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A United Nations group will present a scathing report Tuesday on Israel's conduct during its military offensive into Gaza that began late last year.
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hyperbola2 months, 3 weeks ago
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Zionists have been committing crimes against humanity in Palestine for almost a century. What we Americans should be asking ourselves is why our media consistently lies about the situation in Palestine.
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New Legal Study finds that Israel is Practicing Apartheid and Colonialism in the occupied Palestinian territories
«International Law Observer
http://www.propeller.com/story/2009/09/29/new-lega...
The Human Sciences Research Council of South Africa (HSRC) has released a study conducted by a high-profile group of legal experts , indicating that Israel is practicing both colonialism and apartheid in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT)(See the Executive Summary of the Study ).
The HSRC commissioned an international team of scholars and practitioners of international public law from South Africa, the United Kingdom, Israel and the West Bank to conduct the study....
The resulting 300-page draft, titled ‘Occupation, Colonialism, Apartheid?: A re-assessment of Israel’s practices in the occupied Palestinian territories under international law’, represents 15 months of research and constitutes an exhaustive review of Israel’s practices in the OPT according to definitions of colonialism and apartheid provided by international law. The project was suggested originally by the January 2007 report by eminent South African jurist John Dugard, in his capacity as Special Rapporteur to the United Nations Human Rights Council, when he indicated that Israel practices had assumed characteristics of colonialism and apartheid.
Regarding colonialism, the team found that Israel’s policy and practices violate the prohibition on colonialism which the international community developed in the 1960s in response to the great decolonisation struggles in Africa and Asia. Israel’s policy is demonstrably to fragment the West Bank and annex part of it permanently to Israel, which is the hallmark of colonialism. Israel has appropriated land and water in the OPT, merged the Palestinian economy with Israel’s economy, and imposed a system of domination over Palestinians to ensure their subjugation to these measures. Through these measures, Israel has denied the indigenous population the right to self-determination and indicated clear intention to assume sovereignty over portions of its land and natural resources. Permanent annexation of territory in this fashion is the hallmark of colonialism.-
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hyperbola2 months, 3 weeks ago
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Regarding apartheid, the team found that Israel’s laws and policies in the OPT fit the definition of apartheid in the International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid. Israeli law conveys privileges to Jewish settlers and disadvantages Palestinians in the same territory on the basis of their respective identities, which function in this case as racialised identities in the sense provided by international law. Israel’s practices are corollary to five of the six ‘inhuman acts’ listed by the Convention. A policy of apartheid is especially indicated by Israel’s demarcation of geographic ‘reserves’ in the West Bank, to which Palestinian residence is confined and which Palestinians cannot leave without a permit. The system is very similar to the policy of ‘Grand Apartheid’ in apartheid South Africa, in which black South Africans were confined to black homelands delineated by the South African government, while white South Africans enjoyed freedom of movement and full civil rights in the rest of the country.
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The report concludes that the three pillars of apartheid in South Africa are all practiced by Israel in the OPT. In South Africa, the first pillar was to demarcate the population of South Africa into racial groups, and to accord superior rights, privileges and services to the white racial group. The second pillar was to segregate the population into different geographic areas, which were allocated by law to different racial groups, and restrict passage by members of any group into the area allocated to other groups. And the third pillar was “a matrix of draconian ‘security’ laws and policies that were employed to suppress any opposition to the regime and to reinforce the system of racial domination, by providing for administrative detention, torture, censorship, banning, and assassination.”
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hyperbola2 months, 3 weeks ago
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The Report finds that Israeli practices in the OPT exhibit the same three ‘pillars’ of apartheid: The first pillar “derives from Israeli laws and policies that establish Jewish identity for purposes of law and afford a preferential legal status and material benefits to Jews over non-Jews”.
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The second pillar is reflected in “Israel’s ‘grand’ policy to fragment the OPT [and] ensure that Palestinians remain confined to the reserves designated for them while Israeli Jews are prohibited from entering those reserves but enjoy freedom of movement throughout the rest of the Palestinian territory. This policy is evidenced by Israel’s extensive appropriation of Palestinian land, which continues to shrink the territorial space available to Palestinians; the hermetic closure and isolation of the Gaza Strip from the rest of the OPT; the deliberate severing of East Jerusalem from the rest of the West Bank; and the appropriation and construction policies serving to carve up the West Bank into an intricate and well-serviced network of connected settlements for Jewish-Israelis and an archipelago of besieged and non-contiguous enclaves for Palestinians”.
