Shira Anderson, an American international rights lawyer, is Meta’s AI policy chief who voluntarily enlisted for the IDF in 2009 under a program which enables non-Israeli Jews who aren’t eligible for military conscription to join the Israeli army.
With AI a critical emerging technology for tech giants and militaries, Anderson’s role at Meta is an important one. She develops the legal guidance, policies and public relations talking points concerning AI issues and regulation for all of Meta’s key areas, including its product, public policy and government affairs teams.
At Meta, Anderson, who is based in Meta’s Washington DC office, is in familiar company. More than one hundred former Israeli spies and IDF soldiers are employed by the company, my new investigation shows, many of whom worked for Israel’s spy agency Unit 8200.
196 countries signed and ratified all 4 Geneva Conventions, with 174 of them having further ratified the procol I quoted.
Most signatories are not “on board” with Israel ignoring this document, unless you somehow believe Western countries are the only countries to matter. And even then, there are various notable dissenters such as Ireland.
The Geneva Convention absolutely apply to international conflict, otherwise no country would bother with upholding them at least partially.
Why does Israel even fight the ICC instead of simply ignoring it? If it had no impact they could save the attorney resources they are spending. It’s because it very much impacts them in terms of international relations. Every single international treaty relies on trust alone. Become untrustworthy and you will get worse deals.
And it does very much apply to Gaza. The internationally recognized representation of the state of Palestine who claim jurisdiction over Gaza has signed it shortly after becoming a non-member state of the UN. There is no country on this planet who has signed the Geneva Convention but considers Gaza to not be bound by it.
Also, before Hamas even existed, the PLO declared themselves bound by the Geneva Conventions. The only reason they didn’t sign the declaration was because the UN didn’t consider Palestine a state. Hamas has not rescinded this declaration from what I have found.
By the way, there is no “application” for civilian status. Either you are a civilian or you are not. And no one on this planet considers reservists to be soldiers unless they intend to kill civilians. A 100 year old Israeli in a hospital bed would be deserving of execution according to your definition.
The PLO was a failed organization which achieved nothing except recognizing Israel. Showing that abiding by the rules of the occupiers will never end occupation
All combat aged occupiers occupying Palestine are valid military targets.
I would equally not shed a single tear if Ukrainians killed Russian occupiers on Crimea. Once again their only right is to stop being an occupier asap.
Hamas is still the legal successor of the PLO in Gaza though?? Everything the PLO signed/declared is valid in Gaza until Hamas revokes it. That’s literally how succession of states/governments works. There hasn’t been a revolution in Gaza, it has been a (relatively) peaceful transfer of power.
This occurs regardless of what you think of one authority. Governments do not void anything and everything the previous government has done.
It’s utterly insane you consider civilians to deserve death. I will never understand how anyone with a working moral compass can justify killing civilians. People like you are the fuel genocide engines run on.
The PLO is ran by the Mahmoud Abbas. The arch nemesis of Hamas and allies to Israel.
I think it is insane that you consider colonial occupiers as civilans. If someone breaks into your house, kicks you out and then occupies it do you believe that they suddenly gain the right to self defense? These people are without any doubt on stolen land. They are trained as soldiers and when Palestinians excersize their right to regain their stolen land these people will fight them for it.
No people like you are who believe that resistance against genocide is genocide and fail to follow a chronological order and then call every party the same. Like calling the Jews and the Nazis the same.
After WW2 a lot of Nazi settlers in Poland who stole houses from their victims were kicked out. And that was awesome.
Officially according the the Geneva Convention even soldiers are not valid military targets unless they carry a weapons. Nobody follows the Geneva Convention because if they Palestinians would not be locked in a concentration camp right now. But hey the Palestinians have to follow it!
All Israeli colonists of military age are soldiers who will kill Palestinians trying to regain their land. Hamas very specifically avoids killing children.