Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: Mazuz sulla guerra del Libano

Mazuz è il terribile state attorney israeliano, che ha messo in questione un po' 
tutte le istituzioni israeliane.
E' doppiamente interessante sentire la sua audizione alla commissione winograd, 
dove ha definito la seconda guerra del Libano come "la guerra più legiferata 
della storia di Israele, forse del mondo".
Ne ha difeso la assoluta legalità e aderenza al principio di proporzionalità, 
incluso il drammatico episodio del bombardamento di Kfar Qana.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3484207,00.html
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Specifically, Mazuz denied the accusations that the bombings of the Shiite 
neighborhood of Dahiyeh in Beirut and Kafr Qana constituted war crimes. "The 
test of proportionality is not one of results," he explained. "Naturally, 
everyone understands that the fog of war pervades battle, and there is always a 
not insignificant amount of missing information and uncertainty. The assumption 
is that decisions are made in good faith on the basis of certain information and 
(sometimes) these decisions turn out to be mistaken – I think that for this 
reason the case of Kafr Qana was totally in line with international law. 
Afterwards, it became apparent there were things we did not know."
[...]
Mazuz also addressed the decision to go to war in the wake of the kidnapping of 
Israeli soldiers. He told the commission that he asked the decision makers to 
wait and consider, "to think in a more ordered manner," but others claimed that 
after a day or two Israel would lose legitimacy to act in the eyes of the 
Israeli and international publics.
  [...]
Chief Military Prosecutor, Brigadier-General Avihai Mandelblit also saw his 
testimony before the commission released today. He was asked to address whether 
total war against a terrorist organization is legitimate. "The answer we arrived 
at," he responded, "is a resounding yes. Since 2000 our answer has been that we 
define our conflict with Palestinian terror as an armed confrontation. And this 
definition - which was very, very innovative then – is today in fact accepted 
throughout the world."
  [...]
The chief prosecutor brought up the efforts the IDF had undertaken to isolate 
Hizbullah members from civilians, an explicit directive of the General Staff. 
One of the ways in which the instruction was enforced was the dropping of 
hundreds of thousands of leaflets demanding that civilians flee before the 
coming assault.
  [...]
"This was a successful warning to a population in order to protect it and is an 
obligation under international law," Mandelblit said. The fact that only 
20-25,000 residents of the south stayed behind (out of around one million) 
"provided for the IDF's ability to act." Otherwise, he is convinced, Israel 
would lose the legitimacy to act after a few days.
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Libertà per i comunisti siriani in carcere: Fateh Jamus, 'Isam Dimashqi,
Basel Hurani, 'Abd al-Halim Rumieh, Ratib Sha'bu, and Doha 'Ashur
al-'Askari 
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 incluso il drammatico episodio del bombardamento di Kfar Qana.
e perchè non va a fare l'avvocato difensore di DIchter in UK? Se
considera legittima Kfar Qana, cosa vuoi che sia un TK esagerato?

 considera legittima Kfar Qana, cosa vuoi che sia un TK esagerato?
Quel TK esagerato, con una decina di civili uccisi oltre l'obiettivo, può essere 
in teoria legalmente peggio di un bombardamento legittimo e legale, che causa 
cinquanta morti inaspettati.
Non so però cosa ne pensi Mazuz.
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