{"id":19337,"date":"2010-06-03T13:17:44","date_gmt":"2010-06-03T17:17:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=19337"},"modified":"2010-06-03T13:51:28","modified_gmt":"2010-06-03T17:51:28","slug":"dershowitz-on-isreals-flotilla-busting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=19337","title":{"rendered":"Dershowitz on Isreal’s Flotilla Busting"},"content":{"rendered":"

A great piece that I heard him discussing today<\/a> at lunch on the Smerconish show. (Never listened to Smerconish, but was enroute home to let my puggle out to water the lawn.) My position is EXACTLY the same as his: perfectly legal, also, not the brightest way to handle it.<\/p>\n

Although the wisdom of Israel’s actions in stopping the Gaza flotilla is open to question, the legality of its actions is not. What Israel did was entirely consistent with both international and domestic law….<\/p>\n

The legality of blockades as a response to acts of war is not subject to serious doubt. When the United States blockaded Cuba during the missile crisis, the State Department issued an opinion declaring the blockade to be lawful. This, despite the fact that Cuba had not engaged in any act of belligerency against the United States. Other nations have similarly enforced naval blockades to assure their own security…<\/p>\n

The act of breaking a military siege is itself a military act, and those knowingly participating in such military action put in doubt their status as non-combatants. <\/p>\n

It is a close question whether “civilians” who agree too participate in the breaking of a military blockade have become combatants. They are certainly something different than pure, innocent civilians, and perhaps they are also somewhat different from pure armed combatants. They fit uncomfortably onto the continuum of civilianality that has come to characterize asymmetrical warfare. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Seriously, go read it.<\/a> On the radio Dersh was suggesting that perhaps sending in the IDF with paintball guns (FN 303’s?) wasn’t the way to handle it, that they should have used some other means. He was suggesting some chemicals that make you blow chunks etc. I don’t know about all that, but the international response has been……exactly what one might expect.<\/p>\n

Woe be unto Turkey if they actually decide to have their navy escort the next batch of these idiots.<\/p>\n

ADDED: I’ve talked before about how I never use FoxNews as a sole source on anything, and they once again prove to me why I can’t trust their reporting.<\/p>\n

Second Aid Ship Reportedly Headed Toward Gaza<\/a><\/p>\n

Note to Fox, there were 6 vessels in the first flotilla<\/a>, making this the seventh ship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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