Skimming through, am I dreaming or is Keith advocating a set of rules for armed conflict as employing some of the best minds?

The law was formulated by the ICRC in the 1949 Geneva Conventions.
Almost all nations have agreed and accepted it, but I am sure Musket and Rag could soon come up with something much better.


Call me thick, but the only minds worth mentioning would be those trying to avoid such things in the first place?

Call me thick, but the means of ending conflict has been beyond all human minds in history.
Perhaps you two could sort that one out too.

Even if you take it at face value, nobody seems to have given a copy to either Israeli or Palestinian militants.

Israel abides by the law so it probably has got a copy.

Jim,
Commissioned by the friends of Israel

Yes. This report by this august and independent body of the West's senior and most experienced military, was commissioned by the friends of Israel.
Had the report been negative I expect they would have sat on it, but they must have been confident it would be positive, as it was.