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U.N. Rights Body Endorses Gaza War Crimes Report
GENEVA - The U.N. Human Rights Council endorsed on Friday a Gaza report that accused both Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas of committing war crimes.
A Palestinian man walks past a house, damaged during the three-week offensive Israel launched last December, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip September 16, 2009.
(Photo/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa) In a special session, 25 of the body's members voted in favor of the resolution that chastised Israel for failing to cooperate with the U.N. mission led by South African jurist Richard Goldstone. Another 6 voted against and 11 abstained.
Both Israel and Hamas have rejected the charges in the 575-page Goldstone report, which is most critical of the Jewish state's actions in the December-January war.
The report calls for the U.N. Security Council to refer the matter to the International Criminal Court if the Israelis or Palestinians fail to investigate the alleged abuses themselves.
But the resolution agreed in Geneva simply calls for the U.N. General Assembly to consider the Goldstone report and for U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to report back to the Human Rights Council on Israel's adherence to it.
Such moves would at a minimum keep up pressure on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who Washington is trying to convince to commit to a "two-state solution" that previous Israeli governments have signed up to.
U.S. OPPOSED
The breakdown of the Human Rights Council vote was not immediately released, but the United States had said it would vote against the resolution that was drafted by the Palestinians with the support of Egypt, Nigeria, Pakistan and Tunisia on behalf of non-aligned, African, Islamic and Arab nations.
A spokesman for British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said on Friday that Netanyahu had urged Brown to have Britain vote against the resolution, not abstain as it was expected to do.
Israel's ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva, Aharon Leshno Yaar, said just before the vote that the resolution was starkly imbalanced and failed to encourage the negotiation of peace in the Middle East.
The U.S. charge d'affaires in Geneva, Douglas Griffiths, said that Washington would vote against the recommendation because it failed to consider wrongdoings by Hamas and slammed Israel with "sweeping conclusions of law."
Taher al-Nono, spokesman of the Hamas government in Gaza, said Hamas would investigate the recommendations of the report but said nothing about the report's charges against Hamas.
"The Palestinian government welcomes the endorsement on the Goldstone report and thanks the friendly countries which voted in favor of the report," he said. "We hope that the vote may be the beginning of the prosecution of the leaders of the occupation."
The Human Rights Council had agreed during its last regular session to postpone discussion on the Gaza report under pressure from Washington aimed at getting the Middle East peace process back on track.
But Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas came under sharp criticism for agreeing to the delay, leading to the request for a special session on the topic.
Additional reporting by Matt Falloon and Nidal al-Mughrabi; Editing by Jonathan Lynn and Samia Nakhoul.
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Show All"The U.S. charge d'affaires in Geneva, Douglas Griffiths, said that Washington would vote against the recommendation because it failed to consider wrongdoings by Hamas and slammed Israel with 'sweeping conclusions of law.'"
Because the report explicitly condemns Hamas' use of rockets against citizen populations, this statement is clearly false.
I wonder if any maintream US journalist will have the guts to call the administration on this bald-faced lie.
"Sweeping conlusions of law" may be the slackest phrase that I've read in a long time.
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I am ashamed of my government, not surprised but ashamed. We have "leaders" (and I use that word advisedly), who do not have the courage to do the "right thing". Our governments here in the UK and US continually lecture the rest of the World, about liberty, freedom and the war on terrorism. They also tell us about "oppressive regimes", and point the finger at North Korea and Iran. When was the last time that Iran constantly threatened its neighbours, slaughtered women and children, and managed to ignore all of the UN resolutions passed against it?
I wonder what kind of hold Israel has over the US and the UK, and I also wonder where all of Israel's nuclear missiles are pointing - some at Iran for sure, some at its Arab neighbours for sure. How do we know that some are not pointed at London, Paris, Rome, Berlin, Madrid?
The countries who voted against this resolution, and the ones who abstained, are cowards, and it is directly because of their lack of courage, that the "problem" in the Middle East, the "Palestinian problem" will not be solved any time soon.
Dreaming...
Governments and armies couldn't care less about civilian deaths and "collateral damage". It is just "the regretable cost of war".
