On Thursday, Rep. Randy Fine (R-FL) appeared to suggest that Gaza should be “nuked” like Japan was during World War II in response to the shooting in Washington DC that killed two Israeli embassy staffers.

The congressman was asked [in an interview on Fox News if the shooting should change the course of Israel’s onslaught on Gaza. “Well, I think it speaks to the importance of the only end of the conflict is the complete and total surrender by those who support Muslim terror,” Fine replied.

“In World War II, we did not negotiate a surrender with the Nazis, we did not negotiate a surrender with the Japanese. We nuked the Japanese twice in order to get unconditional surrender, that needs to be the same here,” Fine added.

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    7 hours ago

    Collective punishment is a war crime.
    Indiscriminate use of force is a war crime.
    Disproportionate use of force is a war crime.

    He’s openly calling for war crimes. Send him to The Hague.

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      3 hours ago

      Unfortunately, back in the Bush years, a little while before the second gulf war, they passed a bill to invade the Hague if Americans got tried there. Folks will have to seek justice through other channels.

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        41 minutes ago

        That would require soldiers to willingly invade the Hague.

        I don’t think the US military would do it.