Thomas Wictor

Posts Tagged ‘Rami Rayan’

Collateral damage is rapidly becoming extinct

June 5, 2016

In military terminology, collateral damage is the deaths of civilians and the destruction of non-military objects. Customary International Humanitarian Law (IHL) allows for the killing of civilians. Rule 14. Proportionality in Attack Launching an attack which may be expected to cause incidental loss of civilian life, injury to civilians, damage to civilian objects, or a…

 

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The people who cried wolf

January 19, 2015

“The Boy Who Cried Wolf” is one of Aesop’s fables. There was once a young Shepherd Boy who tended his sheep at the foot of a mountain near a dark forest. It was rather lonely for him all day, so he thought upon a plan by which he could get a little company and some…

 

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The self-inflicted massacre at Shijaiyah

July 31, 2014

I decided to not wait until the Israel Defense Forces released an official statement about what happened in the Shijaiyah neighborhood of Gaza City on July 30, 2014. You’ll see for yourself that the self-inflicted massacre at Shijaiyah should never have occurred. Hamas is entirely to blame. Every news outlet on the planet is calling this…

 

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