GENEVA — A report by three UN-appointed human rights specialists yesterday said Israeli forces violated international law when they raided a Gaza-bound aid flotilla killing nine activists earlier this year.
The UN Human Rights Council’s fact-finding mission concluded that Israel’s naval blockade of the Palestinian territory was unlawful because of the humanitarian crisis there, and described the military raid on the flotilla as brutal and disproportionate.
The Israeli Foreign Ministry responded late yesterday by saying the Human Rights Council, which commissioned the report, had a “biased, politicized, and extremist approach.’’
Wah, wah, wah. Take it somewhere else, a**holes!
Hamas, an Islamic militant group that controls Gaza, meanwhile, praised the report....
As opposed to the Zionist militant group running Israel?
The 56-page document lists a series of alleged crimes committed by Israeli forces during and after the raid, including willful killing and torture, and contends there is “clear evidence to support prosecutions.’’
I'll bet it never ends up in the Hague.
“A series of violations of international law, including international humanitarian and human rights law, were committed by the Israeli forces during the interception of the flotilla and during the detention of passengers in Israel prior to deportation,’’ the specialists found.
The panel concluded that a humanitarian crisis existed in Gaza on the day of the raid and “for this reason alone the blockade is unlawful and cannot be sustained in law.’’
It hasn't been.
Related: Donated Vans Driven From Egypt
Haven't seen a word of it in the Times' bastard stepchild the Boston Globe.
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“The conduct of the Israeli military and other personnel toward the flotilla passengers was not only disproportionate to the occasion but demonstrated levels of totally unnecessary and incredible violence. It betrayed an unacceptable level of brutality,’’ the report said.
Oh, the Israelis specialize in that!
It described the Israeli raid on May 31, in which eight Turkish activists and one Turkish-American were shot and killed, as “clearly unlawful.’’
“The report published today is as biased and as one-sided as the body that has produced it,’’ the Israeli Foreign Ministry said....
Did someone just say something and I missed it?
Israel imposed a blockade on Gaza after Hamas militants violently seized control of the territory from the moderate Palestinian Fatah party in 2007....
ONCE AGAIN the LIE is REPEATED!
Related:
"Hamas overwhelmingly won Palestinian Parliament elections in 2006.... Hamas won Palestinian parliamentary elections in early 2006.... In 2006, Hamas won Palestinian legislative elections"
Yup, the Zionist AmeriKan media KNOWS THEY WON but keeps repeating the same garbage!
Btw, Hamas foiled a COUP ATTEMPT!!!!
Thanks again for the REPEATED OMISSIONS and LIES, AmeriKan media.
Thus they are NOT TO BE BELIEVED on any matter -- especially ALL THINGS ISRAEL!!!
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And you know what?
The SHIPS will NEVER STOP COMING!
It's OVER, you stinking hulk of an apartheid state.
The world's eyes are open, the mask is off, and nothing will stuff that supremacist, war-criminal genie back in its bottle.
"Jewish activists set sail for Gaza" by Associated Press | September 27, 2010
FAMAGUSTA, Cyprus — A boat carrying Jewish activists from Israel, Germany, the United States, and Britain set sail yesterday for Gaza, hoping to breach Israel’s naval blockade there.
May GOD BLESS EACH and EVERY ONE of them!
Richard Kuper, an organizer with the British group Jews for Justice for Palestinians, said one goal is to show that not all Jews support Israeli policies toward Palestinians.
Yeah, we know.
Kuper said the boat, which set sail from northern Cyprus flying a British flag, won’t resist if Israeli authorities try to stop it.
The voyage by the 33-foot catamaran Irene came nearly four months after Israeli commandos boarded a flotilla of Gaza-bound ships, including the Mavi Marmara, killing eight pro-Palestinian Turkish activists and a Turkish American.
Irene passenger Rami Elhanan, an Israeli whose daughter Smadar was killed in a suicide bombing in Jerusalem in 1997, said it was his “moral duty’’ to act in support of Palestinians in Gaza because reconciliation is the surest path to peace.
Not the path Israel has been on; it never has.
Let's face it, the nation itself was founded on terrorism when they drove Palestinians out with ethnic cleansing campaigns.
