Zvi Hollander

Curmudgeon

[Zvi Hollander @ZviHollander]

@FanaticsSupport I did that

[Dave Rich @daverich1]

I’d say this is shocking but it just confirms what we’ve been saying for the past two years: these protests are a magnet for antisemites, who march alongside MPs, trade unions, NGOs and the rest. That’s what normalising antisemitism looks like.

[Zvika Klein צביקה קליין @ZvikaKlein]

'Never again is today.'

Page 1 of Monday’s Jerusalem Post shows hostage Evyatar David-668 days in Gaza, ribs like prison bars, forced to dig his own grave.

Hamas starves him while the world looks away.

We dedicated a special editorial on this urgent matter.
Please share. 🇮🇱🙏

[Zvi Hollander @ZviHollander]

@InternetH0F @grok @grok can you do me?

[The Persian Jewess @persianjewess]

Flood the internet:

[Zvi Hollander @ZviHollander]

@pepboysauto I have emailed

[Zvi Hollander @ZviHollander]

My favorite Super Bowl commercial is the one without Tom Brady.

[Zvi Hollander @ZviHollander]

@DBashIdeas Bezrat Hashem the injured’s brother, will be here soon. His father, Boruch Hashem, is still alive and was overjoyed to hear his son was on the mend.

[Ballabon @ballabon]

Received from a friend.

[Zvi Hollander @ZviHollander]

@AmericanAirwinf @DansDeals Is that seriously your reply? This is someone reporting an incident that occurred to others, as news, and your response isn’t to respond to the allegations but ask for a claim submission. If @CNN were to write an article about this, would you reply and ask for a claim submission?

[Eli Manning @EliManning]

I thought about attending the Roast of Tom Brady last night, but I did not want to Roast him for a 3rd time!!

[Three Year Letterman @3YearLetterman]

We have LSU students chanting at Hamas Glampers that they have zero SEC championships

No matter how long I live, I won’t top this https://t.co/eX7TtHiGjY

[Zvi Hollander @ZviHollander]

@kkaplan @ProfDBernstein You’ve got a typo in the website address, I believe.

[Jonathan Allen ✡️ @jonathanallen44]

Today: @HillaryClinton calls out protests at @Columbia.

“You just have to ask yourself, how you could have an event on using rape as a tactic of war against women and girls…and you include the most recent horrendous example out of Israel—and that brings out the protestors.”

[Zvi Hollander @ZviHollander]

@kkaplan Oslo accord

[Zvi Hollander @ZviHollander]

@NJTRANSIT_NBUS Stop 13696, traveling to NY, it was initially supposed to arrive around 8:29, but actually drove past around 8:38 or so.

[Zvi Hollander @ZviHollander]

@NJTRANSIT @NJTRANSIT_NBUS bus 21360 (167Q) just drove past my stop with multiple people standing and waiving for it at the correct stop.

[Raylan Givens @JewishWarrior13]

A few days ago, Khaled Mashal, a senior member of Hamas who is hiding in Turkey, gave this interview and that's what he said:

“For anyone who supports a two-state solution, we want ONE state. We will have no choice but to accept the two-state solution temporarily so we can prepare for the big war; we will not accept any compromises; we demand a state from the border with Lebanon to the border with Egypt.”

Here you go, he said it clearly (like we didn't know): the destruction of the state of Israel and the extermination of all Jews in Israel. Beleve them when they tell you who they are and their plan. Biden and Blinken are total idiots @Shoshana51728 @SeanDurns

[Zvi Hollander @ZviHollander]

James at the @Nike Outlet in Paramus gave great service. Too bad you didn’t have my size in many pairs but he went above and beyond to help. Kudos to your staff.

