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3 Months of Devastation in Gaza for This: Stalemate

January 8, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

Ruins of a home bombed by Israel in Gaza. (B'Tselem)

Three months after the current conflict began, civilians have borne the brunt of the violence on both sides, with the deaths of more than 22,000 Palestinians in Gaza and 1,200 Israelis. Some 85% of Gazans have also been displaced and a quarter of the population is facing a famine, according to the United Nations. The conflict still has a long way to run and may be headed towards stalemate.

#JeSuisCharlie Went Viral 9 Years Ago. It Couldn’t Happen Today.

January 7, 2024 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

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The immense popularity of #JeSuisCharlie is a prime example of how the technology available to us can shape our understanding of shared experiences. The hashtag #JeSuisCharlie capitalised on these. It was widely adopted by those defending free expression, but a flurry of counter-narratives quickly emerged providing alternative perspectives on the attack.

For Supreme Court, a ‘Monumental’ Decision on Donald Trump’s Ballot Eligibility

January 6, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 20 Comments

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Momentous questions for the U.S. Supreme Court and momentous consequences for the country are likely now that the court has announced it will decide whether former president and current presidential candidate Donald Trump is eligible to appear on the Colorado ballot.

School Board and Other Elected Officials Could Soon Be Barred from Censoring People on Social Media

January 5, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

A California couple sued two school board members who blocked them on Facebook after they made critical remarks.

At stake is what constitutes state action – or action taken in an official governmental capacity – on social media. Under the First Amendment, officials engaging in state action cannot restrict individuals’ freedom of speech and expression. The ruling could establish whether social media accounts of public officials should be treated as personal or governmental.

The Generosity and Warmth of Poet Seamus Heaney

January 4, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

Seamus Heaney in 1982. He died in 2013.

The English war poet Wilfred Owen once wrote, “Celebrity is the last infirmity I desire.” Killed in France at the age of 25, unpublished and unknown, “celebrity” for Owen was a posthumous phenomenon. By contrast, celebrity status for the Irish poet Seamus Heaney – “Famous Seamus” – came early in his life.

A Note To My Grandson

January 4, 2024 | Pierre Tristam | 21 Comments

Felix at T plus a few minutes after 7 Phoenix time this morning, 9 a.m. Palm Coast time.

Well dear Felix, this is the day chosen for you–as so much has been since before your conception, as almost everything will be for the next dozen years, as most things will be after that–to be born into this, not quite our world: you arrived as scheduled a little after 7 this morning, your time.

How Religion and Politics Will Mix in 2024

January 3, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

Attendees at evangelist Franklin Graham’s ‘Decision America’ tour in Turlock, Calif., in 2018. The tour was to encourage Christians to vote.

Religion is likely to play a big role in voters’ choices in the 2024 presidential election – much as it did in previous years. Despite an overall shift away from participation in organized religion in the U.S. populace, religious rhetoric in the political arena has intensified with end-times rhetoric, talk of divine mandates and the intersection of white supremacy and Christian nationalism.

Will Biden’s Ego Bring Trump Back to the White House?

January 2, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

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Is Biden’s evergreen ego — his scrappy Scranton Joe determination — outpacing his ability to win a tough election, much less govern a bitterly divided country until 2029? Will there be dire consequences because the man who had been yearning to be president since he was 46 resists giving up the job at 81? Should he have stepped aside for someone younger?

How Simone de Beauvoir, Hannah Arendt, Simone Weil and Ayn Rand Changed Our World

January 1, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

Simone de Beauvoir is more enduring and profound than Sartre. (Wikimedia Commons)

Wolfram Eilenberger’s “The Visionaries” is a wild ride through ten of the worst years in the 20th century, and is told through the occasionally intersecting lives of four brilliant young women philosophers: Simone de Beauvoir and Simone Weil (both French), Russian-American Ayn Rand, and German-Jewish Hannah Arendt, who spent time exiled in France and New York.

A Colorado Justice’s Dissent on Insurrectionists Signals Trouble or Democracy

January 1, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 29 Comments

The Colorado Supreme Court building. (Wikimedia Commons)

Chief Justice Brian Boatright’s opinion in the Colorado Supreme Court case excluding Donald Trump from the ballot encapsulates a misunderstanding of — or refusal to accept — Section 3 of the 14th Amendment even among some of the nation’s highest ranking jurists, and it reflects the unfolding failure of U.S. institutions to sustain constitutional order in the face of an existential threat.

