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TechnoratiLONDON - Medical reports seen by IPS appear to confirm the testimony of IPS Gaza correspondent Mohammed Omer of physical abuse at the hands of Israelis last month.
Omer said he was physically and mentally abused at the Allenby crossing into Gaza while on his way back from a European tour. In London, he was awarded the Martha Gellhorn prize for investigative reporting.Omer left for Europe through an agreement secured by Dutch diplomats to escort him in and out of Gaza. The abuse was reported Jun. 26 as Omer was searched at the crossing in Israeli custody while a Dutch diplomat waited outside.
According to Omer's testimony, he was forced to strip by an Israeli officer wearing a police uniform. He was pinned down on the floor with a boot on the neck. He says he collapsed during interrogation, and when he came round his eyelids were being forcibly opened. He was then dragged along the floor by his feet by officials of the Israeli security agency Shin Bet.
Omer was taken by ambulance from the Allenby crossing to the Jericho hospital in Palestinian territory in the West Bank. From there he was transferred to Gaza after a few hours.
A note from the Israeli Government Press Office (GPO) denies Omer's account of physical abuse in Israeli custody. "In contradiction to his claims, at no time was the complainant subjected to either physical or mental violence."
But an ambulance report of the Palestinian Red Crescent Society says: "We note finger signs on the neck and chest." A report from the European Gaza Hospital of the Palestinian National Authority's Ministry of Health includes the following notation after examination of Omer: "Ecchymosis (discolouration caused by bleeding underneath, typically caused by bruising) at upper part of chest wall was found."
The report makes these further observations: "Tenderness on the anterior part of the neck and upper back mainly along the right ribs moderate to severe pain," and "by examination the scrotum due to pain varicocele (varicose veins in the spermatic cord) at left side detected and surgery was decided later."
The Israeli GPO note acknowledges that Omer and his baggage were searched "due to suspicion that he had been in contact with hostile elements and had been asked by them to deliver items to Judea and Samaria (towns in the Palestinian West Bank)."
Omer denies he was in touch with "hostile elements" during his lecture tour of Europe. "And there was no question of going to the West Bank," he says. "I only had permission to leave and enter Gaza with Dutch diplomatic escorts, in a closed diplomatic car. I don't deliver items, and in any case I was never headed to the West Bank." Also, the GPO note does not specify what they were looking for.
The Israeli GPO note says further: "Regarding the complainant's collapse, as it were, it should be noted that the paramedic who attended to him found no evidence of a physical cause of collapse. The complainant's behaviour raises doubts as to the sincerity of the situation. In any event, the complainant was sent to an infirmary and an ambulance was ordered for him."
According to an AP report, Dr. Diaa Husseini who examined Omer at the hospital in Jericho, found no signs of physical injury. The report said Dr Husseini found Omer had suffered a nervous breakdown brought on by emotional stress and was given stomach medication and released after two hours.
Dr. Husseini confirmed to IPS, by phone, that he saw no external injuries on Omer. "However, it is possible that he had further internal injuries, but I never examined him for those as he never complained about any internal pain or other injuries," the doctor said.
Omer says Dr. Husseini only gave him intravenous support and prescribed some medicines because he was to leave Jericho within two hours. "I think what Dr. Husseini did was basically to make me stable, which his staff nurse did."
Omer disputes other statements in the Israeli GPO note. "We should point out that there are numerous additional contradictions in the complainant's allegations," the GPO note says. "For example, in the media he reported that he was humiliated, stripped, and that a gun was held to his head. And yet, in his complaint filed with the IDF (Israeli Defence Forces) spokesperson, the complainant complained that two uniformed personnel sprayed his face."
Omer insists: "I was forced at gunpoint to take off my clothes." He had also said to the IDF that "I felt someone putting liquid in my nose and eyes, to wake me up."
In the face of allegations and denials by the Israeli GPO, the focus now shifts to the medical records, which seem to indicate use of force, as Omer had earlier testified.
International press freedom groups have called for an immediate and public investigation of Omer's treatment.
Ahmed Dadou, spokesman from the Dutch Foreign Ministry at The Hague, told IPS shortly after the events, "We are taking this whole incident very seriously as we don't believe the behaviour of the Israeli officials is in accordance with a modern democracy."
Copyright © 2008 IPS-Inter Press Service.
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The glorious Israeli Defense Forces. And we defend the rights of these cowards. Israel does not have a reason to exist.
Just one comment on the thread that comparing Zionists to Nazis is anti-Semitic.
