{"id":2989,"date":"2002-11-01T07:10:28","date_gmt":"2002-11-01T07:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.armedliberal.com\/?p=388"},"modified":"2002-11-01T07:10:28","modified_gmt":"2002-11-01T07:10:28","slug":"suicide-bombers-are-war-criminals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=2989","title":{"rendered":"SUICIDE BOMBERS ARE WAR CRIMINALS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;according to Human Rights Watch. The L.A. Times today runs this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/world\/la-fg-pals1nov01,0,1044273.story?coll=la%2Dheadlines%2Dworld\" target=\"browser\">story<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>A leading human rights organization charged today that Palestinians who order and dispatch suicide bombers, including senior leaders, are guilty of war crimes and should be brought to justice.<br \/>\nIn a comprehensive, 170-page report, the New York-based Human Rights Watch also says that Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat bears &#8220;significant political responsibility&#8221; for the &#8220;repeated deliberate killing&#8221; of Israeli civilians in the last two years of blood-soaked conflict.<br \/>\n&#8220;The scale and systematic nature of these attacks in 2001 and 2002 meet the definition of a crime against humanity,&#8221; the report states. &#8220;When these suicide bombings take place in the context of violence that amounts to armed conflict, they are also war crimes.&#8221;<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Damn.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m not sure how they went from groundless accusations about Jenin to this, but it certainly seems like a positive step&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;according to Human Rights Watch. The L.A. Times today runs this story: A leading human rights organization charged today that Palestinians who order and dispatch suicide bombers, including senior leaders, are guilty of war crimes and should be brought to justice. In a comprehensive, 170-page report, the New York-based Human Rights Watch also says that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2989"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2989\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}