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Israel on Trial
SAN FRANCISCO - Chilling testimony by Israeli soldiers substantiates charges that Israel's Gaza Strip assault entailed grave violations of international law. The emergence of a predominantly right-wing, nationalist government in Israel suggests that there may be more violations to come. Hamas's indiscriminate rocket attacks on Israeli civilians also constituted war crimes, but do not excuse Israel's transgressions. While Israel disputes some of the soldiers' accounts, the evidence suggests that Israel committed the following six offenses:
- Violating its duty to protect the civilian population of the Gaza Strip. Despite Israel's 2005 "disengagement" from Gaza, the territory remains occupied. Israel unleashed military firepower against a people it is legally bound to protect.
- Imposing collective punishment in the form of a blockade, in violation of Article 33 of the Fourth Geneva Convention. In June 2007, after Hamas took power in the Gaza Strip, Israel imposed suffocating restrictions on trade and movement. The blockade -- an act of war in customary international law -- has helped plunge families into poverty, children into malnutrition, and patients denied access to medical treatment into their graves. People in Gaza thus faced Israel's winter onslaught in particularly weakened conditions.
- Deliberately attacking civilian targets. The laws of war permit attacking a civilian object only when it is making an effective contribution to military action and a definite military advantage is gained by its destruction. Yet an Israeli general, Dan Harel, said, "We are hitting not only terrorists and launchers, but also the whole Hamas government and all its wings." An Israeli military spokeswoman, Maj. Avital Leibovich, avowed that "anything affiliated with Hamas is a legitimate target."
Israeli fire destroyed or damaged mosques, hospitals, factories, schools, a key sewage plant, institutions like the parliament, the main ministries, the central prison and police stations, and thousands of houses. - Willfully killing civilians without military justification. When civilian institutions are struck, civilians -- persons who are not members of the armed forces of a warring party, and are not taking direct part in hostilities -- are killed.
International law authorizes killings of civilians if the objective of the attack is military, and the means are proportional to the advantage gained. Yet proportionality is irrelevant if the targets of attack were not military to begin with. Gaza government employees -- traffic policemen, court clerks, secretaries and others -- are not combatants merely because Israel considers Hamas, the governing party, a terrorist organization. Many countries do not regard violence against foreign military occupation as terrorism.
Of 1,434 Palestinians killed in the Gaza invasion, 960 were civilians, including 121 women and 288 children, according to a United Nations special rapporteur, Richard Falk. Israeli military lawyers instructed army commanders that Palestinians who remained in a targeted building after having been warned to leave were "voluntary human shields," and thus combatants. Israeli gunners "knocked on roofs" -- that is, fired first at corners of buildings, before hitting more vulnerable points -- to "warn" Palestinian residents to flee.
With nearly all exits from the densely populated Gaza Strip blocked by Israel, and chaos reigning within it, this was a particularly cruel flaunting of international law. Willful killings of civilians that are not required by military necessity are grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions, and are considered war crimes under the Nuremberg principles. - Deliberately employing disproportionate force. Last year, Gen. Gadi Eisenkot, head of Israel's northern command, speaking on possible future conflicts with neighbors, stated, "We will wield disproportionate power against every village from which shots are fired on Israel, and cause immense damage and destruction." Such a frank admission of illegal intent can constitute evidence in a criminal prosecution.
- Illegal use of weapons, including white phosphorus. Israel was finally forced to admit, after initial denials, that it employed white phosphorous in the Gaza Strip, though Israel defended its use as legal. White phosphorous may be legally used as an obscurant, not as a weapon, as it burns deeply and is extremely difficult to extinguish.
Israeli political and military personnel who planned, ordered or executed these possible offenses should face criminal prosecution. The appointment of Richard Goldstone, the former war crimes prosecutor from South Africa, to head a fact-finding team into possible war crimes by both parties to the Gaza conflict is an important step in the right direction. The stature of international law is diminished when a nation violates it with impunity.
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He who lives by the sword dies by the sword. It's a karmic law to which no nation owns a free pass.
