- cross-posted to:
- technology@lemmit.online
- cross-posted to:
- technology@lemmit.online
Web Summit CEO Paddy Cosgrave steps down in wake of controversy over his Israel comments::Paddy Cosgrave said his “personal comments have become a distraction from the event, and our team, our sponsors, our startups and the people who attend.”
yeah but right now a lot of people yelling war crimes and want Israel condemned for them before they even declared as warcrimes…
just look at the hospital incident and how quick everybody was with hate, insults and condemnation after the Hamas reported about it.
not every collateral damage is a war crime, although it’s always a tragedy. But please also don’t forget that storing military equipment near hospitals or using civilian facilities as place of operation for military activities could (!) also be a war crime itself.
Collective punishment is a war crime.
Amnesty International says Israel is committing collective punishment in Gaza.
Israel is committing collective punishment in West Bank, too.
Everything you said is valid… but to me, it doesn’t really apply to this specific context. As far as I could see (admittedly I did only skim the article) but the general statement he made did not mention any specifics. I think it’s unfair to take a broad statement such as condemning war crimes, and to rebut it by saying well a lot of other people are calling this one specific instance a war crime when it hasn’t yet been proven.
By whom exactly?
Tell me you know nothing about the law of international armed conflict without telling me you know nothing about the law of international armed conflict.
This is also not how war crimes work. “They started it” is for the playground.