"Fiery Netanyahu says no Israelis will face war crime trials; Calls UN report on Gaza Strip ‘distorted’" by Josef Federman, Associated Press | October 13, 2009
JERUSALEM - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday vowed never to allow Israeli leaders or soldiers to stand trial on war crimes charges over their actions during last winter’s military offensive in the Gaza Strip, furiously denouncing a UN report in a keynote address to parliament.
Netanyahu’s fiery rhetoric - and his decision to open the high-profile speech with remarks on the report - reflected the deep distress felt among Israeli leaders after a UN commission accused Israel of intentionally harming civilians when it launched a massive attack in Gaza to stop years of rocket fire.
Yeah, except ONCE AGAIN that is a DISTORTED LIE from my Zionist *(letter rhymes with ay)ewspaper!
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--"Yeah, HAMAS WAS and STILL IS observing a UNILATERAL TRUCE!
See: A War Criminal Government
How many times do you see THAT TRUTH in the PAPER, huh?
“This distorted report, written by this distorted committee, undermines Israel’s right to defend itself. This report encourages terrorism and threatens peace,’’ Netanyahu said in his address at the opening of parliament’s winter session. “Israel will not take risks for peace if it can’t defend itself.’’
Just even reading the words makes one ill.
Related: War Criminals' Whine
The UN report, compiled by a team led by former war crimes prosecutor Richard Goldstone, accused both Israel and Hamas of war crimes and possible crimes against humanity.
Yeah, except IN HAMAS' CASE they found NO EVIDENCE!!!
It specifically accused Israel of using disproportionate force, deliberately targeting civilians and destroying civilian infrastructure, and using people as human shields....
And THEY DID EVERY SINGLE ONE -- and ALSO USED WMD which is SOMEHOW FUZZED OVER here?
Related:
"Israeli use of white phosphorus 'undeniable': Amnesty AMNESTY International has said that Israel's use during the Gaza offensive of white phosphorus — banned under international law for use near civilians — was "clear and undeniable". Also watch: VIDEO
Depleted uranium found in Gaza victims
Proof Israel Has Used White Phosphorus in Gaza
Israel Admits It Used White Phosphorus in Gaza
Gaza Doctors Struggling With WMD Victims
Israel admits troops may have used phosphorus shells in Gaza
And NOT the FIRST set of WAR CRIMES, either!
FLASHBACK: Israel and the Bomblets
Israel and White Phosphorous
FLASHBACK - Israel Drops White Phosphorus Bombs, Littlest Victims Suffer
FLASHBACK - Israeli crimes against humanity: Gruesome images of charred and mutilated bodies following Israeli air strikes
Looks to me like they accomplished a lot -- the WAR CRIMINAL BASTARDS!!
Update: One-Day Wonder: Lebanon's Cluster F***
Confronting the war criminal Ehud Olmert at the University of Chicago (again, and again, and again)
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Israeli officials across the board have condemned the report, saying their country had little choice but to take harsh action against militants who were terrorizing southern Israel.
Yeah, POOR WITTLE WAR-CRIMINAL ISWAEL!!!
This is WHY people DESPISE NEWSPAPERS NOW!
This UNMITIGATED BIAS in favor of the GENOCIDAL NaZionist state!
They also blame Hamas for civilian casualties, saying the Islamic militant group took cover in residential areas during the fighting. However, Goldstone’s strong credentials as a respected South African jurist, his Jewish faith, and past support for Israeli causes have made it hard for Israel to dismiss the claims.
Awwwwwwwww, poor wittle Iswael!!!!
Netanyahu angrily noted the report’s portrayal of Israeli leaders as war criminals. “The truth is exactly the opposite. Israel’s leaders and its army are those who defended the citizens of Israel from war criminals,’’ he said, before vowing to defend the country’s wartime leaders.
So WHEN is the NEXT FALSE FLAG ATTACK, Bibi?
“We will not allow Ehud Olmert, Tzipi Livni, and Ehud Barak, who sent our sons to war, to arrive at the international court in the Hague,’’ he said.