I wonder if there is any way to change that. Governments do care a lot about their pocketbooks. After 9/11, the families of each of the victims were offered over a million dollars in compensation. Using this standard, Israel should be required to pay approximately $2 billion in reparations to the families in Gaza. The US would be required to pay over $1 Trillion to the people of Iraq and Afghanistan. Additional compenstation would be required for property damage.
Such a policy would put a quick end to the "sport" killings of civilians by the Blackwater goons.
But like I said, I am just dreaming. Justice will never be served in these conflicts. And without justice, there will never be peace.
RE: The U.S. charge d'affaires in Geneva, Douglas Griffiths, said that Washington would vote against the recommendation because it failed to consider wrongdoings by Hamas and slammed Israel with "sweeping conclusions of law."
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Sweeping conclusions of law.
I guess we should now stop calling for prosecutions of serial murderers, because, would that not have a sweeping conclusion of law somewhere?
God forbid the USA actually honors the sweeping conclusions of international law.
Heck of a job Barry
Keep talking pretty to the peanut gallery as you destroy all semblance of civilization.
Every time I travel back home to Aboud, nearby Ramallah, people keep asking me about why the US does this, or that, in regard to our situation in Palestine.
I have to say that it's extremely frustrating not to have an answer to those questions because, after all, I want people to appreciate the good ol' US of A.
I want them to find inspiration in it in the same way I have.
But how on Earth can you excuse a 42 year-old military occupation with no end in sight?
How can I explain the mindset of over 95% of elected officials at the House and the Senate who will side with Israel no matter how gruesome, how irrational, how demented their policies are?
How is it possible for the US to be so passionate about international law when it comes to, say, Iraq, but then it couldn't care less about it when it comes to Israel?
And then many Americans get all bitter and angry when Palestinians and the rest of the Middle East don't show any appreciation for American-style democracy.
Why, oh why, is the US doing this to itself?
The whole thing is so sad and depressing I don't even know why I bother to post my thoughts anymore.
Because the real wheeling and dealing is done in back rooms you'll never see, by people whose names you'll never hear. The stuff that makes the news is a front, reheased lines recited by puppets. These lefty web sites understand more about what is really going on, but often too late and too fragmentarily (is that a word?), and while the occasional defector offers a glimpse into the back room machinations, it hasn't - so far - been enough to mobilize mass dissent.
Just realize that if you see an image in the news, it's a pose; if you hear a statement, it's a pose. It's all a pose to keep us comfortable and aligned with the prevailing powers and their agendas.
I know some of what you feel - I've reached the conclusion that everything I'm allowed to see is false, mere theatre. Somewhere, someone is making truckloads of money and thinks a few million dead (fill in the blank to suit yourself)_______s are worth it. In fact, didn't Albright articulate that when challenged on the human costs of Iraq.01? Albright, who herself had been rescued from the ravages of the Holocaust. Even for her, the moral dots are too far apart.
The romantic imagery of the US is illusory. As a political entity, it is a deeply flawed and immoral creature, as sociopathic as its political and business leaders. But I have met many lovely Americans face-to-face, and one of their biggest redeeeming features is their openness to being criticized. amazing, really.
The Europeans are no better - worse even, because they are more skilled at preserving the illusion. Their monumental cowardice in the face of the Nakba points to their collusion in the crimes and their own moral shallowness.
The main industry, and the one that is surviving the current crash, is the military/weapons industry and its handmaiden, Wall Street - that should tell you something, everything you need to know to preserve your sanity. You don't expect moral clarity from a sociopath: put that hope aside, and you will be less disappointed.
When you travel back to your home in Aboud, you can tell them, "Because no one in the MIC cares as long as there is $$$ to be made on the devastation of others."
I wish you and your family a better outcome.
Does our government ever see beyond today or tomorrow? Why would the Palestinians ever trust the Americans with brokering a peace between Israel and them? They have to know that it would be a sham. With our uncompromising support of the Netanyahu government and of Olmert's before that, we are like parents raising a child without discipline, without guidance, a child who gets everything he/she wants, and we know what kind of adult that child grows into: a demanding, narcissistic, belligerent, 'poor me', sociopathic horror. At 60 years of age, Israel is no longer a spoiled child-- it is on the threshold of becoming a pariah among the world of nations.
I can't help believing that both countries as they exist today are doomed.
" threshold" ? It is the definition of pariah !
I agree.