Visiting a Museum Could Be the Secret to a Healthier Life

December 31, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

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A Canadian medical association launched the museum prescriptions program in 2018. The project has enabled thousands of patients to get a doctor’s prescription to visit a museum, either on their own or accompanied. The aim of the prescription was to promote the recovery and well-being of patients with chronic illnesses (hypertension, diabetes), neurological conditions, cognitive disorders or mental health problems. The decision to write the prescription was left to the discretion of the doctor.

Can We Still Find Common Ground?

December 31, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 24 Comments

Americans and others, unlabeled. (© FlaglerLive)

Many Americans today worry that our nation is losing its national identity. Some claim loudly that the core of that identity requires better policing of our borders and preventing other races or religions or ethnicities from supplanting white Christian America. But that is not what defines our national identity. It’s the ideals we share, the good we hold in common.

Five Movies to Better Understand the Climate Crisis

December 30, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

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The holiday season is, for many, a time for cherished rituals and down time, including watching movies like It’s a Wonderful Life, Elf or Die Hard. But this season is also a time for reflection on our lives and the world around us beset by conflict — and the worsening climate crisis. Here are five film recommendations to help combine ritual and reflection.

You Must Switch Off From Work. Here’s How.

December 29, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

An office at 401 Seventh Avenue (West 32nd Street - West 33rd Street) in 1920. (NYPL collection)

It may not be enough simply to be physically away from work, particularly in an era when so many of us work from home. We also have to stop thinking about work when we’re not there – whether it’s fretting over your to-do list while out at dinner, thinking about your unanswered emails while you’re at your daughter’s soccer game, or lying in bed pondering what you’ll say at tomorrow’s board meeting.

Can the Economy Continue to Avoid a Recession in 2024?

December 28, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

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The fundamentals are strong and may be on the rise, if you believe chief financial officers. Plus, despite dysfunction in Washington, recent laws and policies like the CHIPS and Science Act, the bipartisan infrastructure deal, the AI Bill of Rights and the Executive Order on Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Use of Artificial Intelligence could further boost economic growth by stimulating job creation and enhancing competitiveness.

Migrants Ace Their Citizenship Tests Routinely. Could You?

December 28, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 13 Comments

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At least 9 out of 10 applicants for legal immigration routinely pass a rigorous citizenship test, but an alarmingly high percentage of native-born Americans experience difficulty listing the three branches of government (“Lather, rinse, repeat?”) or remembering the name of their state legislator.

The Curious Joy of Being Wrong

December 27, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

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The death of the author’s brother shattered his deeply held evangelical beliefs. This deep loss started a period of questioning in light of the evidence of the author’s experience, leading him to revise his worldview in a way that felt authentic. He changed his mind about a lot things.

Blessings for LGBTQ+ Couples: Pope Francis’s Historic Gesture

December 26, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

Heidi and Jamie Bell, who married in 2016, kiss and show the V for Victory sign near Dave Richards, a vacationer from Ohio who decided to hold up a quote from Romans for much of the event. He was briefly joined by a congregant from a local church who said she shared his cause. (© FlaglerLive)

Pope Francis’ Dec. 18, 2023, announcement that Catholic priests may bless LGBTQ+ couples and others in “irregular” situations marks a definitive shift in the Roman Catholic Church’s posture toward many types of loving relationships. It may also mark a definitive turning point within the Roman Catholic Church.

My Father’s Crèche

December 26, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

New Year's in Beirut, January 1, 1975. (© Fouad Haddad)

Taking down Christmas decorations can be difficult when they serve as buffers to memories as painful to remember as one is grateful not to have forgotten them, especially as we age: my father has been dead nearly 50 years, but that chasm of time disappears in the still-vivid hammer sounds of the crèche he built us every Christmas, and the joys of my mother’s New Year’s Day parties before lives became war zones.

St. Francis and the Nativity Scene’s Nativity

December 25, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

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Francis in 1223 sought permission from Pope Honorious III to do something “for the kindling of devotion” to the birth of Christ. As part of his preparations, Francis “made ready a manger, and bade hay, together with an ox and an ass,” in the small Italian town of Greccio.

Here’s Why, Scientifically Speaking, Sloppy Gift-Wrapping Is Better

December 24, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

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Consumers in the U.S. spend billions of dollars a year on wrapping gifts, in most cases to make their presents look as good as possible. But beautiful presentation doesn’t lead to a better-liked gift. A study showed that those who received a sloppily wrapped gift liked their present significantly more than those who received a neatly wrapped gift, regardless of what was inside. Yay for the sloppy!

