Criticism of Israeli war crimes and crimes against humanity is not Anti-Semitism

Is criticism of Israel's human rights record is anti-Semitic

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  • maybe

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CDNBear

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I see EAO has still not taken my challenge.

Have the usual suspects figured out the difference between criticism and demonization yet?

Not by the looks of it...

Obviously, you looked in the mirror and saw what an ass you are and projected your self image unto me.
Not at all, I don't think you're an ass. You've made that quite clear. All one has to do is witness a sad pathetic little man, such as yourself, base an assessment on, as you claimed "4 bannings". (But as was pointed out to me, I was actually only banned once. My bad. I was suspended twice. And none of those for the content of my posts to regular members...) As if the net and a web forum had that much power or meaning. As far as you're concerned it does I guess. How sad I feel for you. To be so devoid of a life, that the virtual one you've created is all powerful and all you have.

I can see why being told you posted in the wrong thread would be such a strike against your person.

But that's the usual course for a self hating neurotic like you.
You're projecting again. Since you claim to be 1/15,000,000th Jew, Muslim, Injin and so on. Which as you have claimed in the past, gives you license to be critical of those groups. Me on the other hand, I love myself. Just ask anybody, lol.

I do not like another person. But I have a value that says I should like everyone. So I project onto them that they do not like me. This allows me to avoid them and also to handle my own feelings of dislike.
I guess that's why you live in forums then, and give them so much power and meaning, how sad.

Projection

When a person has uncomfortable thoughts or feelings, they may project these onto other people, assigning the thoughts or feelings that they need to repress to a convenient alternative target.
Projection may also happen to obliterate attributes of other people with which we are uncomfortable. We assume that they are like us, and in doing so we allow ourselves to ignore those attributes they have with which we are uncomfortable.

  • Neurotic projection is perceiving others as operating in ways one unconsciously finds objectionable in yourself.
  • Complementary projection is assuming that others do, think and feel in the same way as you.
  • Complimentary projection is assuming that others can do things as well as you.
Projection also appears where we see our own traits in other people, as in the false consensus effect. Thus we see our friends as being more like us than they really are.
Sounds just like you.

But I forgive you cause you have a low self esteem.
You seem to be the only one that says that. Everyone else keeps telling me I'm in love with myself, lol. So you must be projecting again gopher.
 

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Saudi Arabia captures Israeli 'spy vulture'
Saudi Arabian security services have captured a vulture that is suspected of being a Mossad spy sent over by Israel to gather information about the country.


The bird was carrying a GPS transmitter


7:00AM GMT 05 Jan 2011

The large bird, which was carrying a GPS transmitter and a tag bearing the identification code R65 from Tel Aviv University, strayed into rural Saudi Arabian territory at some point last week, according to a report in the Israeli daily Ma'ariv.

Residents and local reporters told Saudi Arabia's Al-Weeam newspaper that the matter seemed to be linked to a "Zionist plot" and swiftly alerted security services. The bird has since been placed under arrest.

The accusations went viral, according to the Israeli Ha'aretz newspaper, with hundreds of posts on Arabic-language websites and forums claiming that the "Zionists" had trained the birds for espionage.

The incident comes amid growing paranoia among Israel's neighbours over the nation's growing military might.

Several weeks ago an Egyptian official reportedly claimed that a shark that attacked tourists off the coastal resort of Sharm el Sheikh was also acting on behalf of the Israeli spy service.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/saudiarabia/8240213/Saudi-Arabia-captures-Israeli-spy-vulture.html



 

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What is so wrong with AIPAC, there in nothing wrong with having a organization looking out for your interests. We never had a independent media by the way.

Maybe Skatchie likes blowing up cars or flying planes into buildings as a way of looking out for your interests.
 

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Saudi Arabia captures Israeli 'spy vulture'

lol

 

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'' Me on the other hand, I love myself. Just ask anybody, lol.''

LOL! Typical neurotic paranoid response. Just hatred for others is only a sad reflection of someone who all too obviously hates himself. Whatever your problem is, don't croak yourself. It's not worth it.

Just for your information, here's Suicide Prevention Centre:

Information | Centre for Suicide Prevention

We're all here to help.

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Wow! Gotta save that one for Post of the year.

hahahahaha!
 

CDNBear

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LOL! Typical neurotic paranoid response.
You're projecting again.

