(Telegraph-UK) Jake Wallis Simons - Ever since its birth, Israel has been subjected to empty judgments and prim finger-wagging. While the International Court of Justice resisted the urge to demand that Israel lay down its arms and bare its neck for the slaughter, it could not help but deliver a scolding. Israel goes to greater lengths to avoid civilian casualties than any other nation. Take the leaflets warning people to leave the combat zone in advance of an attack or the strikes aborted when innocents are spotted in the target zone. Did the RAF do the same when we pounded Iraq, Afghanistan or the Houthis in Yemen? Did the Americans? Israel has managed to maintain a combatant-to-civilian ratio of around 1:2, even on a battlefield designed to put civilians in harm's way (the global average is 1:9). Will the ICJ now address Russia's invasion of Ukraine or Turkey's massacre of the Kurds? It's not the killing that's the problem. It's the Jewishness of the finger on the trigger. As Zionist leader Zeev Jabotinsky remarked: "We do not have to account to anybody. We are not to sit for anybody's examination and nobody is old enough to call on us to answer. We came before them and will leave after them. We are what we are, we are good for ourselves, we will not change, nor do we want to."
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