…Since the mid-19th century as well, a code of conduct has been written and agreed to whose basic principle is that all is not (!) fair in war, especially when it comes to unarmed civilian noncombatants who must be protected to the extent possible. Ergo, the Geneva Conventions and the very concept of a war crimes.

Versus the Arab-Muslim world of Ms. Bouattia’s heritage where war between nations has never really existed. The history of Araby is a history not of nations but tribes and religious sects and communities. History is absent records of wars between Algerians and Tunisians next door, because until the French invented the lines around these two states, they did not exist. There were the few, walled port cities along the North African Coast, but the interior was just tribes, so that to this very day, in the year 2016, the fighting going on in Libya remains tribal. Since Gaddafi’s death, there has been no national state, just tribesmen contending for power.

This is Ms. Bouattia’s heritage and as such she remains very tribal in her thinking. When tribes fight, there are no rules of war leading to war crimes. The clash is not between uniformed soldiers fighting uniformed soldiers but tribesmen for whom war is an expanded family feud, family blood feud in which no distinction is made between civilians and soldiers. It is people against people, and it is legitimate, for example, to enter the home of a pregnant Jewess and stab her to death ion from of her children. War is killing and counter-killing of the enemy people. In Ms. Bouattia’s Arab-Muslim universe, there is nothing wrong with this kind of behavior…