Although America is more than equally guilty, this emphasis on war and aggression as a so-called methodology for containing terrorism or neutralizing enemies is bogus to start with. No peace has ever been gotten from war. For all the astronomical wastes of blood and treasure, sounder trade dealings, more deft uses of diplomacy and those proverbial carrots and sticks would lead to a far more lasting peace than the stains and scars of enmity produced by the savagery of generation after generation being trained to cultivate hatreds among tribes.
Any religion true to its Creator would teach the fundamental oneness of mankind potentially using the analogy of ONE tree with many branches. Can a tree grow tall with only one branch? Would there be a gorgeous world without a variety of colors? Could we be lifted by ecstatic music if it didn't consist of many notes? This is why I teach the Circle as a fundament for broadening human understanding. As the rigid leaders of our times call increasingly for conformity, for warfare as the false path to peace, for "free" trade as a covert device for seizing other nations' resources, it is imperative that a new understanding of the faceted nature of our human personalities and motivations come into play. This knowledge would prove helpful in that so many fail to notice the same personae as they historically recycle. They may be called pharaoh or king, dictator or tyrant, yet they are cast from the same place in time, and must be recognized to be countered. The power of "the people" united is greater than these power-hungry foes; but so long as "the people" allow themselves to be diverted into groups fighting among themselves, a genuine global liberation from the control of elites cannot take place.
Nationality divisions, class distinctions, ethnic determinations and religious ones have been fomented to turn people against people when in reality, they generally share the same goals and have the same love for their children/grandchildren that would make for actions motivated towards sustaining the earth's ecosystems for ALL to enjoy and thrive upon.
An ethos that envelopes our shared aspirations is overdue. Since time circles, elements of ancient understanding could provide the "medicine" needed to guide our vision(s) today.
Ethnic cleansing
A fundamental component of a peaceful resolution of conflict is that of balance.
We need to recognize there will also be "conflicts" between groups of people and these conflicts can often lead to war.
When trying to resolve such conflict it imperative that the side of strength recognize the concerns of the side of weakness and tries to ensure that any resolution will ensure the weaker sides SUCCESS and not its failure.
This lies at the heart of the Palestinian/Israeli conflict. Israel wants the Palestinians to fail and advances policies to ensure that , thus there can never be a peace.
We can use WW11 as an example here.
The war started due primarly to the vindictive nature of the triple entente at World War Ones end, where they lay the entire blame for the war on the Germans and imposed conditions on them that were onerous. These conditions by the words of the victorious powers were so to ensure Germany failed.
In so doing they guaranteed another war.
If one looks through history at the example of what were seemingly endless wars , very much the same pattern emerges. One side is victorious for a short period, imposes harsh conditions upon the other which are by design to keep the latter subjugated, which leads in turn to another war.
When the "Victors" come to any table to bargain with the "defeated" the only thing in their heads if they truly want peace is to say "How can i ensure the other side prospers and succeeds' rather then "how can I ensure they remain weak and subject to my power" .
That Israel will not do this , is the clearest sign they have no interest in peace. They want to perpetuate the conflict so that they can "rationalize" the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian lands to the rest of the world and in turn call them their own.
This should be as clear as day to any world leader and any world leader that does not condemn Israel for its actions, is complicit.
And make no mistake. There is NO WAY imaginable the Zionist state of Israel could get away with their atrocities, if not for the support of the United States.
The most deceptive, most irresponsible, most complicit world leader to be named is none other than Barack Hussein Obama.
As the Bushites showed us, fear and greed make people react and elect conservatives, regressives who think in simplistic terms of win or lose.
International Law seems a little too dainty when dealing with these types. Here's the hair-raising response of a a Zionist settler to an interview question:
Leibowitz is right. We are Judeo-Nazis, and why not? ... Even today I am willing to do the dirty work for Israel, to kill as many Arabs as necessary, to deport them, to expel and burn them, to have everyone hate us, to pull the rug from underneath the feet of diaspora Jews, so that they will be forced to run to us crying. Even if it means blowing up one or two synagogues here and there, I don't care. And I don't mind if after the job is done you put me in front of a Nurnberg trial and jail me for life. Hang me if you want as a war criminal ... What you lot don't understand is that the dirty work of Zionism is not finished yet, far from it. True, it could have been finished in 1948 ...
