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The Moral Equality of Combatants:
All combatants have the same rights and are bound by the same restrictions.
The rules of jus in bello apply “without any adverse distinction based on the nature or origin of the armed conflict or on the causes espoused by or attributed to the Parties to the conflict” Additional Protocol 1 to the Geneva Conventions.

Why think that all combatants have the right to attack combatants on the other side, regardless of whether their war is just?
“our right not to be attacked … is lost by those who bear arms … because they pose a danger to other people” Michael Walzer.

“Allied soldiers landing on the shores of Normandy during World War II were fighting against genocide and imperialist expansion; their adversaries were defending those iniquitous ends.
Why should the Allies lose their rights, only by doing what they are clearly morally permitted, perhaps even required, to do?” Seth Lazar “Evaluating the Revisionist Critique of Just War Theory”