Hamas Attacks Israel: 70 Israelis, 198 Palestinians Dead

[Dill]

(10-10-2023, 07:22 AM)pally Wrote: The war didn’t end until 1945 so I guess in a manner you are correct.  It wasn’t being discussed in 1944.
However,  you need to revisit your post WWII history.  Of course, people were examining how the war came to be and what conditions led to the wholesale massacre of millions of people while seemingly sane human beings turned their heads in denial.

The whole history of the Middle East is complicated.  But we can trace the roots of the current conflicts back to the 1917 Balfour Declaration that stated the support for a Jewish homeland in Palestine, then held by the Ottoman Empire and controlled by the British when the Ottoman Empire was dissolved at the conclusion of WW1.

No. He's dead wrong about that. 

By 1944 Soviet Jurist Aron Trainin had already formulated the legal basis for international prosecution of Nazis for Crimes against peace and genocide.

He is quite well known to international genocide/humanitarian law scholars.
https://publications.hse.ru/en/chapters/412582262
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14623528.2019.1651558

A good discussion of the prep for prosecution of war crimes and genocide, which began in 1942 in the Soviet case,
begins on page 103 here.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1588&context=gsp

The basis of most of the UN resolutions condemning Israel were developed from war crimes documented in WWII
--e.g. use of collective punishment on civilians, unlawful summary detention of non-combatants, annexation of sovereign territory, and more.