Just hatred for others is only a sad reflection of someone who all too obviously hates himself.
You're projecting again, I don't hate anyone, at all.

Whatever your problem is, don't croak yourself. It's not worth it.
No need to tell me. That's why my life is full of adventure and venture and I get so little time to be bored and come out here and make sad little people like you dance, lol.

Just for your information, here's Suicide Prevention Centre:

Information | Centre for Suicide Prevention
I guess you've used their services a few times eh. I'm not surprised you'd be a failure at that too.
We're all here to help.
That coming from an ex IRS lackey is above simply funny.
 

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The animals are fighting I predict the smelly omnivore will step on its tongue, again, in perfect harmony with its past pathetic arguments. A garbage lovin bear is no match for a sophisticated rodent like a gopher.
 

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JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel told U.S. officials in 2008 it would keep Gaza's economy "on the brink of collapse" while avoiding a humanitarian crisis, according to U.S. diplomatic cables published by a Norwegian daily on Wednesday.

Three cables cited by the Aftenposten newspaper, which has said it has all 250,000 U.S. cables leaked to WikiLeaks, showed that Israel kept the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv briefed on its internationally criticized blockade of the Gaza Strip.

The territory, home to 1.3 million Palestinians, is run by the Islamist Hamas group, which is shunned by the West over its refusal to recognize Israel, renounce violence or accept existing interim Israeli-Palestinian peace deals.

"As part of their overall embargo plan against Gaza, Israeli officials have confirmed to (U.S. embassy economic officers) on multiple occasions that they intend to keep the Gazan economy on the brink of collapse without quite pushing it over the edge," one of the cables read.

Israel wanted the coastal territory's economy "functioning at the lowest level possible consistent with avoiding a humanitarian crisis," according to the November 3, 2008 cable.

In a speech in January 2008, then-Prime Minister Ehud Olmert appeared to spell out that policy, which has since been eased in the wake of an international outcry over a deadly Israeli raid last May on a Turkish aid ship trying to break the blockade.

"We will not harm the supply of food for children, medicine for those who need it and fuel for institutions that save lives," Olmert said at the time.

"But there is no justification for demanding we allow residents of Gaza to live normal lives while shells and rockets are fired from their streets and courtyards (at southern Israel)," he added.

The Jewish state says it has significantly relaxed the blockade since May, with dozens of truckloads of goods entering the territory daily. Aid organizations have said shipments should be increased further.

Palestinians say impoverished Gaza remains effectively a "prison" sealed off by Israel, and have called for an opening to allow normal trade and other links with the world.








FOR SHAME ISRAELI SUPPORTERS, FOR SHAME!
 

darkbeaver

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If we criticize Belgium for its human rights record we're anti Belgian , if we criticize America for its human rights record we're being anti American, if we criticize Norway for its human rights record we're being Anti Norwegian but but but if we criticize Israel for its human rights record we are being Anti semetic. Now anyone can see that this is certainly a break in the logic. Now you can see the first deviation from reality that the authors have cultivated in the beginning and throughout the controversy. We are trained to see this pig, lipstick and all, as a superb icon of morality when in fact it is a pig like the others. So no one should have the least difficulty condemning Israeli war pigs. If you don't, you can be counted among those who said and did nothing while your children and grandchildren were sold into slavery and war.
 

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''You're projecting again, I don't hate anyone, at all.''

LOL! Here's some who will gladly help you in this hour of your urgent needs:

http://www.thegooddrugsguide.com/recovery-programs/12-step-behavioral/neurotics-anonymous.htm



Neurotics Anonymous Neurosis Help

Neurotics Anonymous is a self-help group for people who are struggling with negative emotions. The organization uses a 12-step approach to help members who are living with a mental or emotional illness to heal their lives.
Neurotics Anonymous Overview

Neurotics Anonymous members may have already tried to get treatment for their difficulties but found that taking medications or seeing a psychiatrist wasn't effective for them. Some members of the group were so despondent that they attempted suicide. The organization doesn't refer to its members as being "neurotic" in the literal sense of the word; in this context it means "any person whose emotions interfere with his functioning in any way and to any degree whatsoever as recognized by him."
Philosophy

This group uses 12 suggested steps to help members improve their lives. Neurotics Anonymous uses a similar program to the one used by Alcoholics Anonymous to help its members to deal with their emotional or mental illness.
Traditions, Steps, and Process

Neurotics Anonymous members attend meetings on a regular basis to provide support to each other. The organization is self supporting through donations made by current members and the sale of its literature. It does not accept donations from outside sources.
The group cautions members against expecting that they will be able to achieve an instant recovery after joining the group. Fellow members remind them that setbacks are only temporary and help them to realize that healing takes time, patience, and treatment.
Effectiveness: Does Neurotics Anonymous Work?