“Those 1.5 million people in Gaza are victims exactly as I am,’’ Elhanan, 60, said in an interview.
Of one of the most vilest regimes in world history.
Alison Prager, another organizer for Jews for Justice for Palestinians, said many Jews have been on previous “blockade-busting trips’’ to Gaza, but this was the first time Jewish groups have banded together to send a boat of their own.
You know, underneath this article is the unspoken, agenda-pushing Jewish supremacism.
Yes, the Zionist paper only covers other Jews making the trip -- while damn near ignoring everyone else.
In Jerusalem, Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Andy David called the latest protest boat “a provocative joke that isn’t funny.’’
“It’s unfortunate that there are all kinds of organizations involved in provocations that contribute nothing and certainly don’t contribute to any kind of agreement,’’ David said.
Yeah, whatever.
Next!
Yousef Rizka, an official with Hamas, the Islamic militant group that controls Gaza, said: “The government has received Jewish activists arriving to Gaza before. The government positively views all attempts to break the siege on Gaza.’’
Yeah, me, too!!!!
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Of course, they never got through:
"Israel seizes boat carrying Gaza aid" by New York Times | September 29, 2010
TEL AVIV — Israeli naval commandos peacefully commandeered a catamaran yesterday sailed by an international group of Jewish activists trying to break Israel’s blockade on Gaza.
ANOTHER ACT of PIRACY!!
The nine activists — from Israel, the United States, Britain, and Germany, among them an 82-year-old Holocaust survivor — responded defiantly to Israeli naval officers when they hailed them from a frigate, demanding they identify themselves and give their destination.
“We are going to Gaza,’’ the group responded from the deck of the 30-foot catamaran Irene, festooned with peace flags and carrying humanitarian aid, according to a Twitter update posted on its website.
Yeah, a real threat.
The whole episode just discredits the Zionists even more. Scum of the earth, folks.
The Israeli military said in a statement that the vessel was boarded without incident and that “no violence of any kind was used, by neither the passengers onboard nor the Israel naval forces.’’
Isn't taking over the boat a violent act?
What does it matter anyway?
I've learned that EVERYTHING ISRAEL CLAIMS is a DAMN LIE!
The military nicknamed the boat “the Provocation Yacht.’’
Hey, the ranks are filled with Zionist zettlers. What do you expect?
But the military’s account was countered by Smadar Ben-Natan, a lawyer representing the activists. She said that two brothers on board, one a former Israeli air force pilot and high-profile peace activist, were mistreated during the operation.
Ben-Natan said Yonatan Shapira, 38, the former pilot, was struck by a stun gun and that both he and his brother Itamar, 30, a former combat soldier, were slapped and handcuffed.
But that isn't violent.
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Related:
"Also yesterday, Israel said it has resumed indirect talks with the Hamas rulers of Gaza on swapping hundreds of Palestinian prisoners for Sergeant Gilad Schalit, a soldier held for more than four years.
PFFFFFFFFTTT!
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Also see: Israel Sabotages Shalit Swap
Sometimes I think he's shacked-up at some Tel Aviv hotel room.
"With statehood, Palestine ready to end all claims" by Karin Laub, Associated Press Writer | October 17, 2010
RAMALLAH, West Bank -- In northern Gaza, meanwhile, an Israeli airstrike killed two militants.
And the world condemnation at the U.N.?
The Israeli military said its air force targeted a squad of militants preparing to fire rockets at Israel.
The militants' affiliation was not immediately known, but they did not appear to be connected to Hamas or any other major group since there was no claim of responsibility.
Translation: The whole story is a concocted crock of stinking Israeli s***.
The Israeli military said more than 165 rockets and mortars have been fired at Israel from Gaza so far this year.
Yeah, most of them by zettlers firing from empty fields.
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And I love this next piece simply for what is buried deep within.
"Netanyahu gave no evidence to support his assertion"
Liars never do!
You know what that flushing sound means, readers.
JERUSALEM — Gaza’s Hamas rulers have obtained antiaircraft missiles, Israel’s prime minister said yesterday, a potentially game-changing development that could threaten the Israeli Air Force’s ability to strike at the Islamic militant group.
