@Dotta , the disregard for international conventions and institutions is what Hamas is doing.
Is it international convention to slaughter babies, to kidnap civilians, to behead the innocent, to rape children and young women and elderly women until their bones break?
Is it international convention for armed men to seize hostages and hide them underground or wherever they may be?
What IS international convention is for the Red Cross to be allowed to visit hostages and check on their welfare, but they either choose not to or more likely are being prevented from doing so by Hamas.
What IS international convention is that fighters do not attack civilians, do not invade their homes, do not shoot them at a music festival, do not bind children and set them on fire before the eyes of their parents, and do not set the parents on fire in front of their children.
That is not international convention. That is purely terrorism. War crimes that must be prosecuted by the International Court of Justice.
Israel will stand alone against the world because they have to, if that’s what it takes, to protect the one Jewish nation in the world. Where Jews have lived for millennia.
I imagine that if this were happening to Poland, you would want the Poles to protect their citizens and save their land. If Poland were the victim of a massacre as was Israel, and the world was screaming “all Poles must die,” would you care about your people or about the world’s opinions?
It is Israel that is even facilitating the evacuation of Gaza’s civilians.
Imo that goes above and beyond international conventions when it comes to war.
Also, there have been violent protests near my neighborhood in NYC—-far from Israel, far from Gaza, far from Europe. Why should I and my family, friends and neighbors have to fear violence here due to religious bigotry? That is not coventional. Nationally or internationally.
IMO