Neurotics Anonymous claims that its program works, but this can't be confirmed since the group's members are all committed to remaining anonymous.

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''FOR SHAME ISRAELI SUPPORTERS, FOR SHAME!''

The Un-Jewish Assault on Richard Goldstone

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By Letty Cottin Pogrebin

Published December 29, 2010, issue of January 07, 2011.


Two years after Operation Cast Lead, Israel’s three-week assault against Hamas in Gaza, we are still grappling with the fallout. Much of the public reckoning has been channeled into an acrimonious debate over the report of a four-person investigative commission appointed by the United Nations Human Rights Council and headed by Judge Richard Goldstone. Regrettably, the conduct of many of Israel’s supporters in this dispute has been both indecent and profoundly un-Jewish.
From the moment the Goldstone Report was released in September 2009, its lead author has been subjected to fierce, well-orchestrated attacks by Israeli and American Jews who purport to be defending the legitimacy of the Jewish state and the safety of the Jewish people. Rather than discuss the contents of the report — which concluded that during the 2008-2009 Gaza war, Israel (as well as Hamas) may have committed war crimes — Israel’s defenders launched an all-points campaign to bury it. But their strategy was complicated from the start by an inconvenient truth: Goldstone was one of them — a Jew, and not just any Jew, an exemplary one.


