Israeli-Palestinian conflict (46 Viewers)

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EU delegation urges trial of Israeli war criminals


A high ranking European parliamentary delegation in the Gaza Strip has called for the prosecution of Israeli officials over war crimes in the territory.

The high ranking delegation which includes 60 parliament members of 12 European countries, crossed into the strip on Friday afternoon through Rafah border crossing, Xinhua reported.

Speaking at a press conference at the crossing, British Labor Party legislator, Sir Gerald Kauffim who is also the head of the delegation described the visit as "a message of solidarity with Gaza to end the Israeli siege."

"Our suffering to arrive here is nothing compared with the long suffering of the Gaza Strip population due to the suffocating [and] unfair Israeli siege imposed on them," said Kauffman.

He also called for the prosecution of Israeli officials who had "authorized the use of white phosphorus bombs" against the Palestinians during Tel Aviv's December 2008-January 2009 offensive against the Gaza Strip which left over 1,400 Palestinians dead.

He also expressed support for the attempts by pro-Palestinian groups in Britain to seek arrest warrants for Israeli politicians and army officers in the country.

"We have had a fuss in our country about the inability of certain Israeli politicians to visit Britain for fear of being arrested," said Kauffman adding that "anyone who uses the white phosphorus against civilians must be taken to court for war crimes."

Israel canceled the visit of a delegation of senior military officers to the UK this month after Britain failed to guarantee that they would not be arrested over alleged war crimes.

The incident provoke anger among Israeli officials, who cried that the British legal system's acceptance of pro-Palestinian group's lawsuits was threatening to "undermine relations" between London and Tel Aviv.

Last month, the office of the British Foreign Secretary David Miliband issued a statement and called for an end to the "absurd situation," in which arrest warrants were being issued against Israeli officials.

This is while, a report released by a UN fact-finding team headed by South African Judge Richard Goldstone in September 2009 accused Israeli military forces of war crimes against Palestinians in Gaza.

Based on the report, Israel used disproportionate force and failed to protect civilians during its offensive on the territory.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=116234&sectionid=351020202

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I was watching this delegation on Aljazeera where they focused on a blind British lord who was so emotional when he met a kid that lost his eyes in the last Gaza attack before a year. Does anybody know the name of this lord? I just want to know more about him.

 

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[ReBeL]

Hasib Sabbagh has just left us...

For more info about him...

http://www.hasibsabbagh.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hasib_Sabbagh

 

[ReBeL]

Just a question...

Can anybody give me the names of famous Zionist columnists in Western media?? And if possible, anti-Zionist ones there too?

 

[Martin]

Dude, you're the one interested in this stuff, we don't know any of these people.

 

[IrishZebra]

Oh would you look at that, the EU taking a proactive benevolent role is world politics

 

[ReBeL]

Dude, you're the one interested in this stuff, we don't know any of these people.

Thank you, Martin.

I thought somebody may know other names. I know some names, but I wanted to know if there are other columnists.

 

[ReBeL]

Jordanian charged with blaspheming Egyptian president


Amman - Jordan's State Security Court prosecutor has charged a young Jordanian with "blaspheming" president Egyptian Hosny Mubarak during a recent demonstration in Amman, the pro-government al-Rai newspaper reported Monday. The prosecutor has ordered the 22-year-old man, who was not identified, to be detained for 14 days pending the end of investigations, the paper quoted the suspect's lawyer, Musa Abdullat, as saying.
The defendant was arrested "as he uttered an insult against an Arab head of state" during a demonstration outside the Egyptian embassy against the construction of a steel wall along the Egyptian border with the Gaza Strip, the paper quoted a security source as saying.

http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/...rged-with-blaspheming-egyptian-president.html

 

[IrishZebra]

Fuck Hosny Mubarak, come get me

 

[ReBeL]

Fuck Hosny Mubarak, come get me

That was so brave of you, IZ

I know the arrested guy in person. He is just a normal guy that was fed up with what Mubarak does toward people in Gaza.

