The authorities in the illegal Jewish settlement of Beitar Illit, which is built on stolen Palestinian land, regularly open their sewage tanks on to the farmlands of the Palestinian village of Wadi Fuqeen, ruining crops, contaminating the water table and posing a serious health threat to villagers.
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ISRAELI LAW PREVENTS ME FROM CALLING THE EXTERMINATION OF AN ENTIRE PALESTINIAN FAMILY A ‘NAZI ACT’ OF AGGRESSION « Desertpeace
It is forbidden by law in Israel to call somebody a nazi or call any government action a nazi action. Is there any other way to describe the brutal elimination of an entire family in occupied Palestine by the Israeli Air Force…. as they slept in their beds at home? Rather than stopping such crimes against humanity, they make it a crime to compare it to a war crime of the nazis…Forbidden as I am, as an Israeli citizen, to use such words, I will allow my friend Khalid Amayreh, who is a Palestinian, describe the situation and use the ‘n’ word that I’m not allowed to use…..
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Amanecer :: US double standards and hypocrisy in the United Nations
Israel´s war crimes are the result of the hypocrisy of the international community and the total alignment of the US government with the Zionist state. This US policy grants the Israelis permission to kill Palestinian people and destroy its legitimate rights by means of an oppressive economic and military siege. Whenever Israel commits a massacre, the US typical and cynical response is that Israel has the right “to defend itself”. Thus, Washington throws the blame on victims, that is, the Palestinians. Actually, it is the Palestinians who have the right to defend themselves as their struggle is a legitimate reaction to the illegal Israeli occupation.
The Shameful Hypocrisy of HRW: An open letter from Palestinian human rights organizations
Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, Al-Mezan Center for Human Rights, and Addameer Prisoners’ Support and Human Rights Association “When Human Rights Watch equates aggressor with the aggrieved”
3 December 2006 Three Palestinian human rights organizations PCHR, Al-Mezan, and Addameer sent the attached letter to Ms. Sarah Leah Whitson Middle East Director of Human Rights Watch in response to HRW position against Palestinian civilians exercising their right of peaceful, unarmed resistance against the illegal demolition of their homes by Israeli occupation forces. The letter expressed rejection of HRW’s position in this issue, and exposed the inconsistencies, contradictions, and misinterpretation of international law.
The letter text is:
Ms. Sarah Leah Whitson,
HRW Middle East Director
Subject: Equating Aggressor and Aggrieved
Dear Ms. Whitson,
We are writing to you to express our reservations on the HRW news item of 22 November 2006 entitled: “OPT: Civilians Must Not Be Used to Shield Homes Against Military Attacks,” discussing HRWs position on Palestinian civilians acting against the destruction of civilian homes by Israeli forces in Gaza.
The HRW news item is self-contradictory and full of inconsistencies. While pointing that Israeli army destruction of civilian homes is illegal in the absence of concrete evidence indicating that these homes are legitimate military targets, HRW claims that unarmed civilian protest and action against these illegal Israeli activities is a “war crime” The published news item failed to label illegal action by an occupying power as war crimes, while doing so with regards to the reaction of the civilian victims of these crimes.
HRW equated the coercion and detention at gunpoint by the Israeli army of Palestinian human shields in their homes during military incursions with the voluntary, unarmed protests and resistance by Palestinian civilians against the illegal destruction of civilian property.
HRW failed to mention that the Israeli army uses US-made air-to-surface missiles fired by fighter jets at densely-populated areas. All strikes in these population centers have caused damage to nearby houses. Thus, civilians gathered to protest against targeted houses are in effect defending their own homes, which will be damaged when the targeted homes are destroyed.
The news item praises the Israeli army for calling off two strikes, while not condemning the Israeli army for the killing of two women when, in the same circumstances, the Israeli army fired at an unarmed civilian protest.
The HRW statement failed to prove or disprove the guilt of innocent civilians living in the targeted houses. Are all the inhabitants guilty to a degree that they must suffer homelessness, refuge, and the destruction of their houses and property?
In a 2-page statement, HRW failed to point even once to the fact that Israeli forces are an occupying power in international law; thus failing to point to the real context of the events in question.
We regret that the HRW news item in question smells of politicized, selective human rights advocacy. Over the past three weeks, HRW has failed to condemn any Israeli human rights violations, many of which are more grievous that the alleged “war crime” perpetrated by Palestinians. By protesting the destruction of their homes, Palestinians have not killed any Israeli civilian; whereas the praised restraint of the Israeli army killed 15 civilians over the same period.
US assails UN rights forum probe into Israeli Gaza attack
AFP via Yahoo! News
WASHINGTON (AFP) - The United States denounced the UN Human Rights Council for holding a special session on the recent Israeli shelling of homes in the Gaza strip that left 18 Palestinians dead.
Meeting in Geneva, the council voted to send an urgent fact-finding mission to the site of the attack in the Gaza town of Beit Hanun.
State Department deputy spokesman Tom Casey complained that Wednesday’s session was the third time in less than six months that the UN rights body convened a session addressing only Israel and advancing “an imbalanced view of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.”
This comes only days after the following…
US vetoes UN draft condemning Israel’s Gaza onslaught
AFP via Yahoo! News
by Gerard Aziakou Sat Nov 11, 5:58 PM ET
UNITED NATIONS (AFP) - The United States vetoed an Arab-sponsored draft resolution in the UN Security Council that would have condemned Israel’s deadly attack in the Gaza Strip, calling the text “unbalanced” and “biased.”
“The draft doesn’t display an even-handed characterization of the recent events in Gaza,” US Ambassador John Bolton said, referring to what Israel said was an accidental shelling that killed 19 Palestinian civilians, mostly women and children, in the the Gaza town of Beit Hanun.
“We are disturbed at the language of the resolution that is in many places biased against Israel and politically motivated,” he added. “Such language does not further the cause of peace and its unacceptability to the United States in previous resolutions is well known.”
As one of the council’s five permanent members along with Britain, China, France and Russia, the United States has veto power which it has now used 82 times, often to shield Israel from censure.
Its previous use of the veto was in July to block a Qatari-sponsored draft resolution that would have condemned Israel’s military onslaught in Gaza as “disproportionate force” and would have demanded a halt to Israeli operations in the territory.
Recently the Iranians were quoted as saying that Mossad is behind these beheadings in Iraq, reason being that they want anarchy - as though that isn’t happening already.
They would like to see a break-up of the country which the Zionists believe is, and will form, the “Greater Israel”. Funnily enough there was a program on DM Digital, which is primarly a UK-based entertainment channel for British Pakistanis, and there was a Councillor from up North (I forget where exactly) and he was showing a map of Greater Israel and he was pointing out that they (the Zionists) have designs on Balochistan (for those of you that don’t know, that is Pakistan) because that has a lot of oil and gas reserves.
I know everyone wants to live in peace but until people are exposed for what they really are that will be just a fantasy, and we need to wake up to what multinational co’s have planned for this world.
I think we all know that AMERICA is on its final legs, the whooping its getting in Iraq and Afganistan.
The USA is doing the job for the so-called “extremists” who are causing daily attacks on Coalition forces which if you don’t know already the yanks helped train and finance.
I could go on and on but I will call it a day. Thanks for reading this.
Zionists seek to silence critics of US policy toward Israel
Prominent Zionist groups and individuals in the US are conducting a campaign of intimidation against liberal and left-wing critics of the Israeli regime and Washington’s policy toward Israel.
This issue no longer seems to be frontpage news in the mainstream media any longer.
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