Israel practicing apartheid and colonialism

[darkbeaver]

'Missing the point'
Mark Regev, an Israeli government spokesman, told Al Jazeera: "Amnesty's report is problematic, it's based on very faulty methodology, it rehashes a lot of old stuff that was not confirmed and it misses the main point.

He's a professional liar one of the sickest of the sick. It takes an incredible lack of descrimination to credit anything that spews forth from the ****hole in his face.
The supporters of Israel are lovers of a murdering racist theocracy.

 

[petros]

 

[darkbeaver]

No animal or man would wear one of those, only a slave organism dwelling completely in contempt of life itself would even think of it.

 

[earth_as_one]

Hamas struck Israel first? Even Israel admits Hamas respected the 2008 ceasefire.

Recognize this guy?
YouTube - Who Broke The Cease Fire - Hamas or Israel 2008

An Unnecessary War


By Jimmy Carter
Thursday, January 8, 2009; Page A15


I know from personal involvement that the devastating invasion of Gaza by Israel could easily have been avoided...

...1.5 million inhabitants of Gaza were being starved, as the U.N. special rapporteur on the right to food had found that acute malnutrition in Gaza was on the same scale as in the poorest nations in the southern Sahara, with more than half of all Palestinian families eating only one meal a day...

...this fragile truce was partially broken on Nov. 4, when Israel launched an attack in Gaza to destroy a defensive tunnel being dug by Hamas inside the wall that encloses Gaza...


Jimmy Carter - An Unnecessary War - washingtonpost.com

July 8, 2009

The Gross Nature of Israel's Violations

June 2009 in Gaza marked two years since the beginning of a blockade of basic goods and six months since the end of one of Israel's most gruesome military onslaughts. The territory, already under occupation and on the steady road towards de-development even before the pummeling strikes of "Operation Cast Lead," could have used the help of the international donor and political community to end the siege and reverse the tragic trajectory of regression. Instead, last week the International Committee of the Red Cross reported that six-months after the conclusion of "Operation Cast Lead," the inhabitants of Gaza were being "prevented from rebuilding their lives." Among the goods prevented from reaching the 1.5 million Palestinians of Gaza are painkillers, x-ray films, water and cement. The ICRC reports that the Palestinian economy has "nearly collapsed."

The purpose of international humanitarian law is to protect civilians from harm during war. States, like humans, have rights, and among those rights is the right to use force to defend one's national integrity and citizens. That right is circumscribed by the concern for civilians and enshrined in the Geneva Conventions. The entire humanitarian law regime is built on the consensus that civilians should be protected from harm during warfare. And Common Article 3 of the Conventions extends the regime's applicability in those cases where non-state actors wage war. Therefore it is especially frightening that rather than rehabilitate civil society in the aftermath of a horrific offensive that killed 1,400 civilians, including 313 children, Israel is prohibiting the entry of the materials necessary for its reconstruction.

While blockades are not new to the international legal order, think to the decade-long US-imposed sanctions on Iraq or the 49-year US-imposed embargo on Cuba, the blockade of Gaza is unique for including the prohibition of basic goods, being applied against an occupied nation, and persisting in spite of a military attack that left 14,000 homes, 240 schools, and 219 factories destroyed. In Gaza, the otherwise sterile moniker, 'blockade,' amounts to a policy of starvation...

Noura Erakat: The Gross Nature of Israel's Violations

 

[earth_as_one]

This is brave:
YouTube - A Very Brave Girl

This is life as a Palestinian farmer:
YouTube - Israeli Military Shoot Gaza Farmer

YouTube - Israeli Occupation Forces Fire on Farmers and Internationals

IDF killed civilians in Gaza under loose rules of engagement
By Amos Harel

During Operation Cast Lead, Israeli forces killed Palestinian civilians under permissive rules of engagement and intentionally destroyed their property, say soldiers who fought in the offensive....

IDF killed civilians in Gaza under loose rules of engagement - Haaretz - Israel News

From the AI Report.