 

[IrishZebra]

That was so brave of you, IZ

I know the arrested guy in person. He is just a normal guy that was fed up with what Mubarak does toward people in Gaza.

That's the way I role brah :vinny:

 

[Fred]

Fuck Hosny Mubarak, come get me

 

[Gotte]

[video=metacafe;2518713/closed_zone/]http://www.metacafe.com/watch/2518713/closed_zone/[/video]

Sadly this is the truth.

 

[Eddy]

Fuck him, another useless coward

 

[ReBeL]

'Iran ordered attack on Israeli convoy'


Last week's failed attempt on the lives of Israeli diplomats in Jordan was apparently carried out on instructions from Teheran, sources close to Jordan's General Intelligence Department (GID) revealed on Monday.

Jordanian bombs squad members inspect the site where a bomb targeted a convoy of cars from the Israeli Embassy in Amman, Jordan, Thursday.

The sources said the GID was investigating the possibility that the explosives used in the attack had been smuggled into the kingdom by Iranian diplomats.

The attack itself was apparently carried out by local al-Qaida supporters who received money and explosives from Iran, the sources said.

On Monday, Al-Arabiya reported that an Amman taxi driver was arrested on suspicion of involvement in the bombing.

According to the sources, the GID believes that the attack came in response to the killing of Iranian scientist Prof. Massoud Ali Muhammadi in Teheran last week. Ali Muhammadi was killed by a remote-controlled bomb on a motorcycle.

On Monday, Iran's Interior Minister Mostafa Muhammad Najjar vowed to take revenge on Israel over Ali-Muhammadi's assassination.

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad accused Israel of being behind the assassination, which he said had been carried out in "Zionist style."

The sources in Amman pointed out that the attack on the Israeli diplomatic convoy had been carried out in a way similar to the assault on the slain Iranian professor.

"We can see Iran's fingerprints on the roadside bombing," the sources said. "The investigation is continuing in various directions."

Israel has been on high alert in recent weeks ahead of the second anniversary of the assassination of Hizbullah terror mastermind Imad Mughniyeh in Damascus.

A number of attempts by Hizbullah to avenge Mughniyeh's February 2008 killing have been thwarted, including a plot last year to bomb Israel's embassy in Baku, Azerbaijan, and the Israeli defense establishment is concerned that Hizbullah will make an effort to strike an Israeli target ahead of the anniversary.

Security officials are also considering the possibility that the attack may have been carried out by al-Qaida or one of its affiliates, or a Palestinian terrorist group.

Last year three Hamas activists were sentenced in Jordan to five years in prison for conducting surveillance of the Israeli Embassy in Amman.

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1263147924148&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull

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Jordanian intelligence officers should be forbidden from watching CSI immediately

 

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[ReBeL]

Israel's compassion in Haiti can't hide our ugly face in Gaza


Who said we are shut up inside our Tel Aviv bubble? How many small nations surrounded by enemies set up field hospitals on the other side of the world? Give us an earthquake in Haiti, a tsunami in Thailand or a terror attack in Kenya, and the IDF Spokesman's Office will triumph. A cargo plane can always be found to fly in military journalists to report on our fine young men from the Home Front Command.

Everyone is truly doing a wonderful job: the rescuers, searching for survivors; the physicians, saving lives; and the reporters, too, who are rightfully patting them all on the back. After Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon became the face we show the world, the entire international community can now see Israel's good side.

But the remarkable identification with the victims of the terrible tragedy in distant Haiti only underscores the indifference to the ongoing suffering of the people of Gaza. Only a little more than an hour's drive from the offices of Israel's major newspapers, 1.5 million people have been besieged on a desert island for two and a half years. Who cares that 80 percent of the men, women and children living in such proximity to us have fallen under the poverty line? How many Israelis know that half of all Gazans are dependent on charity, that Operation Cast Lead created hundreds of amputees, that raw sewage flows from the streets into the sea?