Until 2003, Goldstone served on South Africa’s highest court. Before that, he had distinguished himself as chair of a commission of inquiry into violence during the final years of apartheid, as chief prosecutor of war crimes in the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, and as part of the team that investigated the U.N. oil-for-food scandal in Iraq.
Goldstone’s Jewish credentials were equally stellar. A proud, self-identified Zionist, he served on the board of governors of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem; as chair of the advisory board of Brandeis University’s International Center for Ethics, Justice, and Public Life; and as president of World ORT, the international Jewish educational organization. He also was a dogged investigator of Nazi war criminals in Argentina.
Obviously, it wasn’t easy to destroy Richard Goldstone. But for his report to be permanently deep-sixed, the man himself had to be thor-oughly discredited, recast not just as a naïve dupe of the human rights community but as an enemy of Israel, a Nazi in Zionist clothing, a perpetrator of “blood libel,” a self-hating Jew.
“There are three primary threats facing us today,” said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, “the nuclear threat, the missile threat, and what I call the Goldstone threat.” President Shimon Peres called Goldstone “a small man, devoid of any sense of justice.” Others in the government and media piled on, as did the so-called leaders of the “organized” American Jewish community. Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz said Goldstone was “an evil, evil man,” “a traitor to the Jewish people,” the U.N.’s “token court Jew” and a “despicable human being.”
There’s a Hebrew word for what these people did to Richard Goldstone: They put him in cherem, meaning he was not just persona non grata in the eyes of our religious arbiters, he was totally cut off from the Jewish community. From the moment the report was released, he was treated like a leper — shunned, defamed, disowned — and the worst was yet to come.
In April 2010, the South African Zionist Federation reportedly threatened demonstrations outside the Sandton Synagogue if he showed up at his grandson’s bar mitzvah. Given the volatile political context, that was tantamount to banning the grandfather from the ceremony. No less an authority than Rabbi Moshe Kurtstag, head of the local rabbinic court, endorsed the idea that Goldstone should simply stay away, calling it “quite a sensible thing to avert all this unpleasantness.”
After an international outcry, Goldstone was able to attend the bar mitzvah. However, that hardly absolves Jews worldwide for the smear campaign against him. Appalling enough in human terms, I believe it should be condemned on specifically Jewish grounds. The most Jewishly observant and educated of Goldstone’s attackers surely knew that speaking ill of another human being (“hate speech” in current parlance) violates one of Judaism’s most sacrosanct laws, the prohibition against lashon hara (the Evil Tongue — i.e., gossip), which Maimonides defined as any utterance (true or not!) that might cause a person physical or monetary damage, or shame, humiliation, an-guish or fear.
The Talmud’s famous story of the Oven of Achnai goes even further. It establishes that onaat devarim — verbal torment or abusive speech — is a more heinous infraction than physical assault. The story opens with a dispute among the sages of the Sanhedrin over the ritual purity of a clay oven. Most of the decisors agree that the oven is unclean, but Eliezer, a respected voice, though in this instance a minority of one, insists it is clean and summons four astounding miracles to prove his position. The sages dismiss these divine signs, proclaiming the Torah “is not in heaven” — meaning, the law is to be interpreted by human thinkers on earth — so the majority rules. God apparently agrees since the heavenly voice laughs and, disarmed by the sages’ logic, says, “My sons have defeated Me.” To underscore their victory, the sages set fire to the disputed oven and everything else Eliezer had declared clean, then they vote to excommunicate him.
When Eliezer weeps and grieves, God, despite having ruled for the sages, responds to their mistreatment of him by withering harvests across the land, spoiling dough and incinerating every object Eliezer looks upon. The president of the Sanhedrin meets an untimely death, taking the hit for his minions’ sin of onaat devarim. The gravity of this forbidden activity becomes crystal clear: God nearly destroyed the world because of the “wounded feelings” of Eliezer, an honorable man.
Surely the rabbis who made Richard Goldstone’s life miserable were aware of that famous story as well as the tradition that similar be-havior caused the calamity of calamities, that the Second Temple was demolished for only one reason, sinat chinam (baseless hatred), Jew hating Jew, an infraction so severe that it merited an exile of almost 2,000 years.
The truth is, many holier-than-thou Jews violated several Jewish laws and traditions by politicizing Goldstone’s grandson’s sacred rite of passage, by causing pain to a man and his family, and by dumping verbal sludge on a fellow Jew whose only crime was to pursue justice and demand that Israel live up to its founding principles. Yet Israel’s fanatical defenders won’t let up on Goldstone until he is irreparably destroyed.
His foes mounted a fresh offensive last spring based on a front-page story in Yediot Aharonot, Israel’s mass circulation daily, that charged that during his years as a South African judge, Goldstone “sided through and through with the racist policies of the Apartheid regime” and should “do some soul-searching before he rushes to criticize others.”
Goldstone responded that though it was “the most difficult” decision of his career, he had accepted the judicial appointment in the belief that he could accomplish more by defending the rule of law from within the judicial system. His critics fell over each other exploiting the story and ratcheting up the rhetoric. Danny Ayalon, Israel’s deputy foreign minister, said, “I don’t want to exaggerate but these are the same explanations we heard in Nazi Germany after World War II.” Alan Dershowitz sank to a new low. “That’s what Mengele said, too,” he told an Israeli TV program. Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman reportedly ordered Yediot’s story distributed to his diplomatic missions abroad.
Yet Goldstone had garnered respect investigating state-sponsored violence against blacks during apartheid, and it was Nelson Mandela himself who subsequently appointed Goldstone to South Africa’s highest court post-apartheid. Thus, one can safely assume that he was considered a fair and honest judge.
Anyone claiming to espouse Jewish values ought to be outraged by the avalanche of attacks on Richard Goldstone. But they should be deeply conscience-stricken by the possibility, just the possibility, that the Israeli army committed atrocities in Gaza. Yet many in our community are still vilifying the judge, and almost no one is talking about his findings: Thousands of Palestinian homes reduced to rubble. Gaza’s infrastructure in ruins. Women and children burned by white phosphorus bombs. A man shot while his arms were shackled and left to die. Civilians shot and killed while carrying white flags. Twenty-two members of one family killed in Gaza City.
It would have been “good for the Jews” and for Israel had the report’s substance been frankly confronted and debated, however the only game in town is “Kill the message, trash the messenger.” In that sense, Goldstone is the Eliezer of our age — a judge pledged to defend the law in the face of arrogant opposition, excoriated for holding Jews to their principles, excommunicated for speaking truth to power. One can only hope the contemporary story doesn’t end as badly as the one in the Talmud.
Letty Cottin Pogrebin is a founding editor of Ms. Magazine and the author of nine books. This essay is adapted from her chapter in “The Goldstone Report: The Legacy of the Landmark Investigation of the Gaza Conflict,” to be published January 11 by Nation Books.