Much of the destruction was wanton and resulted from direct attacks on civilian objects as
well as indiscriminate attacks that failed to distinguish between legitimate military targets
and civilian objects. Such attacks violated fundamental provisions of international
humanitarian law, notably the prohibition on direct attacks on civilians and civilian objects
(the principle of distinction), the prohibition on indiscriminate or disproportionate attacks,
and the prohibition on collective punishment.
Hundreds of civilians were killed in attacks carried out using high-precision weapons – airdelivered
bombs and missiles, and tank shells. Others, including women and children, were
shot at short range when posing no threat to the lives of the Israeli soldiers. Aerial
bombardments launched from Israeli F-16 combat aircraft targeted and destroyed civilian
homes without warning, killing and injuring scores of their inhabitants, often while they slept.
Children playing on the roofs of their homes or in the street and other civilians going about
their daily business, as well as medical staff attending the wounded were killed in broad
daylight by Hellfire and other highly accurate missiles launched from helicopters and
unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), or drones, and by precision projectiles fired from tanks.
Disturbing questions remain unanswered as to why such high-precision weapons, whose
operators can see even small details of their targets and which can accurately strike even fast
moving vehicles,1 killed so many children and other civilians.
Scores of civilians were also killed and injured by less precise weapons, such as artillery
shells and mortars, and flechette tank shells, which can be accurately aimed but which
disperse thousands of deadly metal darts at great velocity over a large area.
White phosphorus, a highly incendiary substance, was repeatedly fired indiscriminately over
densely populated residential areas, killing and wounding civilians and destroying civilian
property. It was often launched from artillery shells in air-burst mode, which aggravated the
already devastating consequences of the attacks. Each shell ejected over a hundred felt
wedges impregnated with highly incendiary white phosphorus, which rained down over houses
and streets, igniting on exposure to oxygen and setting fire to people and property....

...During Operation “Cast Lead” Israeli forces repeatedly took over Palestinian homes in the
Gaza Strip forcing families to stay in a ground-floor room while they used the rest of their
house as a military base and sniper position – effectively using the families, both adults and
children, as “human shields” and putting them at risk.72 While soldiers wore protective body
armour and helmets and shielded themselves behind sandbags as they fired from the houses,
the Palestinian inhabitants of the houses had no such protection....

http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/a...a74-4853-860f-0563725e633a/mde150152009en.pdf

Israeli soldiers using Palestinians civilians as human shields has been well documented and proven for a long time.

Israeli Human Rights Organization B'Tselem:

The IDF has been using Palestinian civilians as “human shields” for some time. Since the beginning of the current Intifada, IDF soldiers have ordered Palestinian civilians to:

- Enter buildings to check whether they are booby-trapped or to expel their occupants.
Remove suspicious objects from the road.

- Stand inside houses that the IDF has turned into military positions, so that Palestinians will not fire at soldiers.

- Walk in front of soldiers to shield them from gunfire.

B'Tselem - Press Releases - 14 Aug. 02: IDF is Responsible for Death of "Human Shield"

B'Tselem - Human Shields - Timeline of events

 

[ironsides]

"Palestinian group Hamas has declared that the six-month ceasefire between Israel and the Gaza Strip is over.
The ceasefire officially ended at daybreak in Gaza on Friday and came after armed Palestinian groups admitted that they had been using the truce to train and better arm themselves.
The Izz-al-din al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the Hamas movement, blamed Israel for the failure of the truce.

"The ceasefire is over and there won't be a renewal because the Zionist enemy has not respected its conditions," the group said on its website."
Al Jazeera English - Middle East - Hamas declares end to Israel truce

Nice try. You do like your Blogs.

 

[earth_as_one]

Training and aquiring arms is a ceasefire violation? How? Were any Israelis killed during these training exercises? Did Israel also carry out training exercises during the same period or buy any new arms? Were these also examples of ceasefire violations?

How about Israel sending commandos into Gaza on November 4th and killing half a dozen members of Hamas in an unprovoked attack on Novenber 4, was that a ceasefire violation?

 

[petros]

How about Israel sending commandos into Gaza on November 4th and killing half a dozen members of Hamas in an unprovoked attack on Novenber 4, was that a ceasefire violation?

No. That was terrorism.

 

[In Between Man]

No. That was terrorism.

How can it be terrorism if its Israel that's the recognized state with every right to exist, and Hamas is internationally recognized, for clearly seen reasons, as a terrorist organization?