From Uri Davis's 'Apartheid Israel':
http://books.google.com/books?isbn=1842773399
Leibowitz's Terror Talk is all right of that book of Fabricated Jewish History called The Bible.
Hate is hate, no matter the side.
What the heck does "hate is hate" mean?
Here's the deal: 1)A bunch of European parasites have taken over an innocent indigenous people's land and have confined the locals in concentration camps, and periodically rain rockets on the captive population. 2)The inmates of the concentration camp are fighting for their land and their livelihood.
I fail to see how any action taken by the inmates of the concentration camps to protect themselves and to resist the occupation can be characterized as "hate" or "terror"...you've got to be kidding me! If you move into my apartment and force me to live with my family in the bathroom, trust me, I will dedicate my life to trying to get you out.
Amir
www.meetyourworld.com
In Derrick Jensen's "Ebdgame" he explains that the people in power (like the u.s., like Israel) have made up the rules, and that these rules are that the power on top have the right to kill people lower in the hierarchy for resources or whatever. but if those lower in the hierarchy try to fight back, they are denounced as criminals or terrorists.
"Here's the deal: 1)A bunch of European parasites have taken over an innocent indigenous people's land and have confined the locals in concentration camps, and periodically rain rockets on the captive population. 2)The inmates of the concentration camp are fighting for their land and their livelihood."
Sounds like America, Re: Native Americans. Except you can't say none of the Jews are indigenous to that region, at least the ones that fled there from other Arab countries.
actually perspective is important...
as bob marley wrote the song 'war' (paraphrasing h selassie's address to the UN) describing the effects of european colonialism (A policy by which a nation maintains or extends its control over foreign dependencies - online free dictionary) in africa. the struggle continues...especially in palestine.
{Until the philosophy which hold one race
Superior and another inferior
Is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned
Everywhere is war, me say war
That until there are no longer first class
And second class citizens of any nation
Until the colour of a man's skin
Is of no more significance than the colour of his eyes
Me say war
That until the basic human rights are equally
Guaranteed to all, without regard to race
Dis a war
That until that day
The dream of lasting peace, world citizenship
Rule of international morality
Will remain in but a fleeting illusion
To be persued, but never attained
Now everywhere is war, war
And until the ignoble and unhappy regimes
that hold our brothers in Angola, in Mozambique,
South Africa sub-human bondage
Have been toppled, utterly destroyed
Well, everywhere is war, me say war
War in the east, war in the west
War up north, war down south
War, war, rumours of war
And until that day, the African continent
Will not know peace, we Africans will fight
We find it necessary and we know we shall win
As we are confident in the victory
Of good over evil, good over evil, good over evil
Good over evil, good over evil, good over evil} - b marley...
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{'The great nations of the world would do well to remember that in the modern age even their own fates are not wholly in their hands. Peace demands the united efforts of us all. Who can foresee what spark might ignite the fuse? It is not only the small and the weak who must scrupulously observe their obligations to the United Nations and to each other. Unless the smaller nations are accorded their proper voice in the settlement of the world's problems, unless the equality which Africa and Asia have struggled to attain is reflected in expanded membership in the institutions which make up the United Nations, confidence will come just that much harder. Unless the rights of the least of men are as assiduously protected as those of the greatest, the seeds of confidence will fall on barren soil.'} - h selassie
the full text can be found here... http://www.rastafarispeaks.com/HIM_UN.html ...
...peace...
So is stupidity, which you excell at.
Sioux Rose, if the slaughter of billions of innocent animals continues, then so will human karma, or as it is correctly called, vikarma.
For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love."
Pythagoras
"Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances of survival for life on earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet."
Albert Einstein
"You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"As long as there are slaughterhouses, there will be battlefields."
Leo Tolstoy
"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated."
"To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being."