When will the USA be called to the carpet for THEIR war crimes by the UN, which include flouting the UN Charter itself,(starting an unecessary a war of agression against a fellow UN Member state..Iraq) and the Geneva Conventions (torturing prisoners)?????
Or is the USA like the banks? Too Big to prosecute
"The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing, to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts." - John Keats
Read it and weep:
"I spoke with the head military lawyer of the IDF [Israeli Defense Force], Joel Zinger, and I said 'You know, I'm two weeks here, and it's clear you people are inflicting Nuremberg crimes on the Palestinians, exactly what the Nazis did to the Jews. What's your explanation?' He said 'Military necessity'. Notice, he didn't disagree with me. I said 'That argument was rejected at Nuremberg when the lawyers for the Nazis made it.' So then he said, "Well, we have public relations people in the United States, and they handle these matters for us.' " -Francis Boyle, Professor of International Law, University of Illinois
Note: You can see this in a 6 minute video here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVBIzu4YvnE
Here is the vote roll from AlJazeera.net/news.
For: Argentina, Brazil, China, Russia, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Bolivia, Chile, Cuba, Djbouti, Egypt, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Jordan, Mauritius, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, South Africa and Zambia
Against: US, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Slovakia and Ukraine
Abstentions: Belgium, Bosnia, Burkina-Faso, Cameroon, Gabon, Japan, Mexico, Norway, South Korea, Slovenia and Uruguay
No vote: UK, France, Madagascar, Kyrgyzstan and Angola
At last a few European countries now have the guts to abstain or "no vote"(?).
And look at South America, which is at last coming into its own. I think that south is the kind of American I want to be.
It looks to me like they didn't print the entire quote.
It should have read, "The US is 'sweeping conclusions of law' under the rug."
· Yr Obd't Servant
Hooray!
Israel's Victimhood License has expired. Now is the time for the Palestinians to get their lands back.
"Enough with the analysis! We are dieing in Palestine and everything is clear! We need an American Intifada [Arabic for rise up and cast off].-Stated Reverend Naim Ateek, Founder of Sabeel [Arabic for The Way] Ecumenical Liberation Theology Center which is based in Jerusalem with a global congregation of progressive Christians seeking a just peace in Palestine Israel; which equates to an end to the occupation, human rights for all and the honoring of international law, on Oct. 3, 2009 in D.C. during Sabeel's 28th regional conference, which began on Oct. 1 with Richard Falk, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Occupied Territories who said:
"The initial chapter of Obama's diplomacy shows no change of the unconditional alliance with Israel which takes precedence over a fair outcome.
"Although discouraging, it is in one sense fortunate that it did not produce new negotiations; for failed negotiations only raise hopes temporarily but worsen the cycle of despair and violence. It is futile to enter negotiations with this government and not talk about refugees, settlements and Jerusalem.
"At this stage it is a fundamental mistake to look for Government solutions and traditional diplomacy. Look instead to the activation of Civil Society, such as solidarity with BDS.
"There was nothing new in the Goldstone Report's substantive findings, so why was Israel so hysterical? This is the first time they haven't ignored the UN as irrelevant.
"When the International Court of Justice ruled The Wall was illegal Israel-supported by the USA government- didn’t even bother to respond.
"The US government is aligned with Israel against the Goldstone Report to maintain the status quo, but the report confirmed in a variety of ways the war against Gaza was inconsistent with international law for infrastructure was targeted. Hamas also is seriously guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
"The nature of Israel's response was politics deflection; no discussion of the allegations, but pointing to the messenger to avoid the message. It is the rule of force over the rule of law and geopolitics trumped human rights.
"The grounds for hope are in the history of the last 75 years that shows that military approaches do not succeed in successful political outcomes. America won every battle in Vietnam, but lost the war.
"The people running the government still subscribe to political realism; military power. Afghanistan proves militarism doesn't work, but we keep reinventing failure. We talk human rights but still engage in military interventions.
"Only progressive forces in civil society recognize this and understand the symbolic battlefield of morality and the legitimacy war. Shifting expectations from institutions and government onto the global battlefield of legitimacy will determine destiny.
"There is potency in nonviolence as proved by Gandhi but anti-apartheid strategies doesn't mean we will see a just outcome; look at Tibet, but it is the only path.