[Hillel Neuer @HillelNeuer]

Must-read speech on the legality of Israel's fight against Hamas, delivered in 🇬🇧 House of Lords yesterday by Lord Guglielmo Verdirame KC, professor and barrister in public international law:

“There has been a lot of talk about proportionality in the law on self-defence. I refer to the words that the noble Lord, Lord Pannick, used a few days ago on the test of proportionality. It does not mean that the defensive force has to be equal to the force used in the armed attack. Proportionality means that you can use force that is proportionate to the defensive objective, which is to stop, to repel and to prevent further attacks.

Israel has described its war aims as the destruction of Hamas’s capability. From a legal perspective, these war aims are consistent with proportionality in the law of self-defence, given what Hamas says it does and what Hamas has done and continues to do.

Asking a state that is acting in self-defence to agree to a ceasefire before its lawful defensive objectives have been met is, in effect, asking that state to stop defending itself. For such calls to be reasonable and credible, they must be accompanied by a concrete proposal setting out how Israel’s legitimate defensive goals against Hamas will be met through other means. It is not an answer to say that Israel has to conclude a peace treaty, because Hamas is not interested in a peace treaty.

Proportionality also applies in the law that governs the conduct of hostilities, not only in self-defence. The law of armed conflict requires that in every attack posing a risk to civilian life, that risk must not be excessive in relation to the military advantage that is anticipated.

That rule does not mean, even when scrupulously observed, that civilians will not tragically lose their lives in an armed conflict. The law of armed conflict, at its best, can mitigate the horrors of war but it cannot eliminate them.

The great challenge in this conflict is that Hamas is the kind of belligerent that cynically exploits these rules by putting civilians under its control at risk and even using them to seek immunity for its military operations, military equipment and military personnel. An analysis of the application of the rules on proportionality in targeting in this conflict must always begin with this fact.

There has also been some discussion about siege warfare. The UK manual of the law of armed conflict, reflecting the Government’s official legal position—it is a Ministry of Defence document—says:

“Siege is a legitimate method of warfare … It would be unlawful to besiege an undefended town since it could be occupied without resistance”.

Gaza is not an undefended town. It is true that obligations apply to the besieging forces when civilians are caught within the area that is being encircled, and those obligations include agreeing to the passage of humanitarian relief by third parties. But it is not correct to say that encircling an area with civilians in it is not permitted by the laws of war.

A further point that concerns the laws of war is also of particular relevance to the British Government’s practice. It has already been mentioned that the Government have taken the view that Gaza remains under Israeli occupation, even though Israel pulled out in 2005.

The traditional view until 2005 was that occupation required physical presence in the territory. That view is consistent with Article 42 of the Hague regulations of 1907, which states that a territory is occupied when it is actually placed under the authority of the occupying power.

Again, it is also the view taken by the UK manual of the law of armed conflict, which reflects the UK’s official legal position and states that occupation ceases as soon as the occupying power evacuates the area. The European Court of Human Rights, in its jurisprudence, has also adopted a similar approach to occupation.

So I have always been rather baffled by the British Government’s position on this issue, which, as far as I know, has not changed. Yes, it is true that Israel has exercised significant control over the airspace and in the maritime areas, but even as a matter of plain geography it takes two—Israel and Egypt —to control the land access points to Gaza.

More fundamentally, it is Hamas that has been responsible for the government and administration of Gaza. I appreciate that this is a legal matter on which the Minister may not want to respond immediately but it is an important one, because the legal fiction that Israel was still the occupying power under the laws of armed conflict has been relentlessly exploited by Hamas to blame Israel for everything, while using the effective control that it has over the territory, the people and the resources to wage war.

On a final note, I would like to say something briefly on the way in which the war is being reported. When a serious allegation is made, particularly one that could constitute a war crime, the immediate response of the law-abiding belligerent will be to say, “We are investigating”.

The non-law-abiding belligerent, by contrast, will forthwith blame the other side and even provide surprisingly precise casualty figures. The duty to investigate is one of the most important ones in armed conflict.

What happened in the way in which the strike on the hospital was reported is that the side that professes no interest whatever in complying with the laws of armed conflict was rewarded with the headlines that it was seeking.”