The third pillar is “Israel’s invocation of ’security’ to validate sweeping restrictions on Palestinian freedom of opinion, expression, assembly, association and movement [to] mask a true underlying intent to suppress dissent to its system of domination and thereby maintain control over Palestinians as a group.”......... -
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engineer2 months, 3 weeks ago
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Some more Anti Israel, Jew hating stuff. After being hit 11,000 times, was Israel suppose to just sit there.. If the Palestinians put their military in hospitals schools, etc., they have to accept the consequences of having these places hit.
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Israel was correct in what it did!!!-
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Justice4All2 months, 3 weeks ago
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The Jews were never mentioned. The real racists like to equate Zionism with all Jews so they can call anyone who questions their racial superority a jew hater.
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Israel is a terrorist nation occupying a foreign land. The UN and most of the world is starting to figure that out. -
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hyperbola2 months, 3 weeks ago
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Well engineer, perhaps you can tell us why you think:
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"aryan master race",
lebensraum (living space) for the master race, and
ethnic cleansing/genocide for "subhuman non-aryans"
are abominable ideologies that the whole world should condemn, but
"god's chosen people",
"zionist homeland" for the chosen people, and
ethnic cleansing/genocide for the "subhuman non-zionists"
are admirable ideologies that the whole world should support?
Face it, the zionists in Palestine have always been a racist minority (even now the UN census shows 10.5 million christian and moslem Palestinians and 5.5 million jewish Palestinians) that has imposed an abominable racist, apartheid on the majority population. They have been especially ruthless with christians, a larger percentage of whom have been ethnic cleansed by zionists than moslems. -
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hyperbola2 months, 3 weeks ago
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Fortunately there are more moral jews than the kind of pseudo-jewish zionist monsters you support engineer. Fortunately the numbers of the moral jews who detest zionism is growing.
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Palestinians and Israelis Follow Thoreau
http://www.propeller.com/story/2009/09/29/palestin...
Sometime in 1846, Henry David Thoreau spent a night in jail because he refused to pay his taxes. This was his way of opposing the Mexican-American War as well as the institution of slavery. A few years later he published the essay "Civil Disobedience," which has since been read by millions of people, including many Israelis and Palestinians.
Kobi Snitz read the book. He is an Israeli anarchist who is currently serving a 20-day sentence for refusing to pay a 2,000 shekel fine.
The 38-year-old Snitz was arrested with other activists in the small Palestinian village of Kharbatha back in 2004 while trying to prevent the demolition of the home of a prominent member of the local popular committee. The demolition, so it seems, was carried out both to intimidate and punish the local leader who had, just a couple of weeks earlier, begun organizing weekly demonstrations against the annexation wall. Both the demonstrations and the attempt to stop the demolition were acts of civil disobedience.
In a letter sent to friends the night before his incarceration, Snitz wrote, "I and the others who were arrested with me are guilty of nothing except not doing more to oppose the state’s truly criminal policies." Snitz also explained that paying the fine would be an acknowledgment of guilt, which he finds demeaning. Finally, he concluded his epistle by insisting that his punishment is trivial when compared to the punishment meted out to Palestinian teenagers who have resisted the occupation. These 13-, 14-, 15-, and 16-year olds, he claims, are often detained for 20 days before the legal process even begins.
Snitz is not exaggerating.
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Commodore12 months, 3 weeks ago
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Civilian casualties wouldn't occur at all if the cowardly Palestinians didn't hide behind them. Hospitals wouldn't be hit if the Palestinians didn't hide their munitions there. But hey, it's just another U.N. report and another U.N. resolution. So what? BFD! No one pays any attention to them. The U.N. is useless and sucks up lots of money while corrupt diplomats pad their wallets. I'm sure Israel will give just as much consideration to it as the Muslims or anyone else does. What a laugh.
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Jeboba2 months, 3 weeks ago
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It's time for the U.S. to divorce itself from the war-mongering israelis. I'm 65 years old and they have been doing it as long as I can remember. If they are going to rail against attacks on civilians by the palestinians, the way to show they are better than that is to NOT also attack and kill civilians...unfortunately in much greater numbers and upon much more 'tender' targets like hospitals.
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Israel's actions are inhumane. There is no excuse for their actions regardless of what Hamas, etc. has EVER done. Two wrongs don't make a right...remember your mama telling you that? Apparently that isn't true for the Israelis.
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