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AloeVera

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8. Sham "rubber-stamp" military lawyers that no one listens to anyway.

Wed Sep 17, 2025, 09:54 PM

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I'm glad the truth is finally coming out but it's too late for all the dead and maimed. Of course Israel doesn't "operate within international law" and these lawyers merely provided the fig leaf to claim otherwise. Truly abominable.

However, Halevi denied that legal advice had ever affected his or his immediate subordinates’ military decisions in Gaza or across the Middle East.

“Not once has anyone restricted me. Not once. Not the military AG [advocate general Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi] who, by the way, hasn’t the authority to restrict me,” he said.

In a quote that was not on the recording but was cited by Ynet, Halevi appeared to suggest that the main importance of Israel’s military lawyers was to convince the outside world of the legality of the IDF’s actions.

“There are legal advisers who say: We will know how to defend this legally in the world, and this is very important for the state of Israel"...

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