Guest,
Jim may have copied from another thread but he made no mention of WW1

He quoted from the just closed WW1 thread, accusing me of indulging in the kind of personal abuse he routinely employs.
I just explained why it was not. It was a factual description of their absence of any knowledge of recent (twenty years!) work on WW1 history.

Jim,
The International Criminal Court is in the process of investigating whether Israel should stand trial for War Crimes

Is it?
Everyone knows what IDF strategy was, so what is there to investigate?
In war there are always war crimes committed at unit and sub unit level, and that may be the investigation, and I hope any culprits are punished.

International law is there to minimise civilian suffering.
There is no question that Hamas flouted that law. You can see missiles and mortars being fired indiscriminately at civilians, from civilian occupied areas.

But for those war crimes there would be no civilian deaths in Gaza.
Why do they have to attack Israeli civilians at all? That is the cause of all this suffering.