(Part II)

As far as I know, at the beginning of the intifada, the attacks were limited to IDF soldiers but the massacre in a Hebron mosque
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/25/newsid_4167000/4167929.stm

was the incentive for Hamas to attack also civilians inside Israel.

Besides, it is clear, that Israel WANTS and NEEDS to provoke violent resistance so that it can portray its own cruelty and violence as "defense" in the context of the "war on terror" ...

It is highly ironic, that the world has been duped into believing that Islam represents a threat to global security while in fact Zionism is the real threat (abuse of religion) and is never even mentioned in this context (at least not here in Germany)

In his book “Overcoming Zionism” Joel Kovel (a Jewish psychiatrist) shows the insanity of Zionism as a political instrument and the staggering hypocrisy and self-deception this has entailed: the eternal “victims” with their (self-attributed) high Jewish morality, created a state on the brutal expropriation and misery of another people.

The victims became racist perpetrators but in order to maintain their collective identity and exculpatory self-image, they had to bend over backwards to put the blame somehow on the victims .... so they keep inventing “reasons” why their criminal and inhumane actions can be justified before their conscience and before their God:

Golda Meir: " I will never forgive the Arabs for forcing us to kill them ..."

( ...Jewish souls are very special, a part of God, so we have learned, they rank higher than human souls, and "Arab" souls, for this school of thought, apparently belong more to the cattle range ..))

Baruch Goldstein, who committed the massacre in Hebron, refused to treat non-Jews, even in the IDF ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baruch_Goldstein
http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/2902/jewish/What-Is-the-Cause-of-Antisemitism.htm

To return to the UN-GA resolution: I am deeply ashamed that with the exception of IRELAND, NO EU member state has voted FOR the resolution.

The majority of the hypocrites abstained, the US-puppets in Eastern Europe voted against (divide and conquer works...), but the biggest assholes are GERMANY, ITALY AND THE NETHERLANDS.

Germany sells heavily subsidized submarines to Israel and the EU awards Israel a “privileged” trade status ...

My God, will they exploit the Holocaust forever ...?

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=15515

Nahida, I am on your side, but have you actually READ the Goldstone report?

Given the extremely difficult circumstances, I think Judge Goldstone did a good job. Those who accuse him of "bias" should present facts that support their allegations or keep quiet.

His findings simply confirm a long line of previous reports from Human Rights Organisations (including B't Selem) and the revelations by groups like "Breaking the Silence" although there is one unacceptable premise:

I absolutely agree with Norman Finkelstein, that to refer to the massacre in Gaza as a "war" is totally unacceptable and deliberately misleading, given the huge disparity of force between Hamas militants and the IDF.

Therefore, even though the "firing of (relatively ridiculous) rockets" into civilian neighbourhoods may be a violation of humanitarian law in principle, the moral dimensions of Israel's systemic violence (occupation and military assaults under some pretext) and the occasional outbursts of "revenge" through these rockets are totally different.

The hypocrisy here is in the legal groundwork: people under occupation are entitled to "resist", to fight againt the occupier but they ought to restrict their attacks to the military. But in light of the seemingly endless horrors of the occupation, the brutal retaliations against peaceful demonstrations and rather harmless "resistance" like stone-throwing children, let alone the ongoing and intensifying violation of human rights (including land expropriation and evictions, and of course the siege on Gaza) this restraint is practically impossible and would require super-human self-control.

(End of Part I)

Biased propaganda crap. Not a single mention of arab rockets.

Here's who Israel and the U.S. lined up against world opinion:
Australia, Canada, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Marshall Islands, Micronesia (Federated States of), Nauru, Netherlands, Palau, Panama, Poland, Slovakia, The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Ukraine.
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Federated States of Micronesia ? What did they bribe *them* with, Yankees tickets ?
Nauru ?
Palau ?
Panama ?
And much of "new", Eastern Europe, eager to get in on the economic scam before China rewrites the global rules.

Yeah, good luck in 2030, Israel. It will be the first time in world history an entire country moves to New York City.

Do you know whay the mission was prevented from visiting Sderot??

find out why, here:

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WATCH:

Hamas's "crimes against humanity" and israel's innocence:

http://palestinian.ning.com/forum/topics/the-other-side-of-the-story

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"Despite the mission’s charges over Israeli war crimes, South African jurist Richard Goldstone actually bent over backwards to protect Israel as much as possible"

Jeff Halper

http://www.icahd.org/eng/articles.asp?menu=6&submenu=2&article=552

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My mission - and motivation

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1255694838474&pagename=JPArticle/ShowFull

By RICHARD GOLDSTONE

“as a Jew who has supported Israel and its people all my life…………..……I sincerely believed that because of my own record and the terms of the mission's mandate we would receive the cooperation of the Israeli government. Its refusal to cooperate was a grave error.

“Israel missed a golden opportunity to actually have a fair hearing from a UN-sponsored inquiry. Of course, I was aware of and have frequently spoken out against the unfair and exceptional treatment of Israel by the UN and especially by the Human Rights Council. I did so again last week. Israel could have seized the opportunity provided by the even-handed mandate of our mission and used it as a precedent for a new direction by the United Nations in the Middle East. Instead, we were shut out

As I stated in response to a recent letter from the mayor of Sderot, I believed strongly that our mission should have been allowed to visit Sderot and other parts of southern Israel…………………We were prevented from doing so by, what I believe, was a misguided decision by the Israeli government."
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GOLDSTONE is a ZIONIST; hardly an objective report that comes from a ZIONIST and LOVER OF ISRAEL

This report was cleansed by Goldstone to PROTECT Israel and to include an occupied people, Palestinians, as being guilty of “war” crimes and “crimes against humanity” when Goldstone, as a judge, knows that an occupied people have EVERY right to resist the occupiers

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'My father is a Zionist, loves Israel'

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1251804583376&pagename=JPArticle%2FShowFull

Quote: “Nicole Goldstone, the daughter of Richard Goldstone, whose report on Operation Cast Lead alleged that Israel committed war crimes in Gaza, maintained on Wednesday that her father "is a Zionist and loves Israel."

Speaking from Toronto, where she now lives, Nicole told Army Radio she had many conversations with her father after he was asked to head the UN inquiry…

She said she planned to host her parents in Toronto for Rosh Hashana, and that while speaking with her father following the report's release, he had quipped, "Are you sure we can still come?"

Nicole insisted that the fact the report also accused the Palestinians of crimes against humanity showed that her father tried to be balanced.
"I am not angry with him. I love him and respect him," she said.

"He is a Zionist," she added. "My dad loves Israel and it wasn't easy for him to see and hear what happened. I think he heard and saw things he didn't expect to see and hear, and I am 100 percent sure he [conducted the investigation] in the hope that the Israelis would come to cooperate, and he wanted to help find a long-term solution for the state of Israel."

Nicole, who lived in Israel for six months, said that the country "is the most important thing in my life, my heart is there.... I love Israel more than my family and friends and anything else."

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Many countries who are poor and weak, give in to US pressure, and are more likely to vote the way US wants them to.

There's nothing new about my comment. It is a universal truth.
Syed Rizvi, San Jose, CA

"Most developing countries voted in favour of endorsing the report."

One has to wonder, in the instance of the Goldstone report, exactly which countries are 'developing' and which are truly 'developed'.