Mahatma Gandhi
Sioux Rose
KALIDAS: Thank you for the response. My beliefs fall somewhere between the Eastern view of karma (regarding animals) and those of the American Indigenous cultures. There are times when it is NECESSARY to take another life, but if it is done with grace and thanksgiving, it does not count against the soul to the degree wonton destruction does.
In America there is NO respect for living things... even in these times of evident climate change I see IDIOTS constantly cutting down trees. So much of labor is make-work projects that directly cause harm. Sometimes I think instead of the sign, "Men Working," it might just as well read, "Men Killing."
In my view, intent is a significant factor, and karma is "judged" by degrees.
"Chilling testimony by Israeli soldiers substantiates charges that Israel's Gaza Strip assault entailed grave violations of international law."
no shit
"The emergence of a predominantly right-wing, nationalist government in Israel suggests that there may be more violations to come.
no shit
"Hamas's indiscriminate rocket attacks on Israeli civilians also constituted war crimes, but do not excuse Israel's transgressions."
yeh right - these "rockets" are tomato cans with firecrackers in them - how many people have they killed in the last few years - 4
how many israeli soldiers lost their lives in the last genocide of gaza - 13 - 11 of whom were killed by friendly fire
i guess the idf had to kill a few of their own to create the illusion of a fair fight
so this evil axis called hamas were able - while under three weeks of murderous carnage in their own home town - this evil crew were able to kill 3 israelis while they lost over 1300 citizens over half of whom were children
this writer doesn't seem to know jackshit about the history of israel
thank you corporate media - we don't get enough unfair, ill considered and apologetic news from israel
the nazi party lives and thrives in israel
man is there anything the rothschild debt machine can't do
"this writer doesn't seem to know jackshit about the history of israel"
As he is a Paelstinian-American and his parents were Palestinian refugees, born in Jerusalem, I suspect he knows perhaps as much as you do. At least. And as a law professor he's making a case to answer not just hurling expletives.
Rainborowe
thanks for the feedback
this is timid truth telling but if that works for you
you get better in haaretz.com - if you want to check that out
as for the fact that he's a lawyer....
Another God that failed: Israel.
Along with Communism and Capitalism, a really toxic threesome.
So there we have it: 6 million Israelis --the 4th best military in the world! (Jane's)-- up against a billion Muslims.
It's possible to leave in peace but knowing the Israelis as well as the Muslims, as well as the Christians, this will probably not happen. I'd be happy to be proven wrong.
Sorry to be such a schoolmarm about this, but Bisharat writes: "With nearly all exits from the densely populated Gaza Strip blocked by Israel, and chaos reigning within it, this was a particularly cruel flaunting of international law." "Flaunting" here is an egregious malapropism worthy of Sancho Panza. I am surprised (but am I really?) that neither the NYT's editors, nor CD's (if they check this sort of thing) caught this mistake. What he means to say, of course, is that it was a particularly cruel FLOUTING of international law.
The US and Israel, two huge terrorist peas in a terrorist pod!
Gaza And The Warsaw Ghetto
same place
different time
while the world stood by
genocide
live
yourstruly : "Gaza And The Warsaw Ghetto same place different time"
I will assume, yourstruly, that you compared these two tragic, yet incomparable, events because of lack of knowledge and not because of Holocaust denial or other sinister agendas.
Facts vs. myth.
Gaza population 2009: 1.5 million
Warsaw Ghetto 1940: 440,000
The Jews in Warsaw, didn't want to exterminate Germany and install a Jewish state on Germany's ruins.
The hamas wants to obliterate Israel and establish a Taliban style Islamic republic on its ruins.
The Jews in Warsaw Ghetto didn't fired rockets and mortar bomb on German civilian targets.
The hamas fired ~10,000 rockets and mortar bomb on Israeli civilian targets (+ sent dozens of suicide bombers)
The Jewish population in Warsaw Ghetto was exterminated. (99% died)
The Palestinian in Gaza were not exterminated. (99.9% survived the recent conflict)
This was good. The New York Times finally publishes something that is not pro Israel propaganda.
My dogs are w/ me.
The Palestinians had Pets, Dogs.
The Killers called shooting Pets, "Hush Puppies" kicks for them, but my dogs are my best friends. Hush Puppy, IDF Humor.