First of all, this IS NOT a GAME!!
And the idea that a few rockets would threaten Israel's arsenal is f***ing ridiculous!
Honestly, I am TIRED of hearing and reading about the POOR, PERSECUTED JEW when THEY are the WORST ONES of the LOT when it comes to PERSECUTION and PREJUDICE!
Israeli aircraft have long dominated the skies over Gaza, striking suspected Hamas military installations and assassinating dozens of wanted militants.
WAR CRIMES!
The Israeli Air Force played a key role in a fierce three-week offensive in Gaza early last year, which began with airstrikes that killed hundreds of Hamas fighters. The air raids also destroyed vast amounts of infrastructure and killed hundreds of civilians.
Yeah, that ONLY GETS a SENTENCE -- and the WMD USE is TOTALLY OMITTED!!!!
Speaking to his Likud Party, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu disclosed that Israel’s aerial freedom has been compromised by the new weaponry, presumably smuggled into Gaza through tunnels connected to neighboring Egypt.
Once again it is the poor, persecuted murderer!
Will SOMEONE TURN that RECORD OVER!?
He said any future peace agreement would have to include security arrangements to deal with the threat.
But NO PRECONDITIONS, right, a***hole?!!!!!!
Israel believes that despite its military offensive and Egypt’s stated goal of halting arms smuggling, Hamas has managed to restock its arsenal with longer-range missiles.
Netanyahu’s assessment was the first time an Israeli official has openly said Hamas possesses antiaircraft weaponry, though intelligence officials have privately suspected that was the case.
He warned that the missiles could also threaten air traffic at Israel’s international airport. “Israel’s security needs are real, the solutions have to be real, not on paper,’’ he said.
So WHEN is the FALSE FLAG ATTACK DUE, Bibi?
Netanyahu gave no evidence to support his assertion, and aides would not discuss the missiles. The Israeli military refused to comment.
Yeah, I LOVE THAT PARAGRAPH!
It means this WHOLE ITEM is a HUGE, STEAMING PILE of Israeli horse s***!!!!!!!
Security officials said they have long assumed Hamas has smuggled in Russian-made Strela antiaircraft missiles, presumably supplied by Iran.
Tired of the Zionists war propaganda yet?
Of course, the U.S. supplying Israel with loads of mass-murdering weaponry is just fine and omitted.
Some versions of the Strela are shoulder-fired and are designed to target planes, helicopters, or drones at ranges of around 2 1/2 miles, according to the military information website GlobalSecurity.org.
Hamas refused to say whether it has any antiaircraft weapons and accused the Israeli leader of spreading propaganda to justify future attacks in Gaza.
Yeah, that's how they do it!
I call it SPREADING the FERTILIZER!!!!
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Yeah, poow wittle Iswael is so afwaid!
Afraid of THIS:
"Hamas must be given role in peace efforts, Carter says" by Associated Press | October 20, 2010
DAMASCUS — Jimmy Carter said yesterday that Palestinians are “living in a cage’’ in Gaza and that the militant group Hamas must be included in all major efforts for peace.
Yeah, because they are the DULY-ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES of the PALESTINIAN PEOPLE -- not the USraeli-serving agent Abass and his Fatah fraud!
The former president was in Syria with an international group of veteran statesmen known as the Elders, which includes Mary Robinson, former president of Ireland.
“We believe that Hamas should be included in all the major efforts to peace. . . . It is part of the Palestinian people,’’ Carter said. He added that “1.5 million Palestinians are held in a cage or prison while their human rights are taken away.’’
Yes, the SIEGE is an ISRAELI WAR CRIME!
Israel imposed its blockade of Gaza, a densely populated coastal strip along Israel’s southwest border, following Hamas’s violent takeover in June 2007.
And THERE THEY GO AGAIN even though they KNOW OTHERWISE!
What are we to make of the AmeriKan media!?
The rival Palestinian faction Fatah, led by the Western-backed Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, controls the West Bank.
Carter’s made his remarks as reconciliation talks between the two Palestinian factions were postponed yesterday....
And who benefits there, guys?
C'mon!
You are BROTHERS fer cripes sake!
