|
Trending Topics
|
Source: https://jcpa.org/article/how-the-russia-ukraine-war-and-the-israeli-palestinian-conflict-differ/
How the Russia-Ukraine War and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Differ
(Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs) Amb. Alan Baker - Attempts to compare Russia's massive violations of international law in Ukraine with Israel's actions to defend its population from Palestinian terror attacks patently lack the most basic sense of fairness and proportion. Israel does not conduct any high-level war of aggression against its Palestinian neighbors. Nor does it willfully and deliberately target civilians or religious, cultural, educational, and medical sites. Israel legitimately responds in self-defense by selectively and proportionately targeting only those specific military targets, terror headquarters, rocket emplacements, and ammunition-storage facilities that serve the terror organizations. Moreover, Israel enables a constant flow into Palestinian areas of thousands of trucks carrying supplies, food, provisions, medicines, and materials. The writer, who heads the international law program at the Jerusalem Center, served as legal adviser and deputy director-general of Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.