Palestinian Statehood at Last ( Archived) (841)

Wow_Factor: Ah you find that boring do you Tomcatwarne? Tell me why?

Antjo39: Sorry,mistake.... in the last decades (after 1948)...

blipper2000: still fightin the good fight

mnowsa: yeap! i am pretty sure if we study the DNA of jewish people, we will see that there are some elements of israeli dust in their gene pool!

SilverBirch: No investigation of decision-makers for Operation Cast Lead: B’Tselem has raised serious concerns over Israel’s policy and actions in Operation Cast Lead, in which at least 759 Palestinians not taking part in hostilities were killed. Two years later, Israel has indicted soldiers in only three incidents regarding harm to the civilian population (one for killing a person, another for using a child as a human shield, and the third for stealing a credit card). The political echelon and senior military commanders have not been held accountable for their responsibility in setting the policy that led to extensive loss of life and limb and property damage during the operation. Israel reported that more than 40 investigations have been opened. Some of them were opened a year and a half after the operation ended, and the Judge Advocate General’s Office has not revealed how many have been closed

SilverBirch: The previous posts were from B' T Selem. An Israeli Human Rights group.


Does this prove "Spot On" of the charge of "collective punishment"?

I think it does.

SilverBirch: Settlements are illegal in the eyes of the international community.

The treatment of the Palestines by the IDF is illegal in the eyes of the international community. Collective punishment.

SilverBirch: Israel is facing growing demands from senior UN officials and human rights groups for an international war crimes investigation in Gaza over allegations such as the "reckless and indiscriminate" shelling of residential areas and use of Palestinian families as human shields by soldiers.

With the death toll from the 17-day Israeli assault on Gaza climbing above 1300, pressure is increasing for an independent inquiry into specific incidents, such as the shelling of a UN school turned refugee centre where about 40 people died, as well as the question of whether the military tactics used by Israel systematically breached humanitarian law.The UN's senior human rights body approved a resolution yesterday condemning the Israeli offensive for "massive violations of human rights". A senior UN source said the body's humanitarian agencies were compiling evidence of war crimes and passing it on to the "highest levels" to be used as seen fit.

Some human rights activists allege that the Israeli leadership gave an order to keep military casualties low no matter what cost to civilians. That strategy has directly contributed to one of the bloodiest Israeli assaults on the Palestinian territories, they say.