Translation: WE ARE ABOVE the LAW!!!!
Yeah, the Hague is ONLY FOR TIN-POT BLACK AFRICANS who DID WESTERN BIDDING or for POOR WHITES like Serbs who DEFIED GLOBALISTS!
While Netanyahu has repeatedly lashed out at the UN report, yesterday’s comments appeared to be a direct response to a new Palestinian push for a vote on the report in the UN’s Human Rights Council....
Earlier this month, Abbas’s government agreed to delay the vote for six months. That decision, which came under heavy US pressure, sparked sharp criticism and protests across Palestinian society, particularly from the rival Hamas government in the Gaza Strip.
Related: The End of Abass
Palestinians Need New President
UN spokeswoman Michele Montas said yesterday that Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon spoke with Abbas Sunday about the matter and said he would support Abbas’s proposal to reopen discussion of the Goldstone report at the Human Rights Council in Geneva.
Whatever, tool.
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"Palestinians urge Israeli punishment over Gaza" by Edith M. Lederer, Associated Press Writer | October 14, 2009
UNITED NATIONS --The Palestinians called Wednesday for global action to punish Israel for alleged war crimes during its military assault on Gaza last winter, warning that the credibility of the United Nations and international human rights law was at stake.
Told you.
The demand was based on the findings of a commission headed by former South African judge Richard Goldstone. Israel immediately rejected the commission's report that accused both Israeli forces and Palestinian militants of war crimes and possible crimes against humanity during their Dec. 27-Jan. 18 war, calling it "one-sided, biased and therefore wrong."
The report became the focus of the Security Council's monthly Mideast meeting on Wednesday after an about-face by the Palestinians.
Well, ONE SECTION of them, anyway.
Palestinian Foreign Minister Riad Al-Malki and Israel's U.N. Ambassador Gabriela Shalev opened the council meeting -- which is expected to hear from more than 40 speakers -- by trading accusations about the Goldstone report.
The U.N. Human Rights Council commissioned the report and took it up in early October, but Palestinian diplomats agreed to delay consideration until March under heavy pressure from the United States. The U.S. feared it would jeopardize attempts to revive the Mideast peace process...
Pfft! It's done more to hurt them than you even know!
Yup, those are the brainiacs running this puppet administration down in DC.
The Goldstone report concluded that Israel used disproportionate force, deliberately targeted civilians, used Palestinians as human shields, and destroyed civilian infrastructure during its incursion into Gaza to root out Palestinian rocket squads.
Yeah, well, you know about the rockets and the truce, so they can take a high hard one there.
Yup, NOTHING ABOUT WMD again!
It accused Palestinian armed groups of deliberately targeting civilians and trying to spread terror through its rocket attacks on southern Israel. Hamas, the Palestinian Authority's main rival, controls Gaza and most armed groups in the territory.
Yup, even though it FOUND NO EVIDENCE of that!
Al-Malki said "the savage Israeli military aggression" exhibited "a callous disregard for human life" and deliberately destroyed thousands of homes, schools, mosques and industrial and agricultural facilities.
After HAVING the PLACE UNDER SIEGE for THREE YEARS -- so much so that Gaza has been described as the world's LARGEST OUTDOOR CONCENTRATION CAMP!
He called the report "another wake-up call to the international community that must not be ignored," adding that "the credibility and foundations of international human rights and humanitarian law, as well as of the U.N. as a whole, is at stake."
YUP -- and the GLOBE YANKED THIS from their WEBSITE in favor of this NYT TRASH!
Israel's Shalev countered that the report "favors and legitimizes terrorism."
He (my printed paper says She) insisted that "it denies Israel's right to defend its citizens. ... It permits terrorists to victimize civilians, target the innocent, and use as human shields those it claims to defend."
Yup, ALL THINGS ISRAEL DID!!!!!!
Yup, CONSTANTLY PROJECTING THEIR CRIMES onto the INNOCENT!!
And INTERESTING that THESE NEXT PARAGRAPH is CUT from my PRINT PIECE, huh?
