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Isn't this why the Geneva Convention was established?

Wasn't it about putting rules, civility, etiquette to war?

Hamas fights from:

• Schools
• Civilian homes
• Hospitals
• Mosques
• UN facilities

DF returns fire and Ban Ki-Moon, the UN Secretary General, castigates them. Say, Ban, what should they have done?

They wish to change the battleground: from soldiers, guns and bombs to reporters, cameras and broadcasts. The media battlespace is replete with anti-Israel propaganda - and it's only here Hamas can win.

Lurking behind here is the "we're better than that" argument.

When we declared our independence and the first bullets flew at Lexington and Concord the British were better than that.... they stood in the open, like gentlemen, lined up and fired volleys - they expected war to be the *trading* volleys until the last man stood.

Insane?

We thought so. We sought cover and concealment and they mocked our lack of breeding and civility. They wore uniforms - we didn't (violating the holy, though not-yet-existent Geneva Convention).

Were I an Israeli, I wouldn't want to be the country that died because of their belief in the ultimate righteousness of the Geneva Convention.

I'd wish to be the country that viewed it as a contract: to which all are a party or none are a party.