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bacasper
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 Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2009 8:04 pm Post subject: Israel attacks Human Rights Watch |
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While not so surprising, it is still outrageous.
Israel Seeks Ways to Silence Human Rights Groups
By Jonathan Cook - Nazareth
In a bid to staunch the flow of damaging evidence of war crimes committed during Israel's winter assault on Gaza, the Israeli government has launched a campaign to clamp down on human rights groups, both in Israel and abroad.
It has begun by targeting one of the world�s leading rights organisations, the US-based Human Rights Watch (HRW), as well as a local group of dissident army veterans, Breaking the Silence, which last month published the testimonies of 26 combat soldiers who served in Gaza.
Additionally, according to the Israeli media, the government is planning a �much more aggressive stance� towards human rights groups working to help the Palestinians.
Officials have questioned the sources of funding received by the organisations and threatened legislation to ban support from foreign governments, particularly in Europe.
Breaking the Silence and other Israeli activists have responded by accusing the government of a �witch hunt� designed to intimidate them and starve them of the funds needed to pursue their investigations.
�This is a very dangerous step,� said Mikhael Mannekin, one of the directors of Breaking the Silence. �Israel is moving in a very anti-democratic direction.�
The campaign is reported to be the brainchild of the far-right foreign minister, Avigdor Lieberman, currently facing corruption charges, but has the backing of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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Summer Wine
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| Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2009 9:54 pm Post subject: |
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Human Right Watch (HRW) said Hamas should "publicly renounce" the attacks and hold those responsible to account.
HRW said while it had also criticised Israel over its actions in Gaza, "violations by one party to a conflict never justify violations by the other".
A Hamas spokesman has dismissed the group's allegations as "biased".
The 31-page report, Rockets from Gaza, covers the period after November 2008, when Hamas and other militant groups resumed attacks after an Israeli incursion into Gaza.
Three Israeli civilians have been killed in such attacks and dozens injured, with some rockets hitting targets as far as 46km (28 miles) from the Gaza Strip.
HRW programme director Iain Levine said the attacks by Hamas were "unlawful and unjustifiable, and amount to war crimes".
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Interesting how neither side seems to like them  |
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yawarakaijin
Joined: 08 Aug 2006
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| Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2009 10:00 pm Post subject: |
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All vermin despise the light. Doesn't matter which species.  |
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chris_J2
Joined: 17 Apr 2006
Location: From Brisbane, Au.
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| Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2009 10:05 pm Post subject: Israel |
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Maybe it's time for the US to cut the annual $3 billion foreign aid to Israel, that it donates in both military & financial aid, every year? And funnel it instead, to the 6.3 million Americans, who are unemployed, through job creation programs, or propping up big domestic US companies on the verge of bankruptcy?
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/132777
Israel is becoming arrogant, as well as uncaring. Maybe if they had to pay their own way?
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| If the United States is serious about changing the deadlock surrounding the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, they would benefit from treating extremism and intolerance within Israel with the same approach they use in Palestine, Lebanon and across the region -- isolation, condemnation and most importantly, consequences. |
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ahmed-shihabeldin/does-urging-israel-amount_b_252330.html |
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Summer Wine
Joined: 20 Mar 2005
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| Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2009 2:33 am Post subject: |
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Maybe the USA shouldn't train and arm both sides of the conflict 
It seems counter productive unless you don't actually care who wins.
Just Joking.
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E_athlete
Joined: 09 Jun 2009
Location: Korea sparkling
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| Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2009 3:14 am Post subject: |
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| I wish some country would nuke that Israel a couple times over. |
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thoreau
Joined: 21 Jun 2009
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| Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2009 4:00 am Post subject: |
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| This is troublesome. |
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bacasper
Joined: 26 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2009 9:37 am Post subject: |
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Human Right Watch (HRW) said Hamas should "publicly renounce" the attacks and hold those responsible to account.
HRW said while it had also criticised Israel over its actions in Gaza, "violations by one party to a conflict never justify violations by the other".
A Hamas spokesman has dismissed the group's allegations as "biased".
The 31-page report, