Any color as long as its black

I was reminded of Henry Ford's famous saying today when I read about the sad case of Doron Almog. He is an Israeli general and he was visiting Britain to raise funds for a charity for severely disabled children. Unfortunately, some busybody jackasses in Britain thought it would be a lot of fun to indict him for war crimes on the charges that he bulldozed houses hiding terrorist smuggling tunnels and (unbelievably) for a bomb that killed Salah Shehadeh the militry head of Hamas and 14 other terrorists with him. But don't worry says International law expert James Crawford "Israel has the right to defend itself, even in occupied territory". That is as long as they don't bulldoze homes ("war crimes"), build a defensive wall ("apartheid") do careful border controls ("economic genocide") send soldiers into the territories to find terrorists (real "genocide") or even aparrently just drop a single bomb from afar that just kills terrorists. So as Henry Ford would say, Israel has the right to defend itself as long as it doesn't do anything that would actually be effective.

(hat tip: Jewlicious)