Majdi A asked:
The occupation is illegal under international law. “International humanitarian law prohibits [an] occupying power [from transferring] citizens from its own territory to the occupied territory (Fourth Geneva Convention, article 49).”
Also, if you are paying attention to the news, China is being targeted for violating human rights, but the news fails to mention violations of human rights that the Israeli government is doing to the Palestinians.
Because the record number of UN violations from Israel are conveniently ignored.
Comment by Think 1st — July 22, 2007 @ 1:03 am
I thought they did pull out of gaza a long time ago…since we’re going after everybody..what about Darfur or Saudi for that matter, how come nobody is coming after them for their civil rights violantions.
Comment by TranquilStar — July 24, 2007 @ 11:07 pm
Because, even tho they’re an apartheid State and Human Rights Violator, there is a profit for the US in not antagonizing them. They buy an ENORMOUS amount of weaponry, get Federal Funding and Financial Aid , they enjoy “Most Favored Nation” status in trade and there are very strong ties between American Zionists and the Nation of Israel.
Unfortunately, the world is such that anytime anyone criticizes the State of Israel they are automatically anti-Semitic fanatics. Israel drapes itself in the Holocaust as if to make Grand Regalia from lovingly nurtured bitterness. They will never move forward as a Nation, beyond the hurts of the past, and that inflexibility will ultimately destroy them.
Comment by Leo M — July 26, 2007 @ 10:17 am
You are right about Israel and about what Israel does and feels, but the Arabs also are full of unforgivingness. Unforgivingness is not a good foreign policy! Unforgivingness is a lose/lose proposition! And that is what Israel and the Palestinians are creating, unforgivingness!
It is kind of like a child’s game, but it is not a child’s game. It is childish game played by adults which kills their own children.
They should not play this game anymore!
Comment by zclifton2 — July 26, 2007 @ 12:05 pm
interesting. there is no Israeli presence in Gaza for the last 3 years, so who is occupying it now?
Comment by vic l — July 29, 2007 @ 9:56 am