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Good suggestion at the end. The only problem is that international law already proscribes the punishment for not wearing a military uniform in battle, and it is summary execution.

The issue with summary executing all fighters is that it discourages surrender. That said Israel should and probably will hang most of the Hamas fighters who surrendered on October 7th.

At the present moment there is a tension in international military law. Namely there are two streams international military law, the classical and the newer international humanitarian law.

International military law allows Israel to pretty much glass Gaza for Hamas fighting the way it is. International humanitarian law is a leftist method of tying the hands of stronger combatants to attempt to basically outlaw war.

At the present moment every single international body is constituted of International humanitarian law activist leftists who’s goal it is to outlaw war.

I recently took an international military law and ethics course at Cornell Law. It was taught by a retired Jag officer who converted to Catholicism. It was one of the only actually interesting courses I took in law school, but it was still too leftist. The one thing I took away from the entire course was that the international military, like all avenues of law everywhere in the world, went off the rails into the 1960s.

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