I am agnostic and consider most religions to have equal merit. I've never made a negative comment about Jews, Muslims or any other religious group. Unlike many people here on this forum and the Harper government, I condemn all war criminals and people who commit crimes against humanity regardless of their race or religion.
Most Canadians are well aware that Palestinians militants commit war crimes when they fire rockets and missiles in the general direction of Israeli civilians. I not only condemn this war crime, but all the other war crimes in this conflict including those which go unreported by our MSM and unshakably supported by the Harper government:
Prime Minister Stephen Harper states unshakably support for Israel despite their atrocious human rights record
I disagree with Canadian Prime Minister Harper's position that Canada should unshakably support a nation regardless of their human rights record. Canada should support international laws concerning the conduct of war and human rights, rather than support war crimes, oppression and injustice suffered by millions of innocent Palestinian civilians. Instead Canada should support the right of all civilians to freedom and justice, free of war crimes and crimes against humanity, regardless of race or religion.
I condemn the IDF's use of civilians as human shields to block bullets and search for armed militants.
I agree with the Israeli Supreme court decision banning the IDF from using civilians as human shields. The IDF's appeal of this ruling indicates that the highest levels in the IDF are not only aware of the cruel and barbaric practice, but also consider this war crime to be a valid way to protect soldiers, tanks and artillery positions from counter attack.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4333982.stm
I also condemn other IDF war crimes as investigated, corroborated and documented by Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and every reputable human rights organization which has ever investigated this conflict including the Israeli human rights organization B'tselem. These war crimes include and are not limited to:
1) Deliberately destroying civilian infrastructure for purely collective punishment reasons without any military purpose:
- hospitals, police and fire stations, mosques and churches, government buildings
- sewage and water distribution and treatment systems
- food production, storage and distribution
- electricity production and distribution
- fuel storage and distribution
2) Deliberately attacking ambulance drivers, paramedics, firemen and police and innocent civilians, including women and children.
3) Deliberately attacking UN and NGO aid convoys.
4) Deliberately shelling densely populated urban areas with heavy artillery and chemical weapons which burn flesh on contact including UN civilian shelters, schools and hospitals, without any military purpose or justification.
I condemn the Israeli government's humanitarian food and medical aid blockade to 1.5 million Gazans. These people suffer extreme poverty, food and medical supply shortages as food from organizations like Oxfam and medical supplies from Doctors With Borders and the World Health Organization sit in Israeli warehouses, when they could be in Gaza feeding people and saving lives from easily treated diseases.
I condemn Israel's system of religious based entitlement which causes millions of people to suffer injustice and oppression because they don't follow the official state religion. As a result, hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians have lost their homes and protperty to the benefit of others who follow the state religion.
I condemn Israel's rolling ethnic cleansing of land supposed reserved for a future Palestinian state. Hundreds of thousands of Israeli citizens live on land confiscated illegally from Palestinians living in the West Bank and Jerusalem. This war crime is the root cause of most violence,injustice and oppression which drives this conflict.
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I agree with Anonymous when they stated that Israeli leader "Zionist bigotry" is responsible for a "reign of terror" that has displaced or killed "a great many" innocent people.
My opinion is that Canada should remain neutral in this conflict and not sign the Mutual Defense Pact with Israel:
Nov. 17, 2011
OTTAWA - Canada and Israel are about to complete a number of defence co-operation agreements that will significantly tighten military bonds between the two countries as tensions grow over Iran's nuclear ambitions.
And Defence Minister Peter MacKay refused Wednesday to rule out a mutual-defence agreement that would oblige Canada to come to Israel's defence should the latter be attacked.
Canada, Israel to bolster militaries
I disagree with any decision which would result in Canadian soldiers helping war criminals oppress and commit injustices against millions of innocent civilians.
