Schiff proposes to lower the bar...

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Wed Mar 6 16:00:47 PST 2002


Jeffrey Fisher wrote:
>
> while i disagree with nathan's "legalese" approach to the war crimes
> issue, i actually think the analysis in his last two graphs is
> relatively cogent. i would add the following,
>
> (1) it seems to me that, morally, the distinction you are questioning
> between military and civilians is not questionable only in civil wars,
> which i think are mistakenly seen as somehow "different" . . .
>

Any Israeli settler on the west bank is a criminal of some sort just by eating breakfast or going to a movie. They are criminals by definition, and have as much right to exist as someone who walks through my front door and begins to trash the place.

Carrol



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