UN Officials DEBUNK Israeli Lies - No Weapons Found In UN Facilities

[The Magistrate]

91. I Consider Them In Error As Well, Ma'am

And would note holes in the bolded portions through which one could drive a semi-trailer, let alone a battle tank.

It is quite true, for instance, that a facility such as a school is to be presumed not employed for military purposes, but it is quite possible for a government to be in possession of intelligence which convinces it that the facility is being used for such purposes, and this renders it a military target. Nor does the law require perfection; it is not true that an error is equivalent to malice aforethought, and I do not care who attempts to maintain that it is. It is possible for a mistake to be so egregious as to constitute negligence in a criminal degree, but that is a different thing, and to make such a judgement requires far more knowledge of the circumstances around and decisions behind the action than is available to anyone at present.

I do not consider the power of the sides equivalent, though I do not see much difference in terms of moral worth between Hamas and Likud. I am of the view, as I said, that the Israeli armed forces are in many of their actions failing to meet the standards of law as I understand them, just as I recognize the strategy of Hamas action is precisely to provoke such behavior in their opponents, and their guiding tactic to see to it non-combatants among their people are placed at risk of harm.