Instapundit - Blog Archive - WAR ON ISRAEL, WAR ON THE WEST

There has never been a lower civilian to combatant casualty ratio in any major anti-terrorism operation in modern history than in Israel’s recent action against Hezbollah. - by David Bernstein

In fact, it’s not even close. 

Yet all the “international law scholars” and grifters who were previously claiming that Israeli anti-terrorism actions were indiscriminate or put too many civilians at risk are still complaining, inventing new rules so they can that Israel was still acting illegally. 

• The (ever-shifting) legal standards they want to apply would mean that no counter-terrorism operation is lawful, ever. 
• And in fact, that’s what the far leftists who dominate international law discourse want–to leave the West defenseless against terrorism. 
• The plan is to use Israel, which is relatively weak and isolated diplomatically, as precedent, and then use those precedents against the US, NATO, and any other Western actor seeking to counter Islamic State, Al Qaeda, or any other terrorist group.