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| ElParedon |
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May 24, 2007
The annual global human rights report was released today by Amnesty
International.
Amnesty International accused both Israel and Hezbollah on Wednesday of
committing war crimes during the Second Lebanon War last summer, saying both
were guilty of indiscriminate attacks on civilian areas.
But this is not why I'm writing tonight.
Looking at ISRAEL AND THE OCCUPIED TERRITORIES part, the first paragraph
tells the whole story:
STATE OF ISRAEL
Head of state: Moshe Katzav
Head of government: Ehud Olmert (replaced Ariel Sharon in April)
Death penalty: abolitionist for ordinary crimes
International Criminal Court: signed but declared intention not to ratify
Isn't this just a GOOD start? It tells you in advance what to expect.
Reading on.
Increased violence between Israelis and Palestinians resulted in a
threefold increase in killings of Palestinians by Israeli forces. The number
of Israelis killed by Palestinian armed groups diminished by half.
Note: threefold increase vs. 50 percent decrease!
Some 650 Palestinians, half of them unarmed civilians and including some
120 children, were killed by Israeli forces. This toll was a threefold
increase compared with 2005.
- On 9 June, seven members of the Ghalia family - five children and their
parents - were killed and some 30 other civilians were injured when Israeli
forces fired several artillery shells at a beach in the north of the Gaza
Strip. The beach was crowded with Palestinian families enjoying the first
weekend of the school holidays. The Israeli army denied responsibility for
the killings but failed to substantiate their claim.
- In the early morning of 8 November, 18 members of the Athamna family
were killed and dozens of other civilians were injured when a volley of
artillery shells struck a densely populated neighborhood of Beit Hanoun, in
the north of the Gaza Strip. The victims, eight of them children, were
killed in their sleep or while fleeing the shelling, which lasted for around
30 minutes and during which some 12 shells landed in the area. The Israeli
authorities expressed regret for the killings, saying that the houses were
mistakenly struck due to a technical failure, but rejected calls for an
international investigation. The attack came in the wake of a six-day
Israeli army raid in Beit Hanoun code-named "Autumn Clouds", during which
Israeli forces killed some 70 Palestinians, at least half of them unarmed
civilians and including several children and two ambulance emergency service
volunteers. The raid also injured some 200 others, including scores of
children.
[.]
- Eight-year-old Akaber 'Abd al-Rahman 'Ezzat Zayed was shot dead by
Israeli special forces who opened fire on the car in which she was traveling
to hospital with her uncle, who was seriously injured in the attack. The
incident took place on 17 March in Yamun village, near the northern West
Bank town of Jenin.
- On 19 December, 14-year-old Dua'a Nasser 'Abdelkader was shot dead by
Israeli soldiers as she approached the fence/wall with a friend near Fara'un,
a village in the north of the West Bank.[.]
- Nine members of the Abu Salmiya family were killed when an Israeli F16
fighter jet bombed their home at 2.30am on 12 July. According to the Israeli
army, a senior leader of Hamas' armed wing was in the house at the time of
the strike but survived. However, the strike wiped out an entire family: the
owner of the house, Nabil Abu Salmiya, a Hamas political leader and
university lecturer; his wife Salwa; and seven of their children all aged
under 18. Dozens of neighbours were also injured and several other houses
were damaged in the strike.
Want more? Here is a sample:
Israeli settlers in the West Bank repeatedly attacked Palestinians and
their property, as well as international peace activists and human rights
defenders who sought to document their attacks on Palestinians. Some of the
attacks occurred during the olive harvest season,[.]
- In the evening of 25 March a group of Israeli settlers assaulted
'Abderrahman Shinneran as he slept in his tent with his wife and three
children in Susia in the southern Hebron Hills. When his brother 'Aziz went
to his rescue he too was assaulted and injured.
