To csteele

Your lengthy response on whether Israel's use of white phosphorous was illegal in international law is answered by your own following statement:
"Israel's position has been that the Geneva Convention does not apply within the Occupied Territories nor is it a signatory to this protocol so if you are also a citizen of that nation you might perhaps consider yourself not being bound by this piece of international law."

Davidf also agrees.

Thank you for correcting your previous erroneous statement.

Dear David Singer,

You didn't answer my question. I asked whether it was right to use white phosphorus - not whether it was legal. Are you a lawyer who defends a client doing whatever the client can get away with or are you a mensch who has a sense of right and wrong?

Your silence answers my question. To you it doesn't matter whether Israel is right or wrong. It doesn't matter whether Israel does something good or something bad. Whatever it does you are going to defend it. Your type is common. You are one of many who are blind supporters of whatever they support, and it doesn't matter what the entity that they support does. We Jews have such people among us - probably in much the same proportion as everybody else.

I wish we didn't, but that's the way it is.

Davidf

Democracies regulate human conduct by the rule of law. The system is not perfect but is capable of change when thought desirable by the Government of the day.

The Arabs have no respect for the rule of law when it comes to the former territory of Palestine regarding the Mandate for Palestine and the United Nations Charter as illegal and void.

That is their prerogative and yours as well.

It is a choice that has brought the Palestinian Arabs nothing but grief and disaster for the last 95 years.

Dear David Singer,

Unfortunately you chose to bang away about the Arabs rather than look at yourself. It was predictable but sad. As far as I am concerned you are not much of a mensch.

Davidf

You are entitled to your opinion. It is a pity you keep running away from discussing any points I make.

Respect for the rule of law is apparently not of importance to you. So be it.