She accused the world of "doing nothing" about Hamas' smuggling of Iranian arms into Gaza, its launching of attacks from schools, mosques and hospitals, or its firing if 12,000 rockets against innocent Israeli civilians. And she accused Libya -- the only Arab member on the council -- of trying to "hijack" its agenda by raising the Goldstone report, noting that three weeks ago Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi called the Security Council a "terror council."
Oh, THAT SURE IS CHUTZPAH, isn't it?
They are SOMETHING ELSE, that tribe!!!!!!
The MORE YOU WHINE with LIES and DISTORTIONS, war criminals, and the MORE STRIDENT and OUTRAGEOUS your claims, the MORE GUILTY YOU LOOK!!
Also related: Crazy Khadafy
Now BACK TO OUR PRINTED PAPER COPY:
The report recommended that the Security Council require both sides to carry out credible investigations within three months into alleged abuses during the conflict -- in which 13 Israelis and almost 1,400 Palestinians, including hundreds of civilians, were killed -- and to follow that up with action in their courts. If either side refuses, the investigators recommended that the Security Council refer the evidence for prosecution by the International Criminal Court, the world's first permanent war crimes tribunal, within six months....
And that's where my newspaper ends it.
So what did the Globe lop off?
But council diplomats say there is little chance that the Security Council will take any action, primarily because of objections by the United States, Israel's closest ally....
Translation: The UNITED STATES will SHIELD ISRAELI WAR CRIMINALS!!
And the WORLD is WATCHING!!!!!!!
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GENEVA - The UN’s top human rights official backed a report yesterday accusing both Israeli forces and Palestinian militants of war crimes during their conflict in Gaza last winter.
Navi Pillay’s endorsement of the report by a group led by Judge Richard Goldstone came as Israel warned the UN Human Rights Council that approving the document risked undermining Middle East peace....
They just THREATEN ANYONE they DAMN WELL PLEASE, huh?
I can't imagine ANYONE ELSE in the WORLD getting away with SUCH LIP and NOT BE CRITICIZED by the Zionist AmeriKan *(rhymes with ay)ewspapers, can you?
The 575-page report concluded that Israel used disproportionate force, deliberately targeted civilians, used Palestinians as human shields, and destroyed civilian infrastructure during its Dec. 27-Jan. 18 incursion into the Gaza Strip to root out Palestinian rocket squads.
Cut and paste job, 'ey, AP? Strange considering all the stuff I see that then disappears forever. No wonder the journalism is such s***.
It accused Palestinian armed groups including Hamas of deliberately targeting civilians and trying to spread terror through rocket attacks on southern Israel.
But it found NO EVIDENCE of that, but what is it Hitler said about repeating a lie, MSM?
Almost 1,400 Palestinians and 13 Israelis were killed during the three-week conflict....
But RAINING DOWN WMD and ALL the OTHER WAR CRIMES ISRAEL DID are NEVER TERROR in the Zionist AmeriKan *(rhymes with ay)ewspaper, notice that?
Israeli Ambassador Aharon Leshno-Yaar called the Goldstone report “biased and flawed,’’ and said a vote endorsing the document “will set back hopes for peace.’’ He accused the council, which has a history of passing resolutions critical of the Jewish state, of using the report for more “Israel-bashing.’’
And DESERVED!
The United States has taken a similar view that excessive attention to the report and alleged crimes in the Gaza war could hamper peace efforts. “We stand at an important moment, and must all be mindful of the larger context of ongoing efforts to restart permanent status negotiations that would lead to the creation of a Palestinian state’’ said US diplomat Douglas M. Griffiths.
That FLUSHING SOUND YOU JUST HEARD was US CREDIBILITY going down the TOILET!
But Pillay, the UN high commissioner for human rights, said holding war criminals accountable and respect for human rights “are not obstacles to peace, but rather the preconditions on which trust and, ultimately, a durable peace can be built.’’
And WE KNOW WHO wants to, has, and will BLOCK PEACE at ANY MOMENT!