A book I've been reading recently, "Against the Apocalypse: Responses to Catastrophe in Modern Jewish Culture (Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art)" by David G. Roskies, ISBN-10: 0674009150
http://www.amazon.com/Against-Apocalypse-Responses-Catastrophe-Culture/d...
shocked me with the easy way Eastern Europe slipped into pogrom-mode. There wasn't even a need for a "reason" - all it took was a downturn in events, and the Jews were blamed.
Now the current view of the Nazi regime in Germany, is that it was unique, and stands alone in history. Before the Final Solution, and after the Final Solution, genocide was not a policy pursued by governments, or so the current view has it ... I suspect the EUMC (The European Monitoring centre on racism and Xenophobia), is trying to salvage their "national" pride, in saying that comparing the Holocaust in any way to the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians by the Zionists, is anti-Semitism.
But when you understand that in many ways, the Mainz massacre, the Chelmnitsky pogrom, the Odessa pogrom, the Kinishev pogrom, etc, was like the Holocaust, although it was not nearly as comprehensive, then you also understand that the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians, like the ethnic cleansing and massacre of the Circassians, like the ethnic cleansing and genocide of the Armenians, like the massacre of the Hererro, like the Expulsion of the Jews from Christian Spain, etc, is exactly like the expulsion of the Polish Jews that led to the killing of vom Rath that lead to Kristallnacht ...
It is only in details such as the establishment of the death camps, that the Final Solution of the "Jewish Problem" under the Third Reich, differs from the ethnic cleansing ideals of such as Rehavam "Gandhi" Ze'evi. But since Ze'evi referred to Arabs as a "cancer" we should not imagine that his extremism was any more pleasant to receive.
Now Letto, you mention:
"That you truly believe that Nazi Germany was a tiny country, surrounded by 22 large Jewish state voe to annihilate Germany, and that the Jews who lived in Germany fired thousands of missiles, thousands of terrorist attacks and hundred of suicide bombing against German civilians."
I suspect you don't understand the link the Nazi Party of the Third Reich made between Jews, "international" bankers, and "International" Communism. And so, you're not particularly well equipped to handle the same sort of racist stupidity when it pops up again in this current world. In particular, when it pops up in the shape of a link between Arabs, Muslims, "international" oil, and the like. The "Christian" Crusades always started off massacring the local Jews, before they got off to massacring the distant Muslims.
Think.
In short, Letto, goose2, etc, you lack knowledge of Jewish history, if you think there are not instructive points of comparison between the current crisis in Israel/Palestine and the horrors of the Final Solution in 1941-45.
Goose as in "goosestepping?"
I respect the Jewish Master Race and the Final Solution zat zee yewish have embraced for Palestine.
Zee "Araboushkin" (Israeli for 'nigger')must die. Vee teach zee Chosen Children; zay SIGN Zee Bombs vee drop on da ARABOUSHKIN!
Zay Are Not Human.
Letto, you of course are correct. The Republicans of the left here don't understand history at all. Never have. Calling the current situation a holocaust is silly and makes the speaker a little less of a person every time they say it. What is happening in Palestine and Israel is bad and it needs to change, but the Palestinians need to stop shooting and the Israelis will as well. Firing rockets and morters the day after a cease fire is signed speaks clearly for the "peace" the Palestinains want to have.
>>Omer said he was physically and mentally abused at the Allenby crossing into Gaza while on his way back from a European tour.<<
Nice geography, the Allenby crossing is from the West Bank to Jordan not to Gaza.
By doing so, there are only two possible logical options.
1. That Israel systematically killed millions of Palestinians (perhaps 90% of the Palestinians, similar to what the Nazis did in Poland,) in extermination camps and crematoriums. An option which, with the luck of any other words, makes you a very stupid uninformed person.
2. That you truly believe that Nazi Germany was a tiny country, surrounded by 22 large Jewish state voe to annihilate Germany, and that the Jews who lived in Germany fired thousands of missiles, thousands of terrorist attacks and hundred of suicide bombing against German civilians. And when the war broke, Germany, killed as little as 5,000 to 10,000 Jews in what is now known as the Nazi Holocaust.
If the 2nd logical option is true - that makes you a holocaust denier.
In any case, the EUMC (The European Monitoring centure on racism and Xenophobia) Would describe the likes of you as pure, hard -core anti-Semites.
http://eumc.europa.eu/eumc/material/pub/AS/AS-WorkingDefinition-draft.pd...
Read the definition of antisemitism, especially the following part:
"Drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis. "
And before you dismiss the EUMC, please be noted that thge EUMS is a European Union body. The European Union is home to 495 million people. Most of them had this thing called - A BRAIN.
