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During the 2006 Lebanon War, Israel Defense Force Northern Commander Gadi Eisenkot implemented a military strategy that sought to target and destroy entire civilian areas rather than engage in difficult and dangerous ground combat necessary to capture them. The goal of this strategy was more than simply trying to reduce Israeli casualties — the stated purpose of this new approach was to hold the entire civilian population accountable for the actions of Hezbollah fighters. Eisenkot did away with the requirement under international law to distinguish between military and civilian targets. This new doctrine was first used on the West Beirut Dahiya neighborhood, and the doctrine took its name from this location — the "Dahiya" Doctrine.
The "Dahiya Doctrine" specifically calls for the deliberate targeting of civilian populations and civilian infrastructure for the specific purpose of causing suffering and severe distress throughout the targeted population. The goal was to simultaneously destroy any enemy in the targeted area, to intimidate the targeted population into turning on the militants (in the case Hezbollah), and to deter other population centers from supporting Hezbollah. The "Dahiya Doctrine" was used extensively against Gaza since 2008, killing thousands of civilians. In its definition and through its execution, the "Dahiya Doctrine" amounts to nothing less than state terrorism, which means that the Israeli military, through its implementation of this policy, has become a state sponsor of terrorism.
As the facts emerge about the performance of the Russian military during the battle for Mariupol, it becomes crystal clear that the Russian soldiers behaved in an exemplary fashion, putting themselves at risk to ensure that the principles of distinction and military necessity were applied liberally and well within the spirit and letter of international law.
One cannot make a similar claim about the Israeli Defense Force and Gaza, where the "Dahiya Doctrine" is being executed with a vengeance.
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Israel appears to keep bombing enough to create conditions that make the starvation and death of most of the remaining a matter or course, all the while claiming the need to defend itself and repeating that enough human aids gets through.
And what do the supporters of Israel do? Probably they follow the lead:
Best of the Web: WaPo reports Biden KNEW Israel was indiscriminately bombing civilians in Gaza
And what is the situation in Israel?
War on Gaza: Israel's leftists quickly lost their compassion for Palestinians And they said "never again"! Apparently it is easy to proclaim at a distance, in time and space, but when closer to a sore point in history, does it become more difficult and ambiguous as the mind filters the information attempting to uphold an idea that little has changed from before?
Scott Ritter: Russia, Israel and the law of war regarding civilians Perhaps the people in Gaza experience what will become more common:
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