Lets vote for an embargo against Israel until they come to an international tribunal for war crime against humanity.

AldoinSF

Apparently, anything that even vaguely resembles the truth about the Middle East constitutes a "hostile position toward Israel."

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Professor Falk is a credit to jews everywhere. Goodness knows jews need people like him. Too many jews today are perceived as the new Nazis, the instigators of World War Three and global nuclear holocaust.

His position on the 9/11 theories makes me understand that he is not just a puppet for the powers that be, and that means his criticism carries weight with me.

"When fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross."
--Sinclair Lewis

So, not even the United Nations is allowed into the Israeli's death camps.
No food, no fuel, no hope and no work for Arabs. Because, every Jew knows, Arbeit macht frei.

Being that any notion of human rights itself (at least for Palestinians) was expelled from Israel long ago, I'd say that this in unsurprising.

When the Palastinian mothers and children are reduced to searching for grass to boil for supper, there should be many UN investigators on the scene, and certainly Senators, Congresspeople, the President-elect and Vice President-elect, the Prime Minister of England, the Queen of England, ecetera, should be speaking strongly to Israeli leadership to stop their Crimes Against Humanity a/k/a in this case the ongoing GENOCIDAL actions against 1.6 million Palestinians sealed within the walls of Gaza.

Conveniently, the 99-plus United Nations resolutions against Israel, many for its abusive, inhumane treatment of Palestinians, have all been vetoed by the United States.

Also conveniently, after recognizing and ratifying on December 21, 2000, the Rome Statute of the International Court of Justice, located at The Hague, both Israel and the United States renounced these signatures in 2002 and withdrew from recognizing the jurisdiction of the International Court and its stringently-argued, carefully-crafted and approved-by-many-nations body of law.

One can only surmise that both the U.S. and Israel had nasty plans ... try the invasion and attack of Iraq and what has followed ... more than 1 million dead Iraqi civilians and chaos, and methodically doing away with the Palestinians as just another nifty Final Solution for too many inferior people ... and whatever other horribles.

Personally, I am sickened by the violence against humanity by the United States, Israel, and the still intact old Colonial power ... Great Britain and a few others.

Never does the exploitation of and the rabid desire for natural resources that other countries have, whether diamonds, gold, oil, natural gas, various minerals, forests, and cheap labor stop. Always a new scheme to control this or that and have power over and TAKE whatever as if it were a right. Such arrogance! Yes, corporations do the dirty work for various countries, but they were given the gift of deregulation starting with Ronald Reagan in the 1980's. Accountability once was important. Now there is just scandal entertainment on the boob tube news, but rarely are those responsible held to account.

What the worst of our and other countries' leadership of the old Colonial mindset do is always excused as "in the national interest." It is not in the national interest, as I see it, to rob, cheat, kill, manipulate, stir up trouble, destroy, grab, oppress, incarcerate, attack, bomb, and create more devastation and chaos in weaker and poorer countries than there ever was before.

If the arrogance and hypocrisy continue like this, and with the kinds of weapons loose on the planet, there will be a flashpoint someday, and most of the human species will cease to be.

Business suits may look grown up, but the way it seems to me by the results, those inside those expensive business suits are unevolved, juvenile, self-serving and truly stupid, despite all the fancy words or letters after their names.

After all this time, the simplest of universal ethics still escapes us. Treat others as we wish to be treated and do not treat others the way we do not wish to be treated. Just imagine if that is the way nations conducted business with each other, and businesses conducted business with each other, and people of all walks of life conducted their life business with others that way.

Out there somewhere a mother and her child are foraging for grass for supper, and in another place a father rolls mud into little balls to feed himself and his children. "It makes the stomach feel better to have something in it," he said, as he popped the mud-ball breakfast into one of his children's mouths.

Unconscionable moments of the first decade of the 21st Century, and it doesn't have to be this way, especially because, I'm quite sure, that more of us know better and are better than this than not.

Does anyone know how many Palestinians have died this year?

Collective Punishment is a War Crime. And Israel is doing just what the Germans did. No food, water, gasoline, medicine. They are murderers. The Gaza strip is a huge Nazi style camp.
Silence is Consent.

Send Sen Joe Lieberman on the front lines in Israel. He should fight for his
country in Israel, he cannot do it here unless he is a spy..

Israel is truly a pathetic place. Why anyone would want to raise their children there is beyond me-unless they love living like this, and with a straight face, no less. They won't have a friend in the world before long, and they don't seem to care one bit. Talk about 'war against all'-it seems to be what they want. They are rushing towards an apocalypse of their own creation-and trying hard as hell to bring the rest of us 'Goyim' with them!
Here's what I have to say to ALL the fundamentalist religious people out there who just can't seem to get along without killing everything around them: Why don't you all just rip out your OWN throats, and be done with it already. Everything you infantile fools touch turns to shit.

I just read that the U.S. gave 2.4 billion dollars to Israel in aid this year, mostly to buy weapons. If that much money is going there, the U.S. must be held responsible for the impossible conditions in Gaza and the other refugee camps that Israel set up to starve out the Arab population, and for the weapons, tanks, rockets, and bombs that maim and kill innocent civilians in those camps.
With that much money heading away from our country, (along with the war in the middle east and other aid packages to countries), it's no wonder that we can't afford reasonable health care, education programs, social services, unemployment benefits, (the list goes on). And I didn't even get started on wall street corporate thieves stealing taxpayer's money.
This country is propping up countries around the world and disregarding it's own citizens, except for the very rich of course.

I haven't read the article yet, only posting the following links, which are to resources that are certainly related enough.