- On 18 November, Tove Johansson, a 19-year-old Swedish human rights
defender, was assaulted by Israeli settlers as she accompanied Palestinian
school children through an Israeli army checkpoint near the Tel Rumeida
Israeli settlement in the West Bank city of Hebron. She was struck with a
broken bottle and sustained facial injuries. Israeli soldiers at a nearby
checkpoint took no action to stop the attack or apprehend the perpetrators.
- Investigations and prosecutions relating to such abuses [by both
soldiers and settlers] were rare and usually only occurred when the abuses
were exposed by human rights organizations and the media[.]
Thousands of Palestinians, including scores of children, were detained by
Israeli forces [.] Trials of Palestinians before military courts often did
not meet international fair trial standards, with allegations of torture and
other ill-treatment of detainees inadequately investigated.
Beside the killing, artillery bombardments, expansion of illegal
settlements, building the apartheid fence/wall, stealing more land from the
Occupied Territories, Israel carried out air and Military blockades and
increased restrictions on the movement of Palestinians and the confiscation
by Israel of Palestinian customs duties causing the catastrophic
deterioration in living conditions for Palestinian inhabitants in the
Occupied Territories, with poverty, food aid dependency, health problems and
unemployment reaching crisis levels.
But what is it with killing these hundreds of children and pregnant women
that is so tempting to Israel, as targets? Maybe I'm naive, but can anyone
explain this other than being 'deliberate' war crimes?
How can anybody defend Israel with all of these facts? Oh, wait. wait. of
course Amnesty is an anti-Semetic organization, that's why!
Killings of Israelis by Palestinian armed groups continued but decreased
to half the previous year's figure and to the lowest level since the
beginning of the intifada in 2000. In total, 21 Israeli civilians, including
a child, and six soldiers were killed in Palestinian attacks in Israel and
the Occupied Territories.
Of course I'm not defending targeting Israeli civilians, contrary, I condemn
that too, but c'mon, what is 650 vs. 21? Yeah I know they are Semitic, but
so is the 650 Palestinians!!
I am sick and tired of these hypocrites barking for the ONLY Democracy in
Middle East, Israel. In no time, pro-Israel/warmongers will slam Amnesty
International, and question its credibility, and accuse it of being
"pro-Arab". Don't be surprised if some even call it an extension of
Hizbollah abroad. All this for saying that Israel and their puppets (IOF)
committed war crimes.
The Zionist propagandist will open the manual book and start bring out all
violations under the sun in the Arab world, and whine that the report never
discussed them in a "balanced" way. This is typical. For Israel, human cost
nothing and their crimes should be put in the same category as all other
human rights violations, but it's not. The ceaseless ongoing abuse of
Palestinians in the occupied territories, in a totally lawless fashion is
the most disturbing of all, because there is no "excuse" of wartime or
counter belligerence.
Israelis have to understand that they can't have it both ways. Majority of
Israel citizens overwhelmingly approved the IOF's tactics, in fact they are
supporting more. They think that the army did not go far enough. Yet, as
soon as Amnesty International attaches 'labels' to those actions, many will
start scream bloody murder. They have to understand that they can't have it
both ways. They either for the carnage or they're not. And if they want the
IOF to act in the manner in which they did, they should not cry when the
other side does similar things. But again, there is no similar thing and no
excuse for war crimes and killing civilians on any side.
The war criminals should be tried. There should be no hiding place for war
criminals, Jews, Muslims, Christians alike. They all should be racked down
and brought to trial. Maybe for once. Just once, Israel will hold those
Israeli's responsible for Israel's actions to justice (if they know what
justice is). The fact is that they don't. How poor one has to be, to defend
any act of War Crimes. no matter the reason what so ever!
No matter how it is addressed by Amnesty International or other
organizations, no matter what the other side feels, does or says, the fact
remains that Israel committed and continues to commit war and humanitarian
crimes against the Palestinian. All the non-blind people in the world have
come to that conclusion.
So what's new? From the inception of the so-called Jewish state, Israel is
the world star in war criminals club. |
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