Fledermaus
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On the contrary. It is because I know what happened there and what the hotel was used as that I made the case that it was a war crime and not terrorism. Pretty obvious but apparently not to you.
I gave the distinctions to you about why and how things should be defined in an ongoing armed conflict wrt the actions of some Palestinian factions and have applied it to the letter here when defining this action. It's called being consistant instead of being a partisan hack.
The King David Hotel was both a military headquarters AND the civil administrative centre for the British Mandate governernment . IE it was a dual use building and as such any attack on it would certainly kill a large number of civilians, as was confirmed by the status of victims of the attack itself. The Jewish faction responsible could have attacked the annexe of the hotel housing the military police of the British Mandate forces thus ensuring predominantly military casualties but it didn't.
Out of those killed ,91, only 13 were soldiers and 3 police which leaves 75 dead civilians. If Hamas had blown up a bus in Tel Aviv that was parked next to a army check point killing 16 soldiers and 75 civilians and claimed the target was the soldiers you would refer to it as terrorism and I would class it as a war crime for the indiscriminate nature of it . IE if you state the target was the soldiers but the nature of the attack was obviously going to kill many many more civilians you cannot claim that the miltary advantage could justify the deaths of civilian casualties.
Likewise, if PIJ attacked the Knesset , the Israeli government hub, it would be an attack solely on a civil building with civilians working there and would be a terrorist attack.
In short , once again because it doesn't seem to be sinking in
An attack on a military target by forces is legitimate
An attack on a military target that is understood to present an unjustifiably risk to civilians counts as a war crime
An attack on a civilian building is a war crime and attacks for the sole intent to kill civilains in a civilian building is terrorism
The King David Hotel attack , because of the usage of that building and what was attacked by th Jewish group clearly counts as the attack with the known result that mostly civilians will be killed even if you claim to be attacking the military target. Thus it is a war crime because it was prosecuted within the context of an armed conflict.
So , yes , you are defending a war crime committed against the British by a Jewish group that ,at that time , also engaged in genuine terrorist attacks. Now that this has been established the glaring double standards you show ALL of the time here are laid bare once again.
BTW I don't " cheer " the deaths of people in a war. You will find that coming more from the hopelessly biased partisan hacks here such as yourself
If Hamas were to attack the Knesset
Thus had the attack
Hmmm
Legitimate military target. But a "war crime" to attack it.
You may wish to reread the bits about "war crime".
And.... For all that typing you left off one thing that stands out against most other claimed terrorist actions of the times.
If you are so well read. I can only conclude it was an intentional omision.