"It is the Politics of Impossibility that can project the unimaginable. No one expected Nelson Mandela to be released from jail or the collapse of the USSR.
"This set of circumstances requires the art of the impossible and the war is waged in the consciences of people which makes it so powerful.
"The Legitimacy War gives me hope that Palestine will receive justice and there will be peace.
"The traditional institutions are limp and the UN Charter is an illusion as a way forward in the conflict. That is the signal to Civil Society to act for no leadership should be given impunity for what amounts to war crimes. They must be held accountable and the call is for national governments and institutions to implement international law and universal jurisdiction."
The rest:
http://www.wearewideawake.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1447&Itemid=225
Israel has been found guilty of war crimes. They have set themselves above international law and all other nations with their refusal to cooporate with the Goldstone Committee and the U.N. Human Rights Council. The war criminals of Bosnia and Croatia along with Saddam Hussein were not allowed to casually dismiss their accusations of war crimes. Neither should Israel be allowed to escape accountability and punishment for theirs.
Israel has refused to join the IAEA, sign a nuclear non-proliferation treaty and allow inspections of their nucelar facilities. Israel refuses to stop the illegal construction of settlements in the occupied Palestianian territories. Israel has engaged in ethnic cleansing and apartheid policies for deacades with impunity. Israel must be isolated by all other nations and brought to account for their violations of international law and numerous crimes against humanity. the only thing one-sided is Israel's 62 year history to adhere to the same international laws every other nation is held to and their consistent whine of everybody picking on them. This "chosen people" business has gone on for way too long. That has got to be one of the most extreme racist points of view in the history of mankind.
Israel still pushes its agenda of lying and fabricating events so as to advance its Zionist agenda of a "Greater Israel".
Just recently Israel released video of what they claimed were Hizbollah terrorists loading long range rockets off trucks in Lebanon.
Using much the same language as they did against the Palestinians in Gaza and as they do to try and Justify an attack on Iran, they claimed this as proof that the Governmnet of Lebanon was not doing anything to restrain Hizbollah and that Israel would have to act on its own.
As it turns out, the rockets they claimed a drone filned "terrorists loading into trucks" were sliding doors and furniture.
Exodus chapter 12, verse 12 tells about the racial infanticide committed by the angel hit man working for jehovah. This is called passover and is annually celebrated as a major part of the jewish mythology. The modern version of passover is that god passes over the jews and kills the gazans next door. Actually, god is a major terrorist and should be hunted down and sent to gitmo.
A few points:
The Goldstone report was conceived by the UN Human Rights Council, a biased anti-Israeli political body. (In the three years prior to the decision to investigate the war in Gaza, 80% of their country specific resolutions were against Israel and only 20% were against all other 191 UN members. It has devoted more special sessions to the condemnation of Israel than to the rest of the world combined.) No wonder they chose to investigate only Israel, ignoring all other conflicts and human right violations on this planet, (Georgia, Iraq, Afghanistan and Darfur, to name a few.)
The four members of the Goldstone panel have publically declared that Israel is guilty before the investigation had even begun. One of them, Christine Chinkin, even rejected Israel’s right to self-defence against Hamas rocket attacks. Show me one semi-functional legal system (besides the UN Human Rights Council) where people who publicly declare before a trial that a suspect is guilty, would not be disqualified from being Judges, Jury or Investigators.
The report itself ignored the 10,000 rockets fired by Palestinian militants against Israeli civilian targets before the war. It ignored that the Hamas hide among civilians (The main reason why Palestinian civilian were killed). It ignored the fact the Hamas is a terrorist organization committed to destroy Israel. It ignored the 2,000,000 leaflets and 100,000 phone calls warning Palestinian civilians. It ignored the fact that some operations against Hamas were canceled due to concerns to civilian lives. It ignored the humanitarian aid Israel allowed into Gaza during the conflict.
In short, it’s a biased report, done by biased people, assembled by a biased body.
in his one-minded mission, letto really is cute, like a buffoon in a play....
80% of resolutions against Israel - If that number is true, which I don't believe, you'd first want to examine why 80% of Israel's actions were found to be so offensive. If it's anything, the UN is rather too patient and soft.
But it's the old chestnut, yes - any criticism of Israel is biased.
