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In Urgent Letter, Amnesty International USA Appeals to Secretary Rice to End 'Lopsided US Response' to Gaza Crisis
Human Rights Organization Insists US Government 'Exert Concrete Pressure' on All Parties to End Unlawful Attacks, Protect Civilians
WASHINGTON - January 2 - Amnesty International submitted an urgent letter to U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice today, appealing to the U.S. government to vigorously pressure all parties to the current Gaza conflict to immediately cease indiscriminate or disproportionate attacks which cause civilian deaths and casualties, allow necessary humanitarian aid and workers into the region and suspend the transfer of U.S. weapons to Israel.
"Amnesty International USA is particularly dismayed at the lopsided response by the U.S. government to the recent violence and its lackadaisical efforts to ameliorate the humanitarian crisis in Gaza," the human rights organization states in its letter to Secretary Rice.
"Without diminishing the responsibility of Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups for indiscriminate and deliberate attacks on Israeli civilians, the U.S. government must not ignore Israel's disproportionate response and the longstanding policies which have brought the Gaza Strip to the brink of humanitarian disaster."
Amnesty International is also deeply concerned that weaponry and military equipment supplied to Israel by the United States have also been used in the recent Israeli strikes against densely populated civilian residential areas of Gaza. The United States must suspend the transfer of weapons to Israel immediately and conduct an investigation into whether U.S. weapons were used to commit human rights abuses.
In the letter, Amnesty International also calls on the United States to take an active role in reversing the dire humanitarian crisis in Gaza by exerting pressure on Israel to open the crossings into Gaza to human rights workers, journalists and adequate quantities of humanitarian aid. Addressing the humanitarian crisis will also require the United States to elicit cooperation from Egyptian and Hamas authorities in allowing Palestinians to leave Gaza to seek medical care.
The organization urged the United States to "go beyond rhetoric and exert concrete pressure on both parties to immediately cease unlawful attacks."
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Show AllBring America Back !!!! Amnesty sure writes a great appeal !!
**Unfortunately, Secretary Rice has deaf ears, and cannot read American !
Neither can Obama, King George, or the USA Mainstream Media.
**When Bush and Rice have done the identical thing to Iraq==invading and
massacring a defenseless Nations peoples--then there is nobody home to
appeal to !!! The US vote in the UN will always Veto any censure of Israel !
**Obama has already sanctioned the genocide of Israel's military against
Gaza, by comparing the Israelis to his daughters, and stating unequivocally
He would do the same as Israel !!!! No change, hope, or promise there is there,
especially for the 500 dead Palestinians and 2500 injured & maimed ????
**Secretary Rice & the whole Bush Cabal, as well as Barak Obama and Hillary
Clinton all worship at the lucrative campaign troughs of AIPAC, so they say
to hell with those duly elected Hamas terrorists. NOtice how they cleverly try to bring Iran into the equation as well!
**Just to remind Amnesty====AIPAC is the right wing Zionist extremist organization which has bought into the Control of all USA MIdeast foreign policy.
AIPAC does so with an iron fist.
**So Amnesty, why waste pen and ink on a senseless Condi Rice ???? What we have here is Gaza representing the Alamo as surrounded by the entire Mexican Army==the Israeli total defense mechanism. We know the US is not going to
arrive on time to help Davey, Wild Bill , Jim Bowie and the Texan Volunteers. so does Amnesty know of any other available Armies to call upon ????
**Egypt is sitting atop it's own Pyramids, remembering some well known
assassinations ! The Fat Cat Arabs are sipping non-alcoholic beers in their
tents trying to get the price per barrell up to unaffordable again ! Remember that all 19 so called 9/11 Hijackers held passports from the UAR !! And,
that their favorite son is the cave dwelling boogieman blamed as the mastermind of the technical genius that was that days' crimes. We now know bin Laden did
it all with a hand held Palm Pilot or a iPhone he stole at an Oasis ! He totally controlled NORAD and all the VP Cheney war games on that special day!
=======But never fear, our President-elect Obama has pledged to lead a Crusade
to Tora Bora to slay the boogieman. Obama thinks King George just did not
search the correct caves!! Hey Obie !! Dragons were just imaginary, too !
***So Amnesty====stop wasting your breath and REMEMBER THE ALAMO, PLEASEEEE!