Night of the Pies: Christmas Eve, 1967

December 24, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 17 Comments

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My after-school job my senior year of high school was in a bakery attached to a supermarket in my home town, a sort of Jurassic Publix setup. On the night before Christmas Eve, we had orders for a little over 400 pies. The baker asked if I would work with him through the night and, needing the money for my college fund, being locked in an empty supermarket to bake 400 pies for twelve hours at overtime rates seemed like a wonderful idea.

Trump Claims Constitution Gives Him Immunity. Judges May Not Agree.

December 23, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 26 Comments

Donald Trump continues to campaign for president even as he faces multiple criminal indictments.

Former President Donald Trump has claimed he is immune from prosecution – specifically on the federal charges that he tried to subvert the results of the 2020 presidential election. He says that his actions in connection with the 2020 election were part of his official duties, and he also argues that because he was not convicted during either of his impeachments, he cannot be tried in a criminal court for his actions.

Grief and the Holidays

December 22, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

In the post-pandemic world, many people are facing the holidays without their loved ones by their side.

The holidays negatively affect many people’s mental health as the holidays for many are stark reminders of grief and of whom – or what – they have lost. About 10% of bereaved adults are at risk of prolonged grief disorder, and those rates appear to have increased in the aftermath of the pandemic.

America’s Obsession with Evil: ‘The Exorcist’ at 50

December 21, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

"The Exorcist" grossed nearly $450 million worldwide.

In the 50 years since “The Exorcist” premiered, the cultural fascination with Satan has persisted. But as religiosity has waned, popular portrayals of Satan have also changed. Rather than embody pure evil, Luciferian characters that are complicated – even likable – have emerged.

A Constitutional Scholar Explains Colorado Court’s Trump Ballot Ban

December 20, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 26 Comments

On Jan. 6, 2021, then-President Donald Trump exhorted followers to object to the results of the 2020 presidential election.

Taken as a whole, the structure of Section 3 of the 14th Amendment leads to the conclusion that Donald Trump is one of those past or present government officials who by violating his oath of allegiance to the constitutional rules has forfeited his right to present and future office.

Guadalcanal Memories: Remembering the Mosquito Bowl on Christmas Eve, 1944

December 19, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

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No football game ever played, or ever to be played, will exceed the drama surrounding the Mosquito Bowl, played on insect-infested Guadalcanal in 1944. The 4th and 29th U.S. Marine Corp regiments faced off before their next stop, Okinawa.

Why Did This Bottle of Whiskey Sell for $2.7 Million?

December 18, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

In November 2023, a bottle of Macallan Scotch whisky fetched the highest price of all time for a bottle of wine or spirits.

Some investors see luxury collectibles, such as high-end whiskey bottles or casks, as an alternative to other assets like stocks and bonds. But the high price may also have a lot to do with the increasing focus on the purported authenticity of craft products – especially ones like Scotch whisky, which trade on their heritage as much as their flavor.

Trump Borrows Hitler Language in Anti-Immigration Speech in New Hampshire

December 18, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 11 Comments

Trump against the wall. (White House)

Trump, the front-runner for the Republican nomination for president in next year’s election, said that immigrants were “poisoning the blood of our country.” He pledged to toughen immigration laws, including by reinstating a travel ban from “terror-plagued countries” and requiring “strong ideological screening” for immigrants in the country without authorization. Hitler used similar language about Jews “poison[ing] the blood of others,” in “Mein Kampf,” his 1925 manifesto.

Populism Is Undermining Our Elections

December 17, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 13 Comments

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At the heart of liberal democracy lies the principle of pluralism, that there are diverse views on how society should work and that numerous institutions operate independently to balance competing interests. For this principle to work, it’s important that the public trust that these diverse voices act in good faith. Populism undermines that trust.

An Affair to Dismember: The Tawdriness of Florida’s GOP Chair and His Moms for Liberty Phony

December 17, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 12 Comments

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Republicans cast themselves as the party of piety, traditional gender roles, and family values. This is at odds with reality. Florida GOP chairman Christian Ziegler is accused of rape. His wife Bridget, co-founder of Moms for Liberty and member of the Sarasota School Board who has vowed to bring “religious values” to education, also admits to having an affair with her. Gov. Ron DeSantis had said he wished he could put a Bridget Ziegler on every school board “in every county in Florida.”

