“By weighing any single instance of harm to civilians against a perceived existential threat, Israel can justify virtually any strike as meeting the requirements of proportionality; the purported benefits always outweigh any costs.”

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“Israel has turned a principle that was meant to shield civilians into a tool to justify violence. Its approach to assessing proportionality—not strike by strike but in light of the entire war aim—is not how militaries are supposed to carry out their assessments.”

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“If noncombatant civilians are expected to be harmed, that must be weighed before taking the strike, but the long-term loss of vital civilian services, such as those provided by a water treatment plant, an electric grid, a bank, or a hospital, does not.”

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“As a result, the dual-use concept has increasingly made a wide variety of civilian activities subject to potential military action,” Veldheren - de Podcast

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“Many countries rejected the ICRC’s guidance, including the United States and the United Kingdom, which came up with their own rules for their counterterrorism campaigns in the Middle East.”

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“As Washington went to war with nonstate actors, it struggled with how to distinguish the civilians it was allowed to kill according to the Geneva Conventions—those “who take a direct part in hostilities”—from those it was not.”

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“Within a year, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, New Zealand, Poland, and the United Kingdom had also filed claims of self-defense against al Qaeda,” Tom Parker Marieke de Hoon Ryan Goodman.

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“Protecting civilians in war, it turns out, is much harder when one of the belligerents is a nonstate actor. Combatants belonging to nonstate groups generally don’t wear uniforms.”

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Waarom er bijna geen conservatieve beweging meer over is, volgens Yuval Noah Harari

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Dijkhoff over het ‘CRISIS’-idee bij de #formatie

#WNL #WNL opZondag

Het is niet zozeer duidelijke taal, maar tot welk doel deze taal wordt ingezet. Duidelijke taal als misleiding van de complexiteit is inderdaad niet goed. Zonder duidelijke taal kom je echter niet tot de complexiteit, Tom-Jan Meeus Guus Valk.
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'Every time we're close to a deal, both sides sabotage it': Top Qatari official in a special interview with ⁦Haaretz.com⁩’s ⁦jonathan lis⁩ haaretz.com/israel-news/20…

Amnesty warns US coalition to do more to protect Mosul civilians ft.com/content/e6fc6f… via @ft

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Biden can reduce civilian casualties during US drone strikes. Here’s how.

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“In January, Lloyd Austin, the secretary of defense, ordered the military to develop a Civilian Harm Mitigation and Response Action Plan. In addition to integrating recommendations from studies previously (…)”

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mwi.westpoint.edu/how-to-avoid-c…

US airstrikes killed at least 22,000 civilians since 9/11, analysis finds

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For two decades the US has carried out strikes with no accountability

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