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Posted By dissent 8 months, 2 weeks ago in News(OCCUPIED EAST JERUSALEM) - In an apparent effort to sound "balanced" and "unbiased," the London-based human rights group, Amnesty International (AI), has urged the international community to halt arms sales to the Israeli regime and the Palestinian Islamic liberation movement, Hamas.
A report issued by the group on Sunday, February 22nd, pointed out that arms supplied to "the two sides" were used in attacks on civilians and "civilian objects" which constituted war crimes.
Nonetheless, a careful examination of the report shows a clear propensity on the part of AI to create a false symmetry between Hamas, a small liberation movement resisting a decades-old foreign military occupation, and Israel, a manifestly criminal state armed to the teeth, which has been committing every conceivable crime under the sun for the purpose of maintaining its colonialist occupation and brutal domination over the Palestinian people.
To be sure, no one claims that Hamas is completely blameless. Targeting innocent civilians is unacceptable.
However, equating the resistance of a long-persecuted people languishing under a military occupation, even if wrongs are done, with an immensely superior state terror unjustifiably perpetrated by an occupying power is morally unconscionable, to say the very least.
Indeed, doing so would be analogous to equating European resistance to the attacking Nazi armies during the Second World War, with the Nazi aggression itself.
Yes, firing home-made and other comparatively primitive projectiles on Israeli civilians is a regrettable act. However, the firing of these projectiles, which killed a few Israelis in 10 years of hostilities (virtually one Israeli per year), can't be compared with the nearly complete annihilation of Gaza's civilian infrastructure and wholesale murder of thousands of innocent men, women and children.
The excessive, disproportionate and often pornographic use of deadly violence against an essentially imprisoned and unprotected civilian population is more than just a mere miscalculation or faulty reasoning; it is rather a deliberate war crime the perpetrators of which are war criminals who ought to be prosecuted and punished for their crimes.
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we live in a culture of war.
let's make it a culture of peace.
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Endoscopy8 months, 1 week ago
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Super biased story. Ignores what the ideology of Hamas and other terrorist organizations say. Because of the Quran and hadith they believe that they must as the only option Destroy Israel, Kill all of the Jews, and install Sharia law in the area. Nothing less is acceptable. They view all outside organizations trying to broker peace as foolish. They explain it all in their charters.
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EDWARDIII8 months, 1 week ago
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"false symmetry between Hamas, a small liberation movement resisting a decades-old foreign military occupation, and Israel, a manifestly criminal state armed to the teeth, which has been committing every conceivable crime under the sun"
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Let's fix this stated position-- the false symetry is between Israel and the Iranian backers of Hamas. The Gazans are the victims but the Iranians are the victimisers, using them in a proxy war against the tiny Zionist state. -
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