Read more: Letty Cottin Pogrebin: The Un-Jewish Assault on Richard Goldstone ? Forward.com



The Jewish Forward is the oldest publication of is kind in NYC.

Here is another article that also questions the irrationality of Israel's absurd policies:


January 3, 2011, 3:45am Disaffection Row: Pro-Israel Journalists Giving Up on Defending Israel

By J.J. Goldberg

Now that we’ve all had a couple of days to enjoy the prospect of a sunny 2011, it’s time to get back to the worrying. In that spirit, here’s a thought to start us off: Some of Israel’s staunchest supporters in the American media are beginning to wonder openly how much longer they’ll be able to support the Jewish state.
Shmuel Rosner, the Jerusalem Post blogger and former Haaretz Washington correspondent, offered some startling names, referring readers for more details to a thought-provoking rundown of critics and defenders posted on TheAtlanticWire.com by Max Fisher (no, not that Max Fisher). Included on Fisher’s list were some eye-catching names. One was Jeffrey Goldberg, whose December 27 post on TheAtlantic.com was titled “What If Israel Ceases To Be a Democracy?” Another was Thomas Friedman, whose December 12 New York Times column, “Reality Check,” included the warning to Israelis and Palestinians alike that America needs to “stop being their crack dealers.”
The big fish, though, was New Yorker editor David Remnick, who complained in an interview published in Hebrew in the Yediot Ahronot Friday supplement of December 24 (the juicy portion was translated back into English by Didi Remez at Coteret.com) that he and others like him look at the unending occupation and “can’t take anymore.”

Read more: J.J. Goldberg ? Forward.com



As always, Israel's biggest critics are Jewish so that, contrary to certain drugged up, deluded neurotic right wingers, criticism of its war crimes is not Anti-Semitism.



 

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The animals are fighting I predict the smelly omnivore will step on its tongue, again, in perfect harmony with its past pathetic arguments. A garbage lovin bear is no match for a sophisticated rodent like a gopher.
Coming from a rodent I've proven wrong so many times. Ya, I can see why you rodents would stick together.

Safety in numbers. The instincts of the smallest minds at play.

JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel told U.S. officials in 2008 it would keep Gaza's economy "on the brink of collapse" while avoiding a humanitarian crisis, according to U.S. diplomatic cables published by a Norwegian daily on Wednesday.
You posted this article, because I take it you agree with it's content.

That's good, because you just absolved Israel of any illegal acts, or wrong doing.

And I bet you don't even know how.

FOR SHAME ISRAELI SUPPORTERS, FOR SHAME!
Not really. That's a sound military tactic.

LOL! Here's some who will gladly help you in this hour of your urgent needs:
You just keep dancing.

I love it.

Have you ever noticed, I don't make comments about "drugs" or peoples mental state, like yourself?

You do realize your telling us a lot about yourself and projecting, at the same time.

 

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LOL! CDNBEAR says THE PALESTIANS are suffering from obesity oh there is so much food in Palestine! WHAT A PARADISE!
Then I show him that Israel is purposefully oppressing Gaza's economy and all he can say is, "Yup, that's a military tactic and perfectly legal"
LMFAO
 

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LOL! CDNBEAR says THE PALESTIANS are suffering from obesity oh there is so much food in Palestine! WHAT A PARADISE!
Then I show him that Israel is purposefully oppressing Gaza's economy and all he can say is, "Yup, that's a military tactic and perfectly legal"
LMFAO

I'm going to ruin CDN Bear's fun, because I can't stand the suspense anymore!!!! LOL (I hope he'll forgive me)

The article you posted is clear evidence that Israel has NOT committed any "crimes against humanity" in its isolation of the Gaza Strip.

You can READ, can't you??? :)

<B>Quote: Originally Posted by CUBert
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel told U.S. officials in 2008 it would keep Gaza's economy "on the brink of collapse" while avoiding a humanitarian crisis, according to U.S. diplomatic cables published by a Norwegian daily on Wednesday.
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I added some emphasis to help you out!

And I've news for you....Israel is under NO obligation to allow economic development in any area controled by a political entity sworn to the destruction of Jews in general, and the State of Israel in particular.