‘American Fiction’: Who Gets to Decide Blackness?

December 16, 2023 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Jeffrey Wright stars in ‘American Fiction,’ a satirical film which raises questions about race and commodity and diversity. (Orion)

Directed by Cord Jefferson and starring Jeffrey Wright, the film presents an opportunity to talk about race, power and white supremacy within intellectual and cultural spaces, including higher education. Specifically, what version of Blackness is acceptable or saleable within American culture?

When Trump Says He’ll be a Dictator, Believe Him

December 16, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 21 Comments

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The twice-impeached Trump has made it clear he is still seething about being voted out during the 2020 election. The emotions Trump harbors toward his Republican rivals are volcanic levels of seething anger. His dictatorial impulses–and ambitions–have to be taken seriously.

Sandra Day O’Connor’s Civics Lesson

December 15, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

Beyond her trailblazing role as the first woman appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court, Justice Sandra Day O’Connor considered iCivics – a civics education nonprofit founded after she retired from the court – to be her “most important legacy.”

Why Big Box Chain Stores Are Fleeing Cities

December 14, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

That empty feeling: A mall in Elyria, Ohio. (© FlaglerLive)

Closures have spread to many suburbs and small towns. Retailers saddled with high debt, overexpansion, shoplifting losses, slumping sales and online competition are shedding stores fast. The reason: Low-income urban households remain in crisis, with high rents and inflation driving up the cost of essentials. Urban chains clustered too many of their own branches close together or too near other chains. And shoplifting has scared away executives.

The Immoral Gamble of ‘Shopping’ for Health Insurance

December 14, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 38 Comments

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Between high premiums, deductibles, co-pays, co-insurance, other out-of-pocket costs, and the enduring myth that Americans still get to choose their own doctor, health insurance has become a maze of forced costs and limited options based on impossible choices you shouldn’t have to make. Obamacare has failed. Private insurance is often an overpriced, over-subsidized racket. Medicare alone remains the only viable solution with universal application.

As Always, Israel Ignores US Appeals to Minimize Casualties in Gaza

December 13, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

Some of the children killed in Israeli bombings in Gaza, in a set of images posted by B'Tselem, the Israeli human rights agency.

Their continued widespread bombing has raised the death toll in Gaza, according to the Hamas-run Health Ministry, to 18,600. And the growing tension between Biden and Israel’s leader, Benjamin Netanyahu, broke into the open on Dec. 12. Biden warned Israel that it is “losing support” over the war.

The Minefield of College Free Speech Codes

December 12, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

Harvard President Claudine Gay, University of Pennsylvania then-President Elizabeth Magill and MIT President Sally Kornbluth testify before Congress on Dec. 5, 2023.

Private colleges and universities have speech codes that allow them to punish certain speech. But in their testimony before Congress about antisemitism on their campuses, college presidents tripped, triggered a furor over their prevarications. and one of them resigned after failing to respond clearly to a simple question.

Exile Ridley Scott’s Napoleon to St. Helena

December 11, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

The 1802 Battle of Crête-à-Pierrot was part of Napoléon’s effort to retake Haiti − then known as Saint-Domingue − and reestablish slavery in the colony.

As with every other Napoléon movie, Scott’s version will leave viewers with no understanding of the genocidal war to restore slavery that Bonaparte waged against Black revolutionaries in the French colony of Saint-Domingue – what’s known as Haiti today. It’s like making a movie about Hitler without mentioning the Holocaust.

Achieving Our Country According to Norman Lear

December 10, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

Producer Norman Lear on the set of his hit TV series ‘All In The Family,’ standing between its stars, Jean Stapleton and Carroll O'Connor.

Even Americans who strongly disagree with each other may find common ground when they watch the same TV shows and movies, especially those that make us laugh or cry.
Norman Lear, who died on Dec. 5, 2023, at 101, created television shows that did just that.

The Wheels Are Falling Off the Ronbo Bus

December 10, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 23 Comments

It's just not going well. (© FlaglerLive via CNN)

Ron DeSantis has decided to show how tough he is, going on the offensive not against Moscow but against a peaceable nation of pink buildings, blue seas, and Black people, wooing voters in Iowa and New Hampshire by hollering, “Like, if the Bahamas were firing rockets into Fort Lauderdale, like, we would not accept that for, like, one minute. I mean, we would just level it.”