The Goldstone report made a serious error - it discussed and criticized the actions of the IDF the same as the actions of Hamas. As though they were equally balanced. The death count alone should make that error clear. Hamas aren't exactly innocent angels either, but they are much smaller and far less destructive than the Israeli military. 10,000 qassams - if that number is credible, were distributed over many decades, not dumped all at once - on schools, hospitals, police stations.
Oh BTW, the IDF hide among civilians, too, exactly as Hamas do - they go home for dinner, take in a movie with friends, sleep in the family residence. Shocking. And those fliers are a cynical ploy, a cruel joke - where should people go in such a small area, and in the few minutes available? These are their homes being bombed.
Israel actively aggressively blocked human aid into Gaza during and after the conflict. It's documented. Everyone saw the pictures and videos - this action had so many witnesses all over the world despite Israel's efforts to shut out media. that's why Israel's credibility has been downgraded of late - and high time, too.
What the heck are you smoking???
You can learn more about the UN Human Rights Council here.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Human_Rights_Council
Scroll down to the "Accusations of bias against Israel section."
For someone so consumed with "credibility" and "impartiality" to be peddling Wikipedia as some authoritative source is just good comic relief.
Thanks for the laugh.
To deny that Hamas are firing rockets into Israel, would be to turn a blind eye to the obvious. Equally, to ignore the scale of the Israeli military operations over the past decades would be a crime. I believe that the UN, under the "control" of the US have committed a crime, by ignoring time after time, UN resolutions passed against Israel. The building of settlements has not stopped, it has increased, and the people of Gaza are being kept in concentration like conditions, denied adequate food, medical supplies or power. The latest conflict where 1400 Palestinians (mostly women and children) were killed, and around 30 Israelis, highlights the extreme force used by Israel, and it shows their inhumanity and reckless disregard for Palestinian lives.
A few points for “Letto”
Israel is a state founded in the terrorism of the likes of Irgun, Haganah and the Stearn Gang. Just check out what they did at Deir Yassin. Israel is armed to the teeth with everything from Uzi’s to reportedly 300 nuclear weapons fully armed and ready to go. Hamas is not, the best they have are Mickey Mouse Rockets that anyone could knock up in their garden shed
Zionist terrorists, led by Menachem Begin, scored a notable first in the use IED’s when they killed numerous innocent civilians and British Military personnel at the King David Hotel some of whome only eighteen months previously had put a stop to the Holocaust after valiantly fighting the Nazis for 6 long years.
Letto is nothing but a Sayan plant.
If Israel has a right to self defence then by the same token so have the Palestinians.
A ceasefire was in place at the start of the Israeli onslaught on Gaza which Hamas had observed for months. It was Israel who broke this ceasefire with F16 bombing attacks on innocent civilians.
People like “Letto” would have us believe that all this is some kind of equal struggle – it’s not. In UK terms it’s like Watford’s under 13’s Cassio Rangers Football (soccer) team playing the All Blacks (Rugby Union). Not only is there a huge physical disparity but they are playing to completely different rules.
Doubtless “Letto” will come back with the usual diatribe based upon that old chestnut “the Chosen People”.
While s/he is at it please explain the difference between “The Chosen People” and “The Master Race”. Then perhaps they might explain the difference between Lebensraum and Israeli illegal West bank settlements.
Or better still why not take these Zionist rantings somewhere else?
KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK----TRUTH IN INFORMATION WILL EVENTUALLY WIN
Israel's propaganda, from its president Peres all the way down the line to the random internet guy like Letto never mention the fact that Israel was for years assassinating Palestinians in Gaza from the air. And every time, dozens of children (as they play outside instead of being cooped up indoors) and civilians were killed in the process. Israeli leaders called it "unfortunate" in the Israeli press at the time and chalked it up to collateral damage.
Sewage management systems where often bombed so as to destroy Palestinian farmland and spread disease. With the siege in place, Gaza gets no gasoline for cars, no electricity or oil for heating in the winter. Drinking water has been cut off and diverted to nearby Israeli colonies and food supplies are trickled in at a snail's pace.
Meanwhile, Israel controls the airspace and land crossings. Fishermen who dare go out to sea in search of food get shot at, their boats rammed, often sunk and some get killed. So, even fishing has become a dangerous occupation.