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GENEVA - The UN Human Rights Council voted yesterday to endorse a Gaza war crimes report that calls on Israel and Hamas to carry out credible investigations into alleged abuses - or face possible referral to international war crimes prosecutors.
The move - which was opposed by six nations, including the United States - means Israel could find itself facing a request at the UN Security Council to refer the case to prosecutors at the International Criminal Court in The Hague, a move Washington is likely to block.
Still, yesterday’s decision could have far-reaching implications for the way the global body deals with war crimes allegations, specialists said. It also keeps attention on the report, compiled by a panel chaired by respected South African jurist Richard Goldstone, just as President Obama tries to restart the Middle East peace process. Nearly 1,400 Palestinians and 13 Israelis were killed during the Dec. 27-Jan. 18 conflict.
The 575-page document concluded that Israel employed disproportionate force, deliberately targeted civilians, used Palestinians as human shields, and destroyed civilian infrastructure during its incursion into the Gaza Strip to root out Palestinian rocket squads.
But no WMD, MSM?
It also accused Palestinian armed groups including Hamas, which controls Gaza, of deliberately targeting civilians and trying to spread terror through years of rocket attacks on southern Israel.
Even though there is no evidence.
And HOW HARD can these AP FLAKS be WORKING?
This is ALL RE-PASTED GARBAGE!!!
The report recommends that the 15-member Security Council require both sides to show within six months that they are carrying out independent and impartial investigations into alleged abuses. If they are not, the matter should be referred to prosecutors at the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands, the report says.
In order to be adopted, a UN Security Council resolution must get nine yes votes, and not be vetoed by a permanent member. The US is likely to use its veto to block any call to get the International Criminal Court involved in the dispute over Gaza or to take action against Israel.
“Politically, this will die in the Security Council,’’ said David M. Crane, an international law professor at Syracuse University and former prosecutor of the Sierra Leone tribunal, which indicted Charles Taylor, a former president of Liberia.
Yeah, and WHEN RUSSIA and CHINA VETO SANCTIONS against IRAN and the US COMPLAINS they will look like the TOTAL ASSHOLES THEY ARE!
There had better not be ONE PEEP from the STINK-ASS UN REPS from the US!!!
“Ultimately what is going to be done about the report is going to be a political decision and not a legal and procedural one,’’ Crane said. “In fact, I think that we will see more of these, and I’m not saying that’s a bad thing.’’
M. Cherif Bassiouni, a professor of Law at DePaul University College of Law in Chicago and one of the driving forces behind the creation of the International Criminal Court, said that, whatever happens to the report, the decision by the Rights Council has already set a precedent.
“If it sends the report to the Security Council, to the secretary general, and to the General Assembly, it is sending it not for general informational purposes but for action,’’ he said.
Arab and African countries will probably point to any US efforts to block referral to the international court as an example of double standards, because it was Western countries that referred President Omar al-Bashir of Sudan to the International Criminal Court in March for alleged crimes against humanity and war crimes, said Bassiouni.
Yeah, I TOLD YOU!
WAR CRIMES TRIALS are ONLY FOR AFRICANS and POOR WHITE!!
I mean, LOOK who is IN CHARGE of the COURTS!?
Think you will EVER SEE BLIAR or BUSH there?
In Washington, Ian Kelly, State Department spokesman, told reporters the resolution had “an unbalanced focus and we’re concerned that it will exacerbate polarization and divisiveness.’’
He then promptly stuck his head up Israel's ass.
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Related: "Zionism: The Dead End of the Oppressor
Zionism is the ideology that dispossessed the Palestinians of their traditional territory. It is the ideology that nuclearized the Middle East. It is the ideology whose lobby gained inordinate sway over the world superpower through manipulating the US electoral process (former BBC and ITN correspondent Alan Hart says Jewish Americans account for three percent or less of the US population but nearly 50 percent of campaign funds; result: Americans have a choice between two pro-Zionist parties). It is the ideology that foments instability and wars in the Middle East. Perhaps, most importantly, Zionism is an ideology that attacks the heart and soul of justice and humanity. It is an attack that, on some level, affects all people.
That is why it MUST END!