Here’s How Social Media Disinformation Gets You

December 9, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Disinformation campaigns use emotional and rhetorical tricks to try to get you to share propaganda and falsehoods.

Disinformation is deliberately generated misleading content disseminated for selfish or malicious purposes. Unlike misinformation, which may be shared unwittingly or with good intentions, disinformation aims to foment distrust, destabilize institutions, discredit good intentions, defame opponents and delegitimize sources of knowledge such as science and journalism.

The End of the Republican Party

December 9, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 17 Comments

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Talk of political parties facing impending doom is nothing new. Similar rhetoric was levied toward the Democratic Party in the mid-1980s after it had endured consecutive losses at the presidential level, including a massive 49-state rout in 1984. But the Republican Party seems to be engaging in a level of infighting and dysfunction that has even the most cynical observers stepping back and taking notice.

Conservatives’ ‘Anti-Woke’ Alternative to Disney

December 8, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

Daily Wire co-CEO Caleb Robinson, co-CEO Jeremy Boreing and editor emeritus Ben Shapiro attend the red carpet premiere of ‘Lady Ballers’ on Nov. 29, 2023, in Nashville, Tenn.

U.S. conservatives are using action films, dramas and even kids’ cartoons to build their own alternative entertainment industry, one shielded from the alleged liberal biases of Hollywood. The most prominent recent efforts are two streaming entertainment platforms from right-wing pundit Ben Shapiro and “Lady Ballers” star Jeremy Boreing. But conservatives have a spottier record when it comes to entertainment, whether it’s feature films, pop songs or kids’ shows.

A Poisoned Tree Grows in St. Augustine

December 7, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 21 Comments

Vergilio Aguilar Mendez, in a still from body cam footage, on a sidewalk at the Super 8 motel where he was staying last May.

An 18-year-old migrant faces an aggravated manslaughter charge for the death by heart attack of the sheriff’s deputy who arrested him on a resisting charge, while the migrant was on a sidewalk eating dinner and speaking to his mother by phone at his motel in St. Augustine. The death of the deputy was a tragedy. The charge against the migrant compounds it with a miscarriage of justice in the making.

The Deeply Rooted Biases Biases Behind Transgender Athlete Bans

December 7, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

A California teacher takes part in a demonstration in September 2023 to support the rights of transgender people.

In 2023, 24 states had laws or regulations in place prohibiting transgender students from participating on public school athletic teams consistent with their gender identity. These bans mean that a person whose sex assigned at birth was male but who identifies as a girl or woman cannot play on a girls or women’s athletic team at a public school in that state. State-level politics and public biases against transgender people are largely to blame.

Taylor Swift, Influencer of the Year

December 6, 2023 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

That’s a lot of potential voters behind Swift at her Denver concert on July 14, 2023.

Even before Taylor Swift was named “Person Of The Year” by Time magazine, politicians courted Swiftie voters. The idea that Swifties might be a key demographic in future elections is not far-fetched given their location and age. A majority of Swift’s fans live in the suburbs, the swing territory of American politics. Further, most are Gen Zers or Millennials. These groups encompass an increasing share of the electorate with each passing year.

Hate Crimes Are Up, But Charges and Convictions Are a Challenge

December 6, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

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Hate crimes and hate murders are rising across the U.S., but long-term polling data suggests that most Americans are horrified by bias-motivated violence. They also support hate crime legislation, an effort to deter such attacks. Yet police and state attorneys often resist the quick classification of incidents as a hate crime.

The Benefits of Not Arresting Students Over Most School-Based Incidents

December 4, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

A change in policy means more Philly students are staying in school and out of the legal system.

School-based arrests are one part of the school-to-prison pipeline, through which students – especially Black and Latine students and those with disabilities – are pushed out of their schools and into the legal system. Getting caught up in the legal system has been linked to negative health, social and academic outcomes, as well as increased risk for future arrest.

Need It Even Be Said? A Military Ethicist Explains Why All Civilian Lives Matter Equally.

December 3, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

The scene in the Bureij refugee camp following an Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip on Nov. 14, 2023.

As of Nov. 25, according to health officials in the Gaza Strip, more than 14,000 Palestinians have been killed, the majority of whom are women and children. International humanitarian law prohibits direct attacks on civilians and wounded and surrendered soldiers and on civilian objects such as schools, religious centers and hospitals and other civilian infrastructure. There are exceptions. Israel is not abiding by either.

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