In 2006 one gut wrenching incident took place; as Gazan families were spending a clear sunny day at the beach, terror rained in on them from Israeli navy ships just off the coast. Within seconds, girls lost their mothers and fathers, fathers lost their sons and wives. Huda, a 10 year old girl was running from one body to the next, pleading with her parents to wake up. They never did.
The explanation Israel gave for the barbaric attack was to first say "sorry, we made a mistake". Then, after a few days, they changed the story and claimed that a bomb buried by "terrorists" at the beach must have exploded. And then Israel's spin masters went to work, covering up yet another atrocity as they always have and always will.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2006/jun/16/israel
Colonialism by whatever name does make racists of us all.*
*those of us who are colonizers, that is
Maximus Decimus: "A ceasefire was in place at the start of the Israeli onslaught on Gaza which Hamas had observed for months. It was Israel who broke this ceasefire with F16 bombing attacks on innocent civilians."
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_War
"On 18 December Hamas declared the end of a six-month ceasefire with Israel and on 24 December began an intensification of rocket fire towards Israel.[20] On 27 December Israel began a bombardment of the Gaza Strip with the stated aim of stopping the rocket attacks from and arms smuggling into the Gaza Strip, although other motives have also been forwarded[21][22]. Israeli forces attacked Hamas training camps, arms smuggling tunnels, rocket launching sites, weapons depots, police stations and command and control centers..."
Maximus Decimus: "Doubtless “Letto” will come back with the usual diatribe based upon that old chestnut “the Chosen People”. "
Wrong again, I've been posting in CD for 3 years now. I never used the "Chosen People" argument. I only argue that all people and all nations should be judged equally by the same set of rules. (Without extra bias only against one nation.)
Just because someone writes something up on Wikipedia doesn't make it true. Letto is surely a subscriber to Israel Projects 2009 Global diary (see http://www.newsweek.com/id/206021) Isn't it interesting how "Letto" fails to tell us what happened before December 18th; you know all those bombing runs by Israeli F16 on defenceless Gaza?
Letto provides us with what Vladimir Nabokov called "Doughnut truth" meaning the whole truth with a hole in the truth.
Letto's hole is that seemingly it is only the Israeli's who have a right to self defence. S/he doesn't answer the direct question posed about the Palestinian's right to self defence.
Nor does s/he address the fact that Israel is a state indisputably founded in terrorism. S/he doesn't address the fact that Zionist terrorists provided many "firsts" in the horrors they perpetrated or the lengths to which they would go. S/he doesn't address the fact that they were happy to murder the very people who put an end to the Holocaust.
How very selective of you Letto, but your Zionist propaganda doesn't wash with me.
The situation in Palestine is the root cause of much of the so-called terrorism in this world. The question that really needs answering is just who are the terrorists. Many of us believe that they are the ones with the F16 fighter bombers and nuclear weapons.
"On 18 December Hamas declared the end of a six-month ceasefire with Israel and on 24 December began an intensification of rocket fire towards Israel"
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I don't suppose any of the following had anything to do with what you describe:
1. Israel's refusal to lift the siege as per the previous summer's ceasefire agreement?
2. Israel's killing of 8 Palestinains on November 4, 2008?
3. The fact that Israel refused to extend the ceasefire when Hamas made the offer in December in exchange for ACTUALLY lifting the siege that time around?
Perhaps you should get in touch with a moderator on Wikipedia who is pro-Israeli propaganda. That way you could make up anything you want about issues pertaining to the conflict and cite obscure blogs as your "sources". I'm sure you'll find more than a few dozen 'sympathetic' moderators. They could even ban everyone that disagrees with your propaganda. That should make your job even easier.
It's always interesting how propagandists work. A linear chronology never suites them. They either ignore the past and pretend that the present exists in a vacuum or they cite the old testament as far back as 70 A.D. to legitimize Israelis' connection to the land.
Gaza And The Warsaw Ghetto
same place
different time
while the world stood by
genocide
live
"A gunshot was fired Sunday at the car of Israel's ambassador to Chile, according to a report by Chilean newspaper El Mercurio. The ambassador, David Dadon, was not in the car at the time of the incident, and there were no injuries".
http://www.ynetnews.com/Ext/Comp/ArticleLayout/CdaArticlePrintPreview/1,2506,L-3790230,00.html
Not looking good for israhell's zionist.