduct) of the moral license of war

source: http://www.jlaw.com/Articles/war3.html

Interestingly it considers an auhtorized war the war of conquest of territories:

"The king must first wage only obligatory wars. What is an obligatory war? It is a war against the seven nations, the war against Amalek, and a war to deliver Israel from an enemy who has attacked them. Then he may wage authorized wars, which is a war against others in order to enlarge the borders of Israel and to increase his greatness and prestige."

source: http://www.jlaw.com/Articles/war2.html

The site says that the usage of nuclear weapons is permissable:

The use of tactical (battlefield) nuclear weapons designed solely to be used on the field of battlefield would, in circumstances where the complete destruction of the combatants be permissible, (such as after the proper warning and peace seeking) would be acceptable.

Ma'a-salaama,

[sister_Harb]

Of course they actions are authorized by the jewish (or Israeli) law, which they have wrote by themselves. How they even could broke they own laws? Oh no, if it will be needed, they just change they laws.

And they are also very skillfull to use those laws; for example when they need to stole more lands from Palestinians, they can also use old laws from the age of Ottoman Empire and claim they are still valid. That was they strategy specially at 1980´s...

Unfortunately they own laws specially at the during of military crisis don´t respect the Geneva Convention...

:(

[Tayeb]

s3 sr,

And these are the "terrorists" they kill based in that law, the so-called "enemy combatatants" that didn't flee:

http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/am/uploads/ghalya-family.jpg
Massacre of Bahr a-Sudaniya in Gaza on July 9, 2006.

I just read in CNN newsticker that USA is speeding up the supply of precision-guided bombs to Israel.

While Muslim countries look passively, specially the leaders.

Ma'a-salaama,

[Tayeb]

On killing innocents check Yediot Aharonot:

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/1,7340,L-3283720,00.html

The Yesha Rabbinical Council announced in response to an IDF attack in Kfar Qanna that "according to Jewish law, during a time of battle and war, there is no such term as 'innocents' of the enemy."

All of the discussions on Christian morality are weakening the spirit of the army and the nation and are costing us in the blood of our soldiers and civilians," the statement said. (Efrat Weiss)