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Source: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1065338.html
IDF: War Crime Charges over Gaza Offensive Are "Legal Terror"
[Ha'aretz] Tomer Zarchin - War crimes charges brought abroad against Israeli soldiers and officers involved in operations in Gaza are nothing but "legal terrorism," IDF Col. Liron Liebman, who heads the military prosecution's international law department, told the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations in Jerusalem on Wednesday. There is little chance that war crimes charges abroad will end in conviction, since procedural issues will end up derailing the allegations before they reach that stage, Liebman told Ha'aretz. But that doesn't much matter to those bringing the charges since "the goal is achieved when the charges are publicized," he said. International law expert Yoram Dinstein said at a conference at the Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv last month that a ratio of three or four civilian deaths per combatant death was the norm in most wars.