Rise of ISIS by Jay Sekulow

Author:Jay Sekulow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Howard Books

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A terrible and hidden reality of both America’s and Israel’s wars is that hundreds of soldiers have fallen, killed by terrorists, because they were being cautious with civilian lives.

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So, why then does the U.N. and much of the international left try to turn American and Israeli soldiers into war criminals? Why do they claim that Americans or Israelis are responsible for civilian deaths when it is the terrorists who strike from schools, hospitals, and mosques, often while using women and children as human shields?

The answer is relatively simple: The U.N. and international left often want to see terrorists prevail. They want Israel and America to take terrible losses, to withdraw, and to accommodate terrorist demands. So they wage “lawfare.”

A good definition of lawfare is the abuse of international law and legal processes to accomplish military objectives that can’t be accomplished on the battlefield. Can’t beat the IDF? Use the International Criminal Court to tie its hands, restricting its operations until terrorist forces have the upper hand. Can’t stop American attacks on al-Qaeda? Use the U.N. to try to declare its drone strikes unlawful, placing America in a terrible bind: either risk boots on the ground or let terrorists plot and plan in safety and security.

At the ACLJ we’ve confronted this “lawfare” directly. After the 2008 Gaza war (called “Operation Cast Lead”), Palestinian officials attempted to charge Israel with war crimes in the International Criminal Court, a tribunal typically reserved for the worst war criminals in the world. Yet Israel’s alleged “crimes” were nothing of the sort. Indeed, Israel’s protective measures (including sending text messages or phone calls to civilian areas in danger of air strikes) far exceed even America’s.

After a multiyear effort, which included multiple oral interventions at the ICC, we succeeded in persuading the ICC to drop the case. Unfortunately, however, the left never admits defeat. It just tries again.

So Israel once again faces international condemnation and investigation for military tactics that are more conservative than America’s. If Israeli soldiers are judged to be war criminals, then so will our own men and women in uniform, and the terrorists will have won a dramatic victory without ever winning a battle.

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