The Israeli newspaper reader knows about the baby pulled from the wreckage in Port-au-Prince. Few have heard about the infants who sleep in the ruins of their families' homes in Gaza. The Israel Defense Forces prohibition of reporters entering the Gaza Strip is an excellent excuse for burying our heads in the sand of Tel Aviv's beaches; on a good day, the sobering reports compiled by human rights organizations such as B'Tselem, Gisha - Legal Center for Freedom of Movement, and Physicians for Human Rights-Israel on the situation in Gaza are pushed to the newspapers' back pages. To get an idea of what life is like in the world's largest prison, one must forgo "Big Brother" and switch to one of the foreign networks.

The disaster in Haiti is a natural one; the one in Gaza is the unproud handiwork of man. Our handiwork. The IDF does not send cargo planes stuffed with medicines and medical equipment to Gaza. The missiles that Israel Air Force combat aircraft fired there a year ago hit nearly 60,000 homes and factories, turning 3,500 of them into rubble. Since then, 10,000 people have been living without running water, 40,000 without electricity. Ninety-seven percent of Gaza's factories are idle due to Israeli government restrictions on the import of raw materials for industry. Soon it will be one year since the international community pledged, at the emergency conference in Sharm el-Sheikh, to donate $4.5 billion for Gaza's reconstruction. Israel's ban on bringing in building materials is causing that money to lose its value.

A few days before Israeli physicians rushed to save the lives of injured Haitians, the authorities at the Erez checkpoint prevented 17 people from passing through in order to get to a Ramallah hospital for urgent corneal transplant surgery. Perhaps they voted for Hamas. At the same time that Israeli psychologists are treating Haiti's orphans with devotion, Israeli inspectors are making sure no one is attempting to plant a doll, a notebook or a bar of chocolate in a container bringing essential goods into Gaza. So what if the Goldstone Commission demanded that Israel lift the blockade on the Strip and end the collective punishment of its inhabitants? Only those who hate Israel could use frontier justice against the first country to set up a field hospital in Haiti.

True, Haiti's militias are not firing rockets at Israel. But the siege on Gaza has not stopped the Qassams from coming. The prohibition of cilantro, vinegar and ginger being brought into the Strip since June 2007 was intended to expedite the release of Gilad Shalit and facilitate the fall of the Hamas regime. As everyone knows, even though neither mission has been particularly successful, and despite international criticism, Israel continues to keep the gates of Gaza locked. Even the images of our excellent doctors in Haiti cannot blur our ugly face in the Strip.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1143313.html

 

[JBF]

But Zarqawi made many unjustified acts in Jordan and Iraq, and Ben Laden and Dhawaheri said nothing about it, and kept praising him until he died.

True, He served them in Iraq by recruiting new members more than he did harm. Or at least that what Bin Ladin thought at that time.

Yesterday, after 15 years of signing peace treaty between Jordan and Israel, Jordanian authorities allowed 2500 Israeli goods to enter Jordanian market with no taxes at all.

The reaction was so quick this morning. A bomb targeted the car of three Israeli diplomats in Jordan.

Great reaction hoping next time they will not go unhurt.

Reb, ballah ma howeh inta

Just a question...

Can anybody give me the names of famous Zionist columnists in Western media?? And if possible, anti-Zionist ones there too?

If you read AlGhad you'll find out many of both sides. On of them isn't in the zionist section but in the international one. He simply is Great.

 

[Bjerknes]

Start listening from 50 seconds on.


"Should Israel pay back the $60 billion they illegally took from US Taxpayers over the last decade?"

Well of course they should, those murderous thieves.

 

[Bjerknes]

If Israel pays us back our $60 Billion, that would mean we could offer a payout to every single citizen of the United States of approximately $250. For some, that would be a month's worth of food. For others, that would mean a shopping trip. Either way, such a handout would actually do some good for the economy and help our own suffering citizens. But they don't care about that.

IsraHELL. Gotta love 'em or else you're a terrorist.

 

[ReBeL]

Reb, ballah ma howeh inta

If you read AlGhad you'll find out many of both sides. On of them isn't in the zionist section but in the international one. He simply is Great.

I want Western columnists.