Araboushkin, means N*****, the common aspersion.
First overt racism. Then physical separation. Then the Cleansing.
Warsaw Gaza, Dachau-1434 Dead 5000 maimed. Row upon Row, The Poppies
Grow. R.I.P.
US Blues
Some question on George Bisharat's 6 points.
* "Despite Israel's 2005 "disengagement" from Gaza, the territory remains occupied."
Q: Why? How did you come to that conclusion?
* "Imposing collective punishment in the form of a blockade, in violation of Article 33 of the Fourth Geneva Convention. In June 2007, after Hamas took power in the Gaza Strip, Israel imposed suffocating restrictions on trade and movement. The blockade ."
Q: When Israel withdraw from Gaza in 2005, there was an agreement between Israel, the Palestinian Authority, Egypt and the European union that allowed border crossing. When the hamas captured Gaza by force, they killed / dispersed all the Palestinian Authority border control personal, expelled the European Union monitors, and declared that all the past agreements with Israel are void. (Including the border crossing agreement) - These are the facts.
Can you, Mr. George Bisharat, explain how these facts cope with your claim that Israel (which have no control over the Gaza / Egypt border) is the only party responsible for the blockade?
* "Deliberately attacking civilian targets." ..."The laws of war permit attacking a civilian object only when it is making an effective contribution to military action " ... "Israeli fire destroyed or damaged mosques, hospitals, factories, schools,"
Q: Some facts:
Firing rockets from a UN school
http://il.youtube.com/watch?v=Ht2B9KaDAEw&NR=1
Hamas Launching a rocket from a mosque.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=165_JS4t0SE
It is yet to be proven that the civilian Palestinian targets were not used to carry out attacks against Israel. On the other hand, there is no dispute that the Hamas intentionally targeted civilians within Israel.
* "Willfully killing civilians without military justification."
Not true, No Palestinian civilians were willfully and intentionally killed. The Hamas was hiding among civilians. If the hamas is using civilians as human shield - international law doesn't give them immunity.
Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War
http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/92.htm
Article 28
The presence of a protected person may not be used to render certain points or areas immune from military operations.
* "Deliberately employing disproportionate force."
How would you know?
The IDF should have used the minimum force needed to convince the Hamas to stop firing rockets at Israel. Determining if the IDF use disproportionate amount of force should be conducted by an unbiased military expert. Are you, George Bisharat, such a person?
* Illegal use of weapons, including white phosphorus.
Q: Well... Maybe you have something here. Perhaps the smoke bomb contained phosphorus. I'm not sure. I heard conflicting reports.
facts facts facts.
Your lies won't save Israel.
The murder of children and women is Israeli policy testified by soldiers in the IDF.
We aren't making these accusations; Jews are.
There will be another Diaspora. Six million vs. one billion are not viable odds.
The muslims will not be as forgiving as the Romans. They will have moving pictures of muslim children shredded by Israeli weapons to steel there resolve and harden their hearts.
I used to believe there was hope for peace in Israel/Palestine until the IDF ran over an unarmed girl with bulldozer and Israel shrugged. Some cheered. This poison has got to stop. We can't burn it so we must dilute it. This endless war to feed the insanity of a tiny religious minority can not be resolved by a trust that is not earned. When the shattered remnants of Israel stand in the waters of the sea and look west they will still not know their full debt.
The Jews will circle the world in their ships for a second time and this time everyone will know the folly of taking them in. Look what happened when they were let into Palestine. Look what happened to the government of the US; held hostage by Israeli moles. Hopefully there is a waste land, shunned by all others that Israeli Jews will be able to find solace. Then there will be the matter of trust to be regained.
This is not a hope but a prediction. So many on this side, so many on that side; the laws of physics are known to all. Be careful who you step on going up; you'll meet them coming back down again; they might have a bit of a grudge.
Which of my points is a lie?
Are you saying that the Hamas didn't use civilian faciliies to store explosives and to carry out attacks against Israelies?
You have never written one word on this site that is the truth, hateful zionist troll.
