Since there's a diary recommending just that on the Recommended list.
We've heard that collective punishment is not okay when one side's elected officials choose to attack civilians (Hamas).
We've heard it numerous times.
It's collective punishment! It's wrong!
Yet a diary recommending the same when it comes to Israel's elected officials doing the same thing (with the caveat that the kill ratio shows a ?
That makes the Rec List.
Please explain (diary fleshed out some in the Body)
Update: If you fail to read keirdubois diary, the Lizard People will get you.
Actually, my reading of the Geneva convention says that neither one is collective punishment, because both sides are nationals of a party to the conflict.
Anyway, from Wikipedia:
Collective punishment is the punishment of a group of people as a result of the behaviour of one or more other individuals or groups. The punished group may often have no direct association with the other individuals or groups, or direct control over their actions. In times of war and armed conflict, collective punishment has resulted in atrocities, and is a violation of the laws of war and the Geneva Conventions. Historically, occupying powers have used collective punishment to retaliate against and deter attacks on their forces by resistance movements (e.g. by destroying whole villages where attacks have taken place).
Amnesty International calls the blockade collective punishment
Israel's blocking of all fuel supplies to Gaza was condemned as collective punishment today as Amnesty International warned of an emerging public health emergency in the territory.
Amnesty International is calling for an immediate lifting of the fuel blockade and of other restrictions that have been preventing entry or exit of people and goods from the Israeli-occupied territory.
Sanctions (in regards to Iraq called collective punishment)
Pierre Haski said in left-of-center Liberation (11/20): "In Washington as in Paris, everyone is convinced that the next time Saddam Hussein triggers a crisis he will not be spared.... Instead
of waiting for his next faux-pas, we should use this period to try and get out of this vicious circle of antagonism between the United States and Iraq. Saddam Hussein is making a mistake if he believes he has the upper hand in a tug-of-war with the United States. Washington on the other hand is wrong to think it can trigger a credible opposition to the Iraqi regime.... The solution resides in something Saddam Hussein has not yet wanted to test: pushing the logic of the disarmament imposed by the UN to the extreme...and putting the United States in the impossible position of continuing with an embargo which has become a collective punishment.... The ball is in Saddam's court."
So, the question would be:
Are sanctions collective punishment?