It’s all the craze these days for folks to toss around the accusation and in some cases the blood libel of someone engaging in war crimes and/or of being a war criminal. Such loose rhetoric is hardly surprising in this age in which we have perfected the art of criminalizing policy differences.
A war crime is properly defined as a violation of the laws of war that gives rise to individual criminal responsibility for actions by combatants in action, such as intentionally killing civilians or intentionally killing prisoners of war, torture, taking hostages, unnecessarily destroying civilian property, deception by perfidy, wartime sexual violence, pillaging, and for any individual that is part of the command structure who orders any attempt to committing mass killings including genocide or ethnic cleansing, the granting of no quarter despite surrender, the conscription of children in the military and flouting the legal distinctions of proportionality and military necessity. Cassese, Antonio (2013). Cassese's International Criminal Law (3rd ed.). Oxford University Press. pp. 63–66. ISBN 978-0-19-969492-1. Archived from the original on April 29, 2016.
How many of those apply directly to Hamas? Taking hostages? Check. Torture? Check. War time sexual violence? Check. Pillaging? Check. Intentionally killing civilians? Check. Wow-how can that be? I mean according to all the leftist nostrums and high priests and priestesses of Marxist studies of fairness and Justice- isn’t Hamas supposed to be a peace-loving liberator of the oppressed and not an oppressor itself? If you believe such obvious lies, propaganda and drivel-please step to the front of the line there’s a bridge in Brooklyn New York I’d love to sell you-how much are you willing to pay homey? Those stepping to the front of the line then ask if that payment is supposed to be made with their own money or instead with the funds that they will confiscate from the rich and undeserving. Oh those clever Marxists-they will get you every time with their keen questions and uniquely imbecilic point of view based upon absolutely zero empirical evidence.
Now just hold on their buddy-wait a damned minute. You mean a war crime doesn’t exist simply because some leftist know nothing declares such an alleged war crime exists? What you talkin about Willis? Well before a determination that a war crime exists-wouldn’t the accused be accorded some procedural due process —I mean shouldn’t every accused be afforded some basic human rights? Ask a Marxist and look at Marxist rights and you will learn that the ever-insidious leftist Marxists have never accorded anyone any due process. Don’t believe me just research the Stalinist era show trials and learn for yourself. Oh please the rabble in the rioting mobs of Antifa and the Marxist/Anarchists on today’s college campuses screams: “Please don’t confuse me with the facts and actual history-All I need to know is the indoctrination I have received at the hands of my illustrious Marxist professors and rabble rousers.”
Just to show whatta fair and righteous fellow I am, I would afford Hamas a full and fair trial in compliance with all due process requirements before having them executed just like some of the convicted defendants in the Neurenberg Trials.
Nope the leftist Marxist Anarchist cries out take Israel, all Israeli
citizens and all Israeli leaders out and string them up and shoot them down like dirty dogs just like in the outlaw Western US. Afterall we don’t need any stinkin law. If they the “people’s tribunal” declares them that’s it- no more is necessary. My my my-how enlightened these leftist Marxist Anarchists are- how advanced and cutting edge their thinking is. Oops I made a mistake there—-leftists ,Marxists and Anarchists don’t think—- they do something far superior to that-they emote and ergo because they emote they must be pure. Yes they are 100% pure—unadulterated evil- the kind of evil that led Stalin to mass murder of somewhere between 25 to 45 million of his own people and Chairman Mao to butcher as many as 100 million of his own.
So when a leftist Marxist Anarchists summarily tries and convicts a person, a nation state or an entire people of being war criminals or of having committed war crimes—watch the hell out sooner or later a 100 million or so people perceived and emoted to be non-compliant with their edicts and determinations of enlightenment somehow will turn up massacred.
Oh don’t you just love these warm cuddly purveyors of all knowledge, all truth and all wisdom? No I don’t. I abhor them and decry them as the face of the devil and the personification of evil blotting out and staining the face of the earth. In the words of the folk song “when will they ever learn.” They won’t— because that would require discernment- a commodity that they clearly don’t possess.