And to all the other holocaust deniers who revert to blunt lies and racism - Another link, between the Palestinians and the Holocaust
http://images.google.ca/images?hl=en&resnum=0&q=Haj%20Amin%20al%20Hussei...
And if CD will block me, Jew who lost 80% of his relatives in the Holocaust, just for putting a mirror in front of you, and calling Evil by its name - So be it. YOU PIECE OF SHIT RACIST LAIRS.
lisa3210peace, You should call yourself - Lisa321WAR_TO_DAEMONIZE_ISRAEL_BY_LIES
How can you compare the Israeli Palestinian conflict to the Nazi holocaust. How can you be such an evil heartless racist to a fellow human being, by spreading blunt lies which are so easy to disprove by any main stream historian. (Unless of course you think Jews are not Humans)
How can you get as low as compare this:
http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=The+holocaust&btnG=Google+Search&met...
to this:
http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=The+israeli+Palestinian+conflict&btn...
biwee has it dead on. Kazar-colonialists is what they are.Our problem in America is how to get together with a plan of action that will effectively reduce their influence/control over American affairs. A recent poll shows that 23% of American Jews vote based on what is beneficial to Israel..not America... good news is that 77% of our Jews are just as American as the rest of us. Hmmm.
biwee, s163; Nice Posts!
But facts supported by eyewitness testimony of Israeli Atrocities will result in THE JEWISH/NAZI/ISRAELIS doing what they do.
Disappearing from the thread.
They are happy to argue shrilly. But smart eyewitness accounts like the two above posts-DEAD SILENCE.
EMPHASIS ON DEAD, AND DEATH.
NAZISM=How the Jews treat the Palestinians.
...if Jews were represented in the Senate in accordance with their numbers in the US population, there would be 3 Jew Senators...instead there are 12.
The constituencies from where these politicians won their seats are overwhelmingly non-Jewish, so their seats actually seem like a mark of harmonious inter-ethnic relations to me. In 60 years of its existence, Israel has had only one token Arab minister, even though "non-Jews" make up more than 20% of it's population.
Apropos your experience in Lebanon, here's something a retired Australian military officer wrote recently:
I was made aware of the arrogance of Israelis when one of my duties was to brief and debrief army officers going to the UN Mission in the Middle East. My briefings were straightforward and impartial, but I was interested in the fact that the young officers were without exception pro-Israeli. "There are the brave Israelis," they exclaimed, "surrounded by evil Arabs intent on destroying their country!" (Or words to that effect.) "Gallant little Israel" was the theme, because it was standing alone against the massed might of the Arab nations. (And true enough, because Egypt and Syria had tried and failed to invade Israel to avenge the treatment of the Palestinians to whom the land belonged--and still belongs, in law.)
I debriefed three of these officers when they returned after their year in UN service. By that time they despised and loathed Israel and Israelis. They told me that without one exception, so far as they knew, their scores of colleagues of all nations represented in the UN Mission had equally forthright views.
Incidentally, Israel has been killing UN peacekeepers and even high ranking diplomats with impunity since it's founding.
Having served with the USN/USMC task forces in Lebanon 82-84, I can assure you that the IDF is a murderous organization that places NO value on non-Jew human life. It is sad that those who suffered genocide are now more than happy to dish it out to the innocent and original inhabitants of Palestine. The Ashkenazi Khazars that form most of the Jew population in Israel are from Poland/Eastern Europe and Russia. They have ZERO connection to the land of Palestine. The true Sephardic semite Jews are treated as second class citizens in Israel by the Khazars. Look at Peres....born in Poland. So, how do the murderous Israelis get away with this?? They whine "antisemite", and practice the ways of Goebbels and Goering. And, in the USA, these Khazars have amassed so much wealth and power (Wall St, Federal Reserve) that they are able to defeat members of the US Congress who want to have AMERICA FIRST. Look at the US Senate.....if Jews were represented in the Senate in accordance with their numbers in the US population, there would be 3 Jew Senators......instead there are 12. Get the picture, Goyim?
Google Jack Bernstein. Israel was founded by terrorists. Checkout the Haganah, and Stern Gang, and the Irgun. Learn about the terrorists Begin and Shamir. To hear a Khazar from Israel talk about "terrorism" is a joke. Finally, Google Solomon Morel, and learn about the ultimate HYOCRITES!
It's as though the Israeli Defense Forces use a leftover Gestapo manual when it comes to Palestinians.
