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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8I nominate Jon as Revolotioanary Travel Agent for July :-)
He knows whats going on Hopefully we will meet soon xxx
It seems to have disappeared from view in Belfast.
When you are " speaking about Palestine and about breaches of international law over the years " will that include suicide bombing and the deliberate murder of Israeli children?
I mean you wouldn't want anyone to think you were a bunch of Jew-hating pro-terrorist hypocrites now would you?
Yes of course all indiscriminate killing is wrong but my question to you is do you consider Israel to be a terrorist state
Watchdog slams Israel rights abuse
By Laila El-Haddad in Gaza
Wednesday 25 May 2005, 21:47 Makka Time, 18:47 GMT
Amnesty has accused Israel of crimes against humanity
An international human rights group has accused Israel of committing abuses that constitute crimes against humanity and war crimes.
The annual report by the human rights watchdog group Amnesty International (AI) criticised the Israeli use of Palestinians as human shields, extra-judicial killings, systematic house demolitions, torture, collective punishment and closures and deliberate killing of civilians.
Some 700 Palestinians were killed by Israeli occupying forces last year alone, an increase from the previous year's figure of 600, according to the report. About 150 of these were children, many killed deliberately and unlawfully, charged the watchdog group.
"Many were killed in deliberate as well as reckless shooting, shelling and bombardment of densely populated residential areas or as a result of excessive use of force," said the group.
"Certain abuses committed by the Israeli army constituted crimes against humanity and war crimes"
The report also said some 109 Israelis, most of them civilians and including eight children, were killed by Palestinian armed groups in bombings, shootings and mortar attacks inside Israel and in the occupied territories.
But AI also accused the Israeli army of granting impunity to soldiers and settlers whose crimes against innocent Palestinians went unpunished.
"In the overwhelming majority of the thousands of cases of unlawful killings and other grave human rights violations committed by Israeli soldiers in the previous four years, no investigations were known to have been carried out," the report stated.
House demolitions
The group went on to attack Israel 's policies of house demolitions in the southern Gaza Strip, where the Israeli army destroyed 300 homes and damaged about 270 others in a refugee camp in Rafah, leaving close to 4000 Palestinians homeless
"Routine destruction of Palestinian homes, land and property in the West Bank and Gaza Strip was stepped up in the biggest wave of house demolitions in the Gaza Strip since the beginning of the intifada," said the report.
Amnesty further criticised Israel's continual expansion of the illegal separation wall and increased attacks by Jewish settlers against Palestinians and international activists, and the destruction of their property and crops.
Separation Wall
"The wall and hundreds of Israeli army checkpoints and blockades throughout the occupied territories continued to hinder or prevent Palestinians' access to their land, their workplaces and to education, health and other crucial services," wrote the group.
The Hague-based International Court of Justice ruled unlawful the construction by Israel of a barrier inside the occupied West Bank last July.
The Israeli army declined to comment on the report.
In a chapter devoted to the Palestinian Authority, the human rights group said security officials were involved in fighting between various resistance groups, which killed dozens of Palestinians.
According to AI, 18 Palestinians were killed in the clashes after they were suspected of collaboration with Israel.
The excuses
The report further criticised the United States for disregarding rule of law worldwide and turning a blind eye to Israeli excesses in the name of "counter-terrorism".
"The USA, as the unrivalled political, military and economic hyper-power, sets the tone for governmental behaviour worldwide. When the most powerful country in the world thumbs its nose at the rule of law and human rights, it grants a licence to others to commit abuse with impunity and audacity," read the report.
"From Israel to Uzbekistan, Egypt to Nepal, governments have openly defied human rights and international humanitarian law in the name of national security and 'counter-terrorism," it concluded.
Uproar
The report has caused an uproar in Israel, with Yahad (Meretz) lawmaker Zahava Gal-On on Wednesday calling for an urgent Knesset debate following its publication.
