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Perfidy is an act of deliberate treachery or deception.
The word can also refer to a feigned attempt to surrender, done to take advantage of enemies during wartime. In this context, perfidy is defined as a war crime by the Geneva Convention. Look up surrender in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... A war crime is a punishable offense, under international (criminal) law, for violations of the law of war by any person or persons, military or civilian. ... The Geneva Conventions consist of treaties formulated in Geneva, Switzerland that set the standards for international law for humanitarian concerns. ...
To a large extent, this existential threat to Israel is made worse by the always-deliberate insertion of terrorist personnel and assets in the midst of civilian populations.
It follows that perfidious deception by Islamic terrorists adds a distinctly second layer of illegality to the first.
In the future, perfidious violations of the laws of war by any of the ongoing regional insurgencies could involve the placement of chemical, biological or even nuclear weapons and infrastructures in various Islamic towns and cities, giving rise to very dramatic escalations of violence.
Perfidy is making someone believe a falsehood, while betrayal involves an act that actually harms the person.
Other examples of perfidy are feigning to negotiate under a flag of truce or surrender, feigning to be incapacitated by wounds or sickness, and feigning of civilian, noncombatant status.
In the case of the Muslim men of Srebrenica, the textbook definition of perfidy, which is actually extremely narrow, was all too tragically fulfilled.
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