If that it true, and none of my words are truth, surely it should be easy to show the readers evidence that one or many of my points are false, instead of calling me names.
Having said that, I don't resent you for swearing. I'll give you a challenge. Please bring proof that shows that even one of my points is a lie.
Two days have passed, and I still haven't seen any "proof" from you, patgarrett, that I lied.
Surely, it can't be that difficult if all I'm saying is a lie.
Nice try to deflect attention away from IDF atrocities, but no cigar.
Only a small minority of Hamas attacks are initiated from schools and mosques. This does not excuse IDF for targeting other civilian property in Gaza.
IDF artillery attacks are made by portable units operating from civilian property. This fact, by your judgment, "excuses" Hamas retaliation against Israeli civilian property. Anyway, Qassam missiles are highly inaccurate and are considered lucky if they even make it into Israel.
As for Hamas "hiding" among civilians, Gaza is an overcrowded jail with more than 1.3m people. This is an urban conflict and it is impossible for Hamas to conduct any operation without rubbing shoulders with their neighbors.
As for disproportionate response, a total of 24 Israelis have been killed by Qassams in the past 9 years. That the IDF has slaughtered many thousands of Gazans in the same time frame constitutes a disproportionate response.
There are no conflicting reports on the use of WP, as the IDF has admitted using the stuff.
Facts, facts, facts.
Never criticize a man until you've walked a mile in his moccasins - Native American proverb.
Israel's goal in the recent Gaza conflict was to convince the Hamas to stop firing rockets into Israel.
If the IDF had fired Qassam rockets and indiscriminately killing 24 Palestinian civilians - this would not be sufficient to stop the Hamas' attacks. (These are perfectly acceptable losses by the Hamas)
I argue that Israel should have used the minimum force needed convince the Hamas to stop the rocket attacks.
What is a proportionate response to a mosquito bite? Bite it back?
"I argue that Israel should have used the minimum sufficient force needed to stop the rocket attacks."
The rest of the world outside of Israel calls for negotiation and a return to pre-1967 borders. Our solution is more moral and humane.
"What is a proportionate response to a mosquito bite? Bite it back?"
The mosquito is just feeding, surviving, with almost zero impact on the host. Your point is?
Never criticize a man until you've walked a mile in his moccasins - Native American proverb.
The problem with a two state solution is not that Israel appose it. Most Israelies have no problem with a peacefull Palestinian state alongside Israel.
The problem occurred in the other side.
http://www.palestinefacts.org/pf_mandate_peel.php
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1947_UN_Partition_Plan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_Camp_David_Summit
Today, the Hamas calls to obliterate Israel, all of Israel, and create an Islamic republic on its ruins.
As for the mosquito analogy - when mosquito bite you, what will you do?
A) Bite it back? (Use proportionate force)
B) Do nothing and always allow mosquitoes to bite you.
C) Use disproportionate force to stop it from biting you.
If you answer that question honestly, and the analogy is still unclear, I'll be happy to help.
It's interesting that the Zionist troll compares Palestinian attacks to mosquito bites. We all know how we deal with mosquito's don't we?
We drive around in trucks spraying poison gases. Then we eliminate their breeding areas.
That's exactly the plan for Gaza. The IDF uses white phosphorus that turns into a poison gas when burn as does depleted uranium and both are used to attack Gaza. Then they drop 1,000 lb. bombs on creches and schools and shoot children carrying food or water containers.
I wasn’t referring to Palestinian attacks. Most of the Palestinians in Gaza are innocent civilians, who don’t attack anyone. I was comparing the Hamas rocket attacks (And I hope you don’t think all Palestinians are Hamas militants) to mosquito bites.
The analogy was not that the Hamas are mosquito. They are humans. The analogy is that an equal / proportionate response would not stop the rockets.
Any comment though about the subject at hand? (That the Palestinians rejected the two state solution every time there was a proposal on the table)
Excuse me, you lying thug: Israel's current PM said that the goal was the kill as many Palestinians as possible.
Shove THAT up yours.
First of all, patgarrett, I don't support the current Israeli PM.
