How Many Different Laws Are There?

First we had the violations of international law. And we had war crimes violations (which implies a law of war). Now we have the Red Cross trotting out violations of "humanitarian law" as a way of trying to force Israel to tear down the West Bank Wall.

Funny, but I don't remember having studied about the humanitarian violations of the Berlin Wall. I don't remember reading about the UN General Assembly taking the Soviet Union to the International Court in the Hague to gain a non-binding resolution that the Iron Curtain should come down. So why does this seem that it is just some fabricated appeal to the utopians who believe that the law should exist and is required to be followed, regardless of its existence.

But probably the most offensive part of the whole article was this:

The ICRC said it recognized the right of Israel -- which says the barrier is meant to stop suicide bombers and has already thwarted dozens of attacks -- to take measures to defend the security of its own population.

And ICRC official Balthasar Staehelin said that if the barrier were moved back to the Green Line -- the boundary before Israel seized the West Bank in the 1967 Middle East War -- "that would solve many of the problems as far as we are concerned."

Has this man got no clue? Does he not comprehend the stated goal of most of the terrorist governmental and chartiable organizations over there, to throw the nation of Israel back into the sea? Moving back to the Green Line would solve many of the ICRC's problems, but certainly wouldn't make anything any better for Israel. In fact, it would only serve to make the country less defensible.

Plus, that offer was basically already made by Israel. It was the Palestinians who rejected it. It was the Israelis who have made every serious overture, most of the unilaterally, for peace. It is the Palestinians who keep the human bomb factories running day and night.

The Red Cross is supposed to be a neutral organization, but it is starting to act otherwise. If they are not careful, the ICRC is going to squander their facade of humanitarianism to become nothing more than another politically motivated entity.