UN's Gaza war crimes investigation faces obstacles »
Posted By dissent 4 months, 4 weeks ago in News
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip – A veteran U.N. war crimes investigator acknowledged his probe of possible war crimes by Israel and Hamas — which included interviewing dozens of victims and poring through the files of human rights groups — is unlikely to lead to prosecutions.
Israel has refused to cooperate, depriving his team access to military sources and victims of Hamas rockets. And Hamas security often accompanied his team during their five-day trip to Gaza last week, raising questions about the ability of witnesses to freely describe the militant group's actions.
But the chief barrier remains the lack of a court with clear jurisdiction to hear any resulting cases stemming from the investigation into Israel's three-week offensive in Gaza which ended in January and was designed to stop years of Hamas rocket fire into southern Israel.
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we live in a culture of war.
let's make it a culture of peace.
"my country is the world. and my religion is to ...
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cherev4 months, 4 weeks ago
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The U.N. has a long history of anti"Israel" bias. Jean Kirkpatrick, former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. was reminiscing on her four-year tenure at the United Nations under Ronald Reagan. She said "I felt for the first time in my life that I could understand how the Holocaust happened."
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"The United Nations hasn't really improved much in the years since I was there, and it hasn't really improved much at all with respect to Israel," said Kirkpatrick. She said that when she first began attending Security Council and General Assembly sessions as America's ambassador, "I was very deeply shocked by the simple anti-Semitism that pervaded the place."
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dissent4 months, 4 weeks ago
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you forgot to mention your source. a blogspot called israpundit.blogspot.com.
http://israpundit.blogspot.com/2002/10/friend-in-n...
it also rates a mention (barely) at internationalwallofprayer.org. both are pro-zionist but both do however credit the original source as the jerusalem post 28 oct, 2002 which has no record of it. but it also shows up on a couple of other pro-israeli forums with little interest, not that that lends you any further credibility
so i can see why you've excluded any source to support your argument seeing as the point you're trying to make is the "bias" of the un...... not yourself and your rather weak sources
btw.... my first post was canned as spam coz i dared to post more than one link. the one's cherev forgot to mention. go figure. -
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Natureboy4 months, 4 weeks ago
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"She said "I felt for the first time in my life that I could understand how the Holocaust happened.""
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Another holocaust pimp.
We MUST let Israel off the hook for war crimes because, um, er, uh, oh yeah, THE HOLOCAUST! There, the trump card has been played.
Those who most disrespect the the memory of Jews and others who died in the death camps are those who invoke the holocaust to justify oppression and murder. Cherev drags their memories through the mud more effectively than the holocaust deniers ever could.-
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Edmar144 months, 4 weeks ago
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Kirkpatrick has an impecable record as well as a great deal of respect around the world. Her remark on the Holocaust was symbolic and I can guarantee that she didn't make that remark to ruffle your feathers. Since Muslims and Muslim sympathizers deny that the holocaust happened (don't try to argue, Britain has already taken the Holocaust out of the curriculum of schools in Arab neighborhoods) I would expect that kind of remark from you. I would guess that I can relate that to "the poor Palestinians" who have never received any help from their fellow Muslims around the world. Although you may not deny the holocaust personally, you seem to have no problem using it as a tool as well, in reverse.
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Thinker224 months, 4 weeks ago
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> We MUST let Israel off the hook for war crimes because, um, er, uh, oh yeah, THE HOLOCAUST! There, the trump card has been played.
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Are you willing to let the Palestinians off a similar hook for terrorism because, um, er, uh, oh yeah, THE NAQBA? YES OR NO?
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