Now that we established that, can you post a link showing that current (or privious) PM calimed that the goal was to kill as many Palestinians as possible?
Israel's goal is to slaughter as many Palestinians as possible. That is the same goal that has been used since the foundation of the Zionist movement. Israel was founded in terrorism and genocide and has practiced it ever since.
There will never be a cessation of attacks on Israel until any arab can purchase a property next door to a Jewish temple in Israel and expect to live there in peace. In 1934 that was possible; in 2009 it would be deemed madness on the part of the arab. Everybody would know he would be executed.
The thing called Israel is a monster that feeds on the blood of children. There is no denying it. It is a pollution that stains every Jew anywhere in the world. It's a denial of the very words of the Torah that call for peace and justice between neighbors of all religions.
I am seeing these words come true, poor SICK Israel,
MOSES Said-"the Lord your God shall raise up to you a prophet from among your brethren, as he raised up me; to him shall hearken in all things that he shall speak to you.
And it shall be that every soul that will not hearken to that prophet, shall be destroyed from among the people."
Israel's psychopathic cruelty, barbarism, JOY in killing, is a result of Sickness, a rejection of the Messiah, then the 2nd commandment, and always the 1st commandment. This is why Jews have been scattered to the winds for 2000 years and now are now self-immolating, Killing and Starving & Torturing God's Children and saying God DESIRES this-
That Sin Covets Hell's Darkest Corners.
US Blues
Israel with the blessing of the U.S. people. Many Americans see the extermination of the people of Palestine, especially, those in Gaza as appropriate. The only hope for peace in the Middle East is if the Arab and Muslim nations are able to wipe the Jewish population in the land stolen and occupied off the face of the earth. None deserve to exist.
thong-girl
How about those cute teeshirts issued to the IDF--which show a pregnant woman in an abaya and hijab with crosshairs across her belly and the slogan:
One shot, two kills!
Sweet stuff, right?
Paid for by WHOSE tax dollars, chumps?
Did you do compare it to other units teeshirts within the IDF?
Did you compare it to Hamas' teeshirts?
Did you compare it to teeshirts in various US army units?
Did you compare it to teeshirts in army units around the globe?
You're saying: The IDF are all evil, because soldiers in one unit had teeshirts with racist connotation.
Racism is evil. Period.
That one unit wore the t-shirts reflects on the whole service. That is why most military services have RULES regarding wearing non-issue uniforms while on duty.
Ergo sum, the IDF is all evil.
Never criticize a man until you've walked a mile in his moccasins - Native American proverb.
Of course it is ALL evil!
What else could it be?
The T-shirt with the racist comment was not issued by the IDF, it is not part of the uniform, and it is not allowed for solders to wear it during active duty.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_Defense_Forces_insignia
http://images.google.ca/images?hl=en&q=IDF%20dress%20uniform&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi
What utter bullshit. Any US soldier caught OWNING a t-shirt that advocated shooting a pregnant woman would spend at least a year in the stockade. The fact that Israeli soldiers can get these made at all shows how deep the sickness in Israel is. Shooting pregnant women is right up there with cannibalism, child rape and snuff erotica.
The IDF=Schutzstaffel (SS), assasination is a routine weapon, they manage concentration camps, they kill children and women intentionally, they are founded upon a racist ideology, they use poison gases and routinely threaten the use of nuclear weapons.
Like some sad kiddy-raper repeatedly passing on his victimization once grown up the IDF reflects it's source in the camps of Germany. How do you manage to defend this garbage day after day?
That is incorrect. Read my article above:
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1072466.html
The t-shirt designs are generally approved by the battalion commander, or at the very least, the platoon sergeant. That ranking officers have the power to make these decisions means it is official battle dress.
There is NOTHING that you falsely claim that vindicates what the IDF has done. These are insane criminals molded in the same cast as the Waffen SS and the Revolutionary United Front.
Never criticize a man until you've walked a mile in his moccasins - Native American proverb.
Get your head out of your ass, zionist troll.
The tee shirts are issued to ALL new IDF elements.
And they are more than racist--they are murderous!
Just like your sorry ass.