United Nations Special Rapporteur on Palestinian Territories Francesca Albanese claimed that Palestinian Arabs have a right to kill Israeli soldiers in an interview with podcast Makdisi Street, the Washington Free Beacon reported.
In the interview, Albanese said that when terrorist groups that "target civilian objects" commit war crimes, but "if they target military objects, they do not commit war crimes—they are in line with acts of resistance."
"The killing of soldiers, it's, I mean, frankly, it's a tragedy, but it's not a crime," Albanese said. "Instead, very often, when Palestinians manage to attack soldiers, they are portrayed as terrorists. And this is a misunderstanding that needs to be addressed."
She slammed "Western powers" and "Western media" for portraying attacks on Israelis as terrorism, and said that while the Hamas massacre of October 7 must be condemned, "an illegal act of the resistance doesn't delegitimize the resistance itself."
Albanese has been involved in numerous antisemitism scandals since being appointed to her position as Special Rapporteur, including engaging in the antisemitic trope about a nefarious "Jewish lobby." Since the massacre of over 1,200 people on October 7, she has condemned Israel for defending itself and gone as far as to claim that Israel has no right to defend itself.
Less than two months after the massacre, Albanese published a book blaming Israel for the current conflict in which she co-opted the title 'J'Accuse,' the phrase used to call out the antisemitism of the trial of Alfred Dreyfus in 1898,
She has even called a demand that Hamas release the hostages it captured on October 7, which include many civilians and even children and babies, "unacceptable."
While Albanese claimed that Palestinian Arabs have the right to attack Israeli soldiers as long as they do not attack civilians, attacks on Israeli civilians are frequent, and the goal of Hamas and other terrorist organizations is to kill all Jews, regardless of whether they are civilians or soldiers.
3 comments:
Rapporteur is not a reporter as in a newspaper journalist. It means someone who compiles reports of organizational meetings for internal use.
That said, Hamas also has blood lust for Westerners. Wouldn't it be ironic if they kill this foul mouth yenta one day!
The comment is stupid but technically correct - if Hamas and Israel are at war then Hamas terrorists have a right to shoot at Israeli soldiers and kill them.
Where she goes wrong is in saying that Israel has no right to defend itself.
"Hamas terrorists have a right to shoot at Israeli soldiers and kill them"
That is incorrect! Hamas operate as non-soldier "enemy combatants". As they actively engage in many war crimes they lose their right under international law to fire at the IDF. They do not wear uniforms in many cases & hide behind human shields. The reason why the IDF was lured to Gaza to begin with is because Hamas is trying to exterminate civilians.
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