Israel faces deluge of criticism over Gaza at UN - Telegraph »
Posted By tehranchik 10 months, 3 weeks ago in Political NewsSpeakers from countries as politically disparate as Iran, Brazil, Spain and Iceland condemned what they saw as Israel's disproportionate use of force and called on the council to adopt a resolution demanding an immediate end to the violence.
It is the first time that Israel's actions have been scrutinised in a Security Council debate since the war in Lebanon in 2006.
An Israeli delegation led by Gabriela Shalev, Israel's UN ambassador, had to sit and listen uncomfortably to a stream of vitriol from its traditional enemies.
Julio Escalona, Venezuela's UN ambassador, told the Israelis: "The Nuremberg tribunal will be waiting for you in the future in order to judge you as war criminals."
The Iraqi UN ambassador, Eshagh Al Habib, said the credibility of the international community and the UN was at stake and "has been once again challenged by the Israeli regime's war crimes and crimes against humanity".
Even David Miliband, the British foreign secretary – who along with his US counterpart, Condoleezza Rice, has extended his visit to the UN – said that Israel's response had been disproportionate and jeopardised a political solution to the Middle East conflict.
British, American and French foreign ministers and diplomats spent today in talks with their Arab counterparts as they tried to avoid a UN resolution that would almost certainly be vetoed by a pro-Israeli US.
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Hobe10 months, 3 weeks ago
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Speakers from countries as politically disparate as Iran, Brazil, Spain and Iceland condemned what they saw as Israel's
Let the so called Leaders of these contries have Missils fired on a daly basis at their Wife and Cheldern and then see what they have to say.... -
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BB6410 months, 3 weeks ago
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Spain? Brazil? Iran? Have you seen what they do to protesters? Iran has nothing to say. They're the ones supplying the Katusha rockets for Hammas.
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By the way, the Palestinians were running the place themselves, electing Hammas to run things. It's their constant missiles and smuggling tunnels that brought the wrath down upon them. No missiles, no invasion. One other question, if a nation launches missiles into it's neighbor's borders, isn't that an act of war?-
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hyperbola10 months, 3 weeks ago
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What exactly BB64? Spain was a model of democracy in catching and trying the bombers in Madrid. The whole trial could be watched on TV.
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And, you do know that it was Israel that initiiated the war in Gaza don't you?
War of Choice: How Israel Manufactured the Gaza Escalation
Israel has repeatedly claimed that it had "no choice" but to wage war on Gaza on December 27 because Hamas had broken a ceasefire, was firing rockets at Israeli civilians, and had "tried everything in order to avoid this military operation," as Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni put it.
This claim, however, is widely at odds with the fact that Israel's military and political leadership took many aggressive steps during the ceasefire that escalated a crisis with Hamas, and possibly even provoked Hamas to create a pretext for the assault. This wasn't a war of "no choice," but rather a very avoidable war in which Israeli actions played the major role in instigating.
Israel has a long history of deliberately using violence and other provocative measures to trigger reactions in order to create a pretext for military action, and to portray its opponents as the aggressors and Israel as the victim. According to the respected Israeli military historian Zeev Maoz in his recent book, Defending the Holy Land, Israel most notably used this policy of "strategic escalation" in 1955-1956, when it launched deadly raids on Egyptian army positions to provoke Egypt's President Nasser into violent reprisals preceding its ill-fated invasion of Egypt; in 1981-1982, when it launched violent raids on Lebanon in order to provoke Palestinian escalation preceding the Israeli invasion of Lebanon; and between 2001-2004, when Prime Minister Ariel Sharon repeatedly ordered assassinations of high-level Palestinian militants during declared ceasefires, provoking violent attacks that enabled Israel's virtual reoccupation of the West Bank.
Israel's current assault on Gaza bears many trademark elements of Israel's long history of employing "strategic escalation" to manufacture a major crisis, if not a war....
....The countdown to a war began, according to a detailed report by Barak Raviv in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, when Israel's Defense Minister Ehud Barak started planning the current attack on Gaza with his chiefs of staff at least six months ago - even as Israel was negotiating the Egyptian brokered ceasefire with Hamas that went into effect on June 19.
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Dionys10 months, 3 weeks ago
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"What would we do if rockets were being launched from Tijuana into San Diego every day?"
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Maybe ask what would Tijuana do if San Diegoans crossed the border to kill a few mexicans, breaking treaty agreements, before running back across the border to plan an invasion and bombing of Tijuana.
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jovial10 months, 3 weeks ago
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Seen any good Israeli TV comedy shows lately? Here's a synopsis of one that aired recently. All you holocaust survivors ought to get a kick out of this.
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jovial10 months, 3 weeks ago
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The ratio of civilians to hamas killed is 3:1 according to the former UK ambassador to the UN. Here's his statements..
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most_reasonable10 months, 3 weeks ago
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The brave HAMAS fighters like to use their children as shields. In a civilized nation that would be considered cowardice and is truly a crime against Humanity.
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In arab countries it is not only permissible it it praised.
Israel's foes believe in targeting women and children just so long as they're Jewish or Christian. They are not only intolerant of the freedoms we take for granted – speech and religion – but they are polygamous, treat their women as chattel and encourage their children to achieve martyrdom as suicide bombers. Moreover, so-called honor killings are part of what passes for their culture.
In order to realize what a paternalistic society they have, you need only look at a photo of an Arab mob carting a corpse through the streets of Gaza; even when it's the corpse of a child, I challenge you to find a woman anywhere in sight. So far as the Arabs are concerned, the mother, grandmother, aunts and sisters are of absolutely no consequence.
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jovial10 months, 3 weeks ago
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Here's the representative from Ohio Dennis Kuccinich on the Gaza conflict and our role in that conflict...
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jovial10 months, 3 weeks ago
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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle...
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BravoSierra10 months, 3 weeks ago
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When American decide to to back, it would be appropriate for the religious Christian right to ask that question they have made popular over the past few years: "What would Jesus do?" I think he would be in Palestine helping take care of the Palestinians....the Jews would probably bomb him for it.
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ChefEOD10 months, 3 weeks ago
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What would Jesus do? Let’s check…
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Ps 2:7-12 The LORD has said to Me, 'You are My Son, Today I have begotten You. Ask of Me, and I will give You the nations for Your inheritance, and the ends of the earth for Your possession. You shall break them with a rod of iron; You shall dash them to pieces like a potter's vessel.' " Now therefore, be wise, O kings; Be instructed, you judges of the earth. Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling. Kiss the Son, lest He be angry, and you perish in the way, when His wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all those who put their trust in Him. -
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