Israeli Army officers now ask their men to study tactics used by the Nazis in suppressing the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising:
If our job is to seize a densely packed refugee camp or take over the Nablus Casbah, and if this job is to be given to an Israeli officer to carry out without casualties he must before all else analyse and bring together the lessons of past battles, even--shocking though this might appear--to analyse how the German Army operated in the Warsaw Ghetto.
lisa3210peace, "the Nazi's said the Jew was responsible
Letto, that person was then, and is now, you."
I'm deeply disappointed. You have stepped to a very low point, I was naive enough to believe that you are a decent person who may actually examine evidence before passing judgment. I'm sorry to say, but you lost my respect.
What you basically say now is that 7,000 + rockets fired from Gaza at Israeli civil targets is nothing but a fairy tale.
That the 100+ suicide bombing who killed scores of children - is an illusion. And that the thousands of Israelis who were killed by Palestinian terror, is nothing but a figure of my imagination.
http://www.btselem.org/english/statistics/Casualties_Data.asp?
Category=6®ion=ISRAEL
And to add to all of that - now you call me, a Nazi just for the "crime" of bringing evidence which doesn't support your hate agenda?
Here is what the European Monitoring center on racism and Xenophobia has to say about people who are comparing Israelis, or Jews who lives in North America (like me) to Nazis.
http://eumc.europa.eu/eumc/material/pub/AS/AS-WorkingDefinition-draft.pd...
"Applying double standards by requiring of it (Israel) a behavior no expected or demanded of any other democratic nation.
However, criticism of Israel similar to that leveled against other country cannot be regard as antisemitic."
"Drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis. "
It's as though the Israeli Defense Forces use a leftover Gestapo manual when it comes to Palestinians. The shoes been on the other foot for awhile now. I used to be an ardent supporter of Israel until the Lebanon War in 1982. My opinion on the issue of the Palestinians and Israelis were confirmed further in the fall of 2000 when I heard an American Jew talk on a radio program (KKUP FM, Santa Clara, California) about how she witnessed events that summer and early fall in Israel/Palestine. She left Israel in disgust!
Now I imagine someonhe out there is going to say I'm anti-Semetic. Bullshit: I hate bullies, and that's all there is to it, and I can't stand hypocrisy! There are those in Israel who want true peace with the Palestinians, and plenty of American Jews who don't approve of the Likud Party, and think it's fascist. Yeah, I know, some work for Pacifica Radio, and they are called self-haters by the haters!
Didn't take Letto much time to come out and tell his Zionist fairy tales. Contrary to what this little Zionist troll says about Palestinians enjoying their full rights in Zionist Fantasy Land, the truth is Palestinians are subjected to state supported terrorism by the Zionist goons 24/7. What's chilling is that the Zionist Government Press Office (GPO) uses Zionist fantasy names like "Judea" and "Samaria" to describe Palestinian lands. Zionist "Israel" is a menace to world peace and must be put on a permanent time out.
Human beings behave so badly when placed in situation of abusive power. Whether Israeli police, army, US Airport security, Gestapo, Abu Graib prison guards, the US justice system, Gitmo, the story seems always to be of a similar sort. The blame is not necessarily human nature, it is the way the situation was designed, and grew, and is allowed to continue, because not enough people care for those being abused. The chain of responsibility comes from at the top, or nowhere else at all. Nothing can or will be done, unless victims have direct means of redress from those in charge of the abusers. It represents the systematic wealth and power stratification of society, the meanest and most vile of pecking orders, the basest animal instincts of the true bestial consciousness of mankind. As we treat each other, so we treat the world of Gaia, and so too shall we be judged through the turns of fortune.
Letto, once upon a time there was a conflict,
Called World War Two
Some were killed there, some were Jew
At the time the Nazi's said the Jew was responsible
Letto, that person was then, and is now, you.
Letto: I think the Palestinians bare total responsibility for endlessly leaping in front of Israeli machine gun fire.
The children especially. That Jewish girl was responsible for throwing herself under those tank's treads,
The prisoners held by Israel are resposnsible for the Israeli practice of shitting into cloth bags and tying them over the prisoner's heads.
The Palestinians have to be held accountable.
And don't we both know they will be.
Signed, Jenin.
lisa3210peace, have you read my post on
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/07/15/10372/
from July 17th, 2008 2:59 am?
I asked you there if you think Palestinians bare no responsibility what so ever for their own action and condition.
eileenfleming: "Do you know what is more dangerous to the Israeli government than a journalist? A tour guide, for we always tell the truth and cannot be censored!"