"Jewish Settler Violence in Hebron (Al-Khalil)", (with video, 10:00),
by Haitham Sabbah, sabbah.biz, Dec 15 2008

http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m49609

He links to http://www.HEB2.tv, "HEB2: Experimental Broadcasting out of H2 Hebron", and the website is for making documentaries out of videos taped by Palestinians in Hebron; videos of "Jewish" settler violence against, "of course", the Palestinians and which Sabbah says that the settlers really don't like, being 'afraid' of being caught videotaped.

HEB2.tv apparently started broadcasting only last month, the oldest of the videos I saw there just a few hours ago was originally broadcast Nov. 22nd. Some of the videos are of serious enough length, for a couple of them work out to ... one a little over 94,000 bytes, and the other to over 180,000,000 bytes, but even the shorter ones are long enough to be very informative. I haven't viewed them yet, but expect these to be important.

(I downloaded them using www.OrbitDownloader.com and its Grab++ tool, though Giganology's Gigaget is also supposed to be very good for this and both are freeware. When their video grabbing features don't work, for some videos (finding this at Google, f.e.), then I use www.splandoo.com , while www.zamzar.com is also supposed to be a good site to use for doing downloads or else getting the download links or URLs to copy to Orbit..., say; besides other websites that provide this functionality, but while I only need one and have two bookmarked.

I wanted to do this before seeing the site disappear due to Israeli oppression and the PA too often acting as if for the interests of the rulers of the Israeli government, f.e. Orbit... worked fine, but new users of it may be a little confused, at first, for the user is prompted by OrbitDownloader's Grab++ feature to reload the Web page and then it seems the video has to be also started, once the page is reloaded, after which Grab++ does get the url and then the actual download can be run.)

That's just a tip for anyone who'd be interested.

I figure these must be valuable videos, so to make backups, ... why not?! It's great to finally have adequately high speed internet; having only gotten it last month for the first time.

Anyway, these two above resources, the article by Sabbah and HEB2, will surely be revealing in terms of why it is that the Israeli leadership would want to refuse the UN rights investigator permission to enter the Palestinian territories. It's a little odd though, for the Israeli leadership is hereby making it clear that it has extreme crimes to try to hide from view of the rest of humanity or the world here; humanity not being particularly fitting to say, really, for I said the "rest of humanity", as if including this Israeli leadership, which doesn't resemble anything human at all. They certainly have no grounds upon which to stand in griping about the Holocaust of the WWII era. After all, they're as bad, or worse! I often think 'worse' is the actual reality. And they are the greatest cause of hatreds being generalised against all Jews, as if all of them were in support of these extreme crimes, while many Jews are not, many enough being opposed. True Torah Jews are opposed, and many other Jews, who aren't necessarily religious about their being Jews at all are also opposed.

Similarly when we hear and read words of hatreds against "Americans", as if we're all in support of our government's extreme crimes, rogueness, etcetera, while we definitely are not all in support. Or ... the same with respect to Christians, as if we're all in support of evil, when only some, far too many, but only some are; definitely not all.

I recommend Sabbah's article, to read it, and check out the video he provides. It's also available at http://sabbah.blip.tv/file/1578431/ , for which www.splandoo.com works, while needing to select the blip.tv option or video url format.

In the hope that the people of this forum are open minded and support human right - for all humans, without discrimination of any sort, I will try show a different viewpoint on the subject at hand.

Here is some data on the UN human right Council.
http://www.unwatch.org/site/c.bdKKISNqEmG/b.1518297/k.7483/Human_Rights_Council.htm

Since their creation in 2006, this Council had passed 25 resolutions. 20 of them against Israel (80%), 4 against Myanmar, and 1 against North Korea.
All other 190 UN members had basically been granted immunity from being declared as human right violators by this Council. (Many of whom committed horrible human right violations, some worse by a factor of 1000 when compared to the Israeli Palestinian conflict)

It is clear that there is some biased / double standard in the way the UN human right Council operates. They put extra focus ONLY on Israel, and they do NOT regards all human right victims on this planet as equally worthy of their time.

Richard Falk
In the past, Mr. Falk (A Jew himself) compared Israel's action in Gaze to the Nazi holocaust, which is a complete nonsense. (The Nazi holocaust was somewhat more than a partial siege and an occasional killing of Homosexual Gypsies and Jewish militants who were engaged in 8 years of daily rocket and mortar bomb attacks on German civil targets. Additional difference that pops into my mind is the luck of Gas chambers, crematoriums and extermination camps in the Gaza case.)

Also, Mr. Falk mandate was to investigate ONLY Israel's human right violations, and to bluntly ignore the Hamas' human right violations against Palestinians and Israeli civilians.

Peace and equality for all!

Wouldn't it be great if one of the countries that support Israel would make available a large tract of land in their country and allow Israel to relocate. I'm sure the Jewish God wouldn't mind because, as God, he can see everything, everywhere, can't he?

Then the Palestinians, rightfully, would be able to get their land back and the whole Middle East would settle down and it would cease to be a continuing source of war or a potential nuclear holocaust zone.

Just a thought!

www.dangerouscreation.com

Only guilty people can't stand to hear the truth! For shame, Israel!!!

The anti-semitism is getting hard to bear here. Aside from that, no matter how just the Palestinian cause might be to promote the fairy tale that Israel is bad, Palestinians good is Horsefeathers.

There is plenty of blame to go around. As to relocation of the Jews, lets put them back on their on land before they were dispersed. It belongeed to them before it was stolen from them. That seems a simple soulution.

Does the vote of the UN mean nothing by the way?