Unprovoked? Right, like lying in wait and planning to kill soldiers and innocent civilians isn't provocation enough.

 

[petros]

Palestine is a recognized state. When foreigner agents enter a sovereign state and murder members of a political party it' is state sponsored terrorism.

 

[petros]

How many Israelis sit in Palestinian jails for killing a Palestinian?

 

[gopher]

Israel uses the USA as its human shields.

 

[In Between Man]

Palestine is a recognized state. When foreigner agents enter a sovereign state and murder members of a political party it' is state sponsored terrorism.

Sorry, I forgot, they're "freedom fighters" instead of terrorists. Riiiiight.:roll::roll::roll:

 

[In Between Man]

How many Israelis sit in Palestinian jails for killing a Palestinian?

None, because Israelis aren't hunkered down in secret tunnels smuggling, planning, and conspiring to murder innocent people.

 

[petros]

Was Begin not a terrorist in the full sense of the word? How does Hamas today differ from Begin & Co. in his heyday of bombings and murder?

 

[In Between Man]

Israel uses the USA as its human shields.

Israel doesn't listen to the USA's advice everytime though. Their not completely desperate for American support. Israel can hold its own.

 

[In Between Man]

Sorry, I forgot, they're "freedom fighters" instead of terrorists. Riiiiight.:roll::roll::roll:

That reminds me of a funny story, completely true. When I worked in a horrible public service job, this guy living in his van starting coming around and hanging out. He seemed a little eccentric at first, but when we started talking about politics and eventually Israel, I seen a type of crazy in this man's eyes that made me very uncomfortable and afraid to be around him to say the least.

First he said that Hamas and Hezzbolah were not terrorists but freedom fighters.

Because he said next, the Jews were conspiring to enslave human kind with a one world government.

It gets better. Then he actually tells me that the Jews are actually a secret lizard alien race that have invaded our planet and assumed human form!

This guy wasn't up for debate either, so needless to say I told this whack job to take a hike.

 

[ironsides]

Training and aquiring arms is a ceasefire violation? How? Were any Israelis killed during these training exercises? Did Israel also carry out training exercises during the same period or buy any new arms? Were these also examples of ceasefire violations?

How about Israel sending commandos into Gaza on November 4th and killing half a dozen members of Hamas in an unprovoked attack on Novenber 4, was that a ceasefire violation?

Just a preemptive strike in order to protect themselves. Perfectly acceptable when the other guy is planning on killing you. You never trust a enemy that refuses to wear a uniform that identifies them from civilians. That is a Human rights violation as well as being the mark of a coward.

 

[bluedog]

That reminds me of a funny story, completely true. When I worked in a horrible public service job, this guy living in his van starting coming around and hanging out. He seemed a little eccentric at first, but when we started talking about politics and eventually Israel, I seen a type of crazy in this man's eyes that made me very uncomfortable and afraid to be around him to say the least.

First he said that Hamas and Hezzbolah were not terrorists but freedom fighters.

Because he said next, the Jews were conspiring to enslave human kind with a one world government.

It gets better. Then he actually tells me that the Jews are actually a secret lizard alien race that have invaded our planet and assumed human form!

This guy wasn't up for debate either, so needless to say I told this whack job to take a hike.

Aaaah! Agent Orange strikes again!

Dow chemical, "Living, Improved Daily" Monsanto "To Make the Best Better"

 

[bluedog]

Training and aquiring arms is a ceasefire violation? How? Were any Israelis killed during these training exercises? Did Israel also carry out training exercises during the same period or buy any new arms? Were these also examples of ceasefire violations?

How about Israel sending commandos into Gaza on November 4th and killing half a dozen members of Hamas in an unprovoked attack on Novenber 4, was that a ceasefire violation?

************************************************
Unfortunately, no, ashamedly...

The USa does little in response to human rights violations of friends of ours. However. Always, only, "We do not condone it". The money and aid are never threatened, a boycott is never called for. No emergency meetings of the G-20. Nothing.

A sin, O please, hear me and the world... Barack my brother, THIS a Sin.
YOU sir, are thus now an accomplice perhaps even a co-defendant!:fish:

Pray my Brother, Pray.