The Israeli government, meanwhile, accused the human rights watchdog group of holding a "very one-sided and extremist position".
Eimat Hurvitz of Amnesty International's Israeli office, rejected such claims, saying that Israel is judged by the same standard as other nations.
Hurvitz told Aljazeera.net: "These are not new definitions [of war crimes], they are taken from the Nuremburg trial after the Holocaust that brought to trial Nazi leaders: crimes that are perpetrated against civilians and that are part of a systemic policy."
He gave the example of the Israeli assassination of Palestinians as a policy that "takes into account civilians deaths but doesn't take them into account".
In the end, Hurvitz said definitions are not important; abiding by the report is.
"What's important is how do we in next year, what's important is to have less attacks against civilians or minimise such attacks. We hope Israel and the Palestinian Authority will read it and try to incorporate some of the issues into their actions, and not only try to defy it or explain why it is wrong."
Terrorists are bastards. And what percentage of the Palestinians have ever been terrorists??? Something like .00038%. And .00038% of Palestinians liberating thier homeland from ZIonist crusaders DOESN"T give Zionists ANY birthright of murderous theft of ANY portion of the Palestinian's homeland. And the "terrorists/freedomfighters are still acting out of the extream duress of ZIonists continuing to be murderous theives of Palesatinian lands.
Zionist enablers want you to see that Palestinian "terrorists" kill ZIonist children. They don't want you to know that it is the ZIonist's offenses that created all the hostilities ZIonists suffer.
If someone were to come into your home and takes your television set God, then that person would be a thief. And if you tried to sto[p the thief's crimes against you, only for the thief to pull a gun and blow your brains all over your family, and still steals your survivor's TV set God, then that thief is a murderer as well.
That is what ZIonists have been doing all along and are still doing, even as you read these words.
Well, what if the thief that tried to steal your TV set god tried to blow your brains out but missed and you blow his brains out. Would you be called a murderer, as ZIonists claim of Palestinian freedom fighters? And if the thief were to bring his children along on his criminal activities. Would you be a murderer if the thief's children were killed while the parent engadged in offenses against you? No. It is the thief's offense and all the hostilities created by his offense is his responsability, just as it is the ZIonists who sacrifice thier children for conquest who are to blaim for the hostilities that thier offenses created.
It might suck that the ZIonist's children become victims of ZIonist offenses. But ZIonists sacrificing thier own children doesn't change a damned thing. I guess that is why bank robbers don't bring thier kids along on hiests. If thier kids get killed in any hostilities his offenses create, they would be blaimed for getting his kids killed. Zionists and thier enablers sometimes get away with scapegoating the victims of ZIonism. Othertimes, thier prejudises get exposed for what they are.
Some good comments posted so far!!
Quietly now lets not the Trolls climb out of those other 'discussions' they are having with themselves...shhshshhhhh
The way Im hearing a lot of the heads that would be interested in getting over have made commitements to and are actively building a nice welcome commitee for the Gang of 8....
so...after we play a round of golf or two at the local rich mans club...are there any bodies interested in catching up with the Caravan...
and having a wee tour to the wall..cause theres gonna be a few locals wanting to go home...a large international solidarity should get the wee lads and lassies home for a change...
Sure what else would you be doing!!!
I always see ss as a most misfortunate moniker as I have learnt as i noticed somewhere else we have a SS supporter lurking can I appeal to ye all to call it by the name it was christened.. I recieved a kinda weird email from some confused person who whought it was some nazi thatcherite mag....
Thank you for your interest in Street Seens visibility in Belfast, ive been wondering much the same! I see it about but that would come naturally to me. Its about friend and the next one will be hitting the bould streets in the next week or two..you might see it about or you kindly could give us some ideas on how to do it somewhat better... I think you really have something to say...you may tell me directly tis easier that way!
oh and JANE street seen is not a front for revolutionary travel agents...yet!!! would be a cool concept though :-) except for SS Tours is so gonaa attract the wrong kinda clientele...