Sunday, June 12, 2005
Targeting civilians for forty years
From Michael B. Oren's Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East, regarding Jordan's military planning:
Did Amnesty International propose the prosecution of King Hussein for war crimes?
But the army was not content with merely holding its line. Anticipating victory, military planners revived Operation Tariq (after the famed eighth-century Arab General, Tariq ibn Siyad, for whom Gibralter is named), an old plan for cutting off Jewish Jerusalem and using it as leverage against any Israeli conquests in the West Bank. With the opening of battle, a four-pronged assault would be launched on Israeli positions north and south of Jerusalem -- on Mount Scopus, Government House ridge, and around the Latrun corridor. Jordanian forces were to "destroy all buildings and kill everyone present" in these areas, including civilians. (pp. 161-162.)
Did Amnesty International propose the prosecution of King Hussein for war crimes?
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