"There are 190,000 Palestinian with Israeli ID's but they are all second class citizens. They can vote in municipal elections but not for Parliament. They cannot get a Passport; they must apply for Visa's."
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If you love the truth so much, why avoiding it?
There are 1.2 million Palestinians (about 20% of the citizents) with full Israeli citizenship.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_citizens_of_Israel
They can vote and be elected to the Knesset (The Israeli Parliament) and serve in the government and also obtain an Israeli passport.
What you are probably referring to, are the Palestinian residence of East Jerusalem. When Israel established the Israeli law in East Jerusalem, the Palestinians living there had the option to chose to become Israeli citizens (with full right) or become resident, who enjoy all the social benefit of an Israeli citizen's, without the right to vote, be elected and get a passport. (Similar to a Green Card in the USA or a Permanent resident in Canada). About 90% of them chose to be residents and not citizens.
So you see, these 190,000 are not 2nd degree citizens, but permanent residents.
Israel like their friend and protecter w bush are liers, untrustworthy and deceivers. Trusting them is like trusting satan the devil; what do they think that the world is stupid?
"The zionist trolls can be expected on this thread in 3 hours time, during normal Israeli hours."
LOL ! Any minute now ....
Letto at least says he favors a two-state solution, which contrasts sharply to me with the FINAL SOLUTION Israel is inflicting of the Palestinians and which most Zionist posters brazenly advocate.
For example to use the name Ariel Sharon
Such a PORCINE ugly war criminal mass murderer of women and children and men.
But they're actually not very politically articulate.
They shrill insults.
Then disappear from the thread when confronted with facts.
Like beating and torturing someine then denying it ever happened-HEY! The truth just disappeared.
Where Up is Down.
You mean Letto and bamabanjo ?
The zionist trolls can be expected on this thread in 3 hours time, during normal Israeli hours.
The israeli jews are getting desperate, to lie so brazenly. But notice that the MSM has largley chosen to ignore this story:
http://news.google.com.au/news?hl=en&q=Mohammed%20Omer%20beaten&um=1&ie=...
I see no mention in the Australian press at all.
Judea and Samaria is what the Israelis call the West Bank. For them, it's always been Israeli territory.
When your worldview is founded on silly notions of the order of 'the Bible is our Mandate', you can call a place with whatever name you like.
What Israel hates most are truth tellers.
In January 2005, during my second [of five] journeys to Israel and occupied Palestine, seven Americans and a Brit, rode in a van through the Kidron Valley on the un-maintained bumpy winding narrow roads that Palestinians must go, in order to reach Jericho and the Dead Sea.
Our guide was from Beit Jala, a Christian community on the west side of Bethlehem who told us:
"Do you know what is more dangerous to the Israeli government than a journalist? A tour guide, for we always tell the truth and cannot be censored!"
I know it sounds crazy, but on that bus trip through the Kidron Valley, I saw an upside down rainbow that was inverted above the mountain tops.
I wondered if it were a sign from God confirming the fact that in this Orwellian world of Israel and Palestine: wrong has become right.
After the rainbow vaporized from view, my traveling guide continued, "In Israel the only law is the law of the jungle. I have to apply for a permit on a monthly basis to enter Israel but any soldier can deny me access without giving me any reason.
"There are 190,000 Palestinian with Israeli ID's but they are all second class citizens. They can vote in municipal elections but not for Parliament. They cannot get a Passport; they must apply for Visa's.
"In July 2005 the first anniversary of the International Court of Justice's historic ruling affirmed The Wall and All of the settlements are grave violations of human rights and against International Law as well as obstacles to peace. Yet Israel continues to erect The Wall and expand its settlements in the occupied West Bank."
The USA MSM remains MIA regarding the true facts on the ground, but hopefully, Mohammad Omer's encounter with the Israeli occupying forces brutality will help to change that course.
Eileen Fleming, Reporter and Editor WAWA:
http://www.wearewideawake.org/
Author "Keep Hope Alive" and "Memoirs of a Nice Irish American 'Girl's' Life in Occupied Territory"
Producer "30 Minutes With Vanunu" and "13 Minutes with Vanunu"
A mendacious pariah state without shame or conscience.
Judea and Samaria are not towns in the West Bank. Judea and Samaria is what the Israelis call the West Bank. For them, it's always been Israeli territory. The West Bank doesn't exist on Israeli maps.
cedar,
are you an saboteur or just a racist?
Well, this is the month of Jewlie isn't it?
Who you gonna believe?-- the Israeli Government Press Office (GPO), or your lyin' eyes?