“Public Relations People In The United States … Handle These Matters For Us”
Professor of International Law at the University of Illinois, Champaign, Francis Boyle – responsible for drafting the Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989, the American implementing legislation for the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention, with a Doctor of Law Magna Cum Laude as well as a Ph.D. in Political Science, both from Harvard University – says:
I spoke with the head military lawyer for the IDF, Joel Zinger. And I said … “It’s clear you people are inflicting Nuremberg crimes on the Palestinians. Exactly what the Nazis did to the Jews. What’s your explanation?”
He said: “Military necessity.”
Notice, he didn’t disagree with me.
I said: “That argument was rejected at Nuremberg when the lawyers for the Nazis made it.”
And then he said: “Well, we have public relations people in the United States … and they handle these matters for us.”
Indeed:
- It is clear that Israel is committing war crimes
- Amnesty says that Israel is an occupying power in Palestine, and thus must abide by the laws governing occupation
- Israel has violated more UN resolutions than any other country