I love this stuff....lol


http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com...ive-letters-that-spell-middle-eastern-misery/
 
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LOL look at this immorally bankrupt nutjobs supporting the purposeful suppression of the Gazan economy by Israel in the same breath decrying Ahmadinejad for human rights violations! Hahahaha. Colpy acting all smug and smart is the funniest part of the thread. "It's O.K to suppress another country and it's citizens of basic necessities as long as it doesn't cause full blown humanitarian crisis "
LOL!
 

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LOL look at this immorally bankrupt nutjobs supporting the purposeful suppression of the Gazan economy by Israel in the same breath decrying Ahmadinejad for human rights violations! Hahahaha. Colpy acting all smug and smart is the funniest part of the thread. "It's O.K to suppress another country and it's citizens of basic necessities as long as it doesn't cause full blown humanitarian crisis "
LOL!

Once again proving you have NO idea what you are talking about.

For example;

Israel does not have capital punishment.

Both Gaza and Iran practice capital punishment for a long list of offenses, some of which (no doubt) both you and I am guilty of......and Iran executes in the most horrific way possible, by burying a woman to the neck and having her stoned to death.

But you know, don't let any of THAT influence your support of lunatic Islamists against Israel!

It takes a particular kind of stupidity to engage in the kind of self-hatred you wallow in.....I say self-hatred because Israeli society is very much like our own, and it is pitted against a culture that would have been considered regressive 500 years ago....

Unless, of course, it is just old-fashioned Jew hatred you're into....... :)
 

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The Israeli actions that Colpy supports are violations of international law.

8 ) Israel's humanitarian aid blockade which limits food an medical aid for four years which has artificially caused 1.5 million people to suffer disease and malnutrition is a crime against humanity. The blockade policies implemented by Israel against the Gaza Strip, in particular the closure of or restrictions imposed on border crossings in the immediate period before the military operations, subjected the local population to extreme hardship and deprivations that amounted to a violation of Israel’s obligations as an occupying Power under the Fourth Geneva Convention. These measures led to a severe deterioration and regression in the levels of realization of economic and social rights of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and weakened its social and economic fabric, leaving health, education, sanitation and other essential services in a very vulnerable position to cope with the immediate effects of the military operations. Israel has essentially violated its obligation to allow free passage of all consignments of medical and hospital objects, food and clothing that were needed to meet the urgent humanitarian needs of the civilian population in the context of the military operations, which is in violation of article 23 of the Fourth Geneva Convention. The conditions resulting from deliberate actions of the Israeli armed forces and the declared policies of the Government with regard to the Gaza Strip before, during and after the military operation cumulatively indicate the intention to inflict collective punishment on the people of the Gaza Strip and a clear violation of the provisions of article 33 of the Fourth Geneva Convention.

http://forums.canadiancontent.net/i...2-regarding-my-islamic-terrorist-buddies.html

Article 23

Each High Contracting Party shall allow the free passage of all consignments of medical and hospital stores and objects necessary for religious worship intended only for civilians of another High Contracting Party, even if the latter is its adversary. It shall likewise permit the free passage of all consignments of essential foodstuffs, clothing and tonics intended for children under fifteen, expectant mothers and maternity cases.
The obligation of a High Contracting Party to allow the free passage of the consignments indicated in the preceding paragraph is subject to the condition that this Party is satisfied that there are no serious reasons for fearing:

  • that the consignments may be diverted from their destination,
  • that the control may not be effective, or
  • that a definite advantage may accrue to the military efforts or economy of the enemy through the substitution of the above-mentioned consignments for goods which would otherwise be provided or produced by the enemy or through the release of such material, services or facilities as would otherwise be required for the production of such goods.
The Power which allows the passage of the consignments indicated in the first paragraph of this Article may make such permission conditional on the distribution to the persons benefited thereby being made under the local supervision of the Protecting Powers.
Such consignments shall be forwarded as rapidly as possible, and the Power which permits their free passage shall have the right to prescribe the technical arrangements under which such passage is allowed.



Article 33.
No protected person may be punished for an offense he or she has not personally committed. Collective penalties and likewise all measures of intimidation or of terrorism are prohibited.

Pillage is prohibited.

Israel signed off on this back in 1949 as part of their acceptance into the UN. If Israel can legally ignore this convention, if they unsign themselves and give up their seat at the UN.
http://www.icrc.org/ihl.nsf/NORM/35D52356F487FC85C1256402003F9563?OpenDocument
 
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