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Israel wants law of war changed after damning UN Gaza report
Now that is chutzpah!
"Israel firm in opposing report on war crimes" by Josef Federman, Associated Press | October 21, 2009
JERUSALEM - Israel hardened its opposition yesterday to international calls for an independent inquiry into its fierce offensive against Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip last winter, saying it would urge the United States to prevent the issue from advancing at the United Nations.
Yessa, massa'!
The decision came at a special Cabinet meeting called to discuss a United Nations report....
Defense Minister Ehud Barak, a fierce critic of the report, blocked a planned discussion yesterday on whether to launch an investigation. “There is no need for a committee of inquiry,’’ said Barak, according to a statement from his office.
Translation: We know we are guilty.
The UN report, overseen by respected South African jurist Richard Goldstone, has created an uproar in Israel.... But Goldstone’s credentials as a former war crimes prosecutor in the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, his Jewish faith, and his close ties to Israel have made it hard for Israel to ignore his findings.
Yeah, poor Iswael!
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Of course, it is OKAY to talk about ISRAELI WAR CRIMES if you are Jewish!
Brandeis University said yesterday that it will host a forum next month with South African Judge Richard Goldstone, the author of a fiercely controversial United Nations fact-finding report that accused Israeli forces as well as Palestinian fighters of committing war crimes in Gaza.
Nothing controversial about it. See: War Criminals' Whine
In what is sure to be a heated debate, Goldstone will discuss his report for the first time with a senior Israeli political figure. Dore Gold, former Israeli ambassador to the United Nations, will respond to Goldstone in the forum and then both will take questions from the audience.
Goldstone’s appearance is certain to generate discussion within Boston’s Jewish community, given the role of Brandeis as the premier Jewish university in the country and Israel’s angry rejection of the report as deeply biased against Israel and flawed in its mandate and execution. The United States has joined Israel in dismissing the report, which was submitted last month to the UN Human Rights Council and was endorsed by the council last week.
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So sayeth the Boston Globe, and now you know why.
That special supremacism again.
The dispute over the report has become so heated that it threatens to disrupt attempts to revive peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians. Under US pressure, the Palestinian government at first agreed not to press for the UN Security Council to take up the report, but after a domestic outcry, reversed its stance. Some Palestinian analysts, in turn, have accused Israel of trying to exploit the controversy to fend off growing US demands for concessions.
The report covers the three weeks of the Israeli incursion into the Gaza Strip in December and January, which Israel said was necessary to halt fighters from the Hamas faction in Gaza from firing rockets into civilian areas.
Try INVASION!
And ONCE AGAIN we must COUNTER the LIE:
The removed Israeli government graph: 'Monthly distribution of rockets hits.'
On the 4th November, the day when Americans were watching the results of the Presidential election, the Israeli army broke the ceasefire by raiding the strip.
--MORE--"More than 1,000 Palestinians were killed in air strikes and ground operations before the Israelis pulled back.
Well, it was OVER 1,400 and STILL COUNTING due to the SIEGE, but this is STANDARD for the pro-Zionist Globe.
Israel argued that Hamas fighters hid behind civilians, actions that are themselves a war crime, making civilian casualties unavoidable.
WhereTF were they supposed to go?
The fact-finding report focused most of its criticism on Israel, saying the battle plan ensured that civilians would be targeted and that civilian infrastructure was deliberately attacked....
The Goldstone-Gold forum on Nov. 5 will be cohosted by the university’s International Center for Ethics, Justice, and Public Life and by the Schusterman Center for Israel Studies. Goldstone, a South African Jew, is a prominent jurist who has taken part in numerous international tribunals as a prosecutor. Professor Daniel Terris, the director of the ethics center, said that he has worked closely with Goldstone for a decade in his role as a member of the center’s advisory board and that “he has a longstanding reputation for integrity and courage.’’
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Several leaders of Boston-area Jewish organizations said that while they were highly critical of the Goldstone report, they respected the university’s role as a venue for airing different views and fostering debate.
If it wasn't being held at a Jewish university they would be squealing!
Rob Leikind, head of the American Jewish Committee’s Boston office, said, “It’s pretty clear at this point that the Goldstone report has been co-opted by nations and groups that are committed to delegitimizing the state of Israel....’’
Israel has delegitimized itself with its actions.
Nancy Kaufman - executive director of the Jewish Community Relations Council, the umbrella group for Jewish organizations - said Goldstone was “coming into the lion’s den in some respects. He knows this is of concern to the Jewish community,’’ she said. “I actually applaud Brandeis.’’
Nadav Tamir, the Israeli consul general in New England, said, “it’s the job of universities to have debates; I have nothing against that. But I’m very worried about the report.’’
You SHOULD BE!
YOUR NATION COMMITTED ABOMINABLE ATROCITIES and WAR CRIMES, sir!
Also see: Zionists Can't Handle the Truth
Brandeis did not provide details on the time or venue for the forum on Nov. 5.
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