GIULIANI ADVISOR ADVOCATES WAR CRIMES AGAINST PALESTINIANS

KEN SILVERSTEIN, HARPERS - Daniel Pipes - who has signed on as a foreign policy advisor to Rudy Giuliani's campaign–essentially argued for war crimes against Palestinians, and there was no cry of protest from the media or anywhere else.
"Believing that if you don't win a war, you lose it, I have long encouraged the Israeli government to take more assertive measures in response to attacks," Pipes wrote on his blog on September 6:

"In a Jerusalem Post piece six years ago, "Preventing war: Israel's options," I called for shutting off utilities to the Palestinian Authority as well as a host of other measures, such as permitting no transportation in the PA of people or goods beyond basic necessities, implementing the death penalty against murderers, and razing villages from which attacks are launched. Then and now, such responses have two benefits: First, they send a strong deterrent signal 'Hit us and we will hit you back much harder' thereby reducing the number of attacks in the short term. Second, they impress Palestinians with the Israeli will to survive, and so bring closer their eventual acceptance of the Jewish state."

The Geneva Conventions label collective punishments as a war crime. "No protected person may be punished for an offense he or she has not personally committed," according to Article 33. "Collective penalties and likewise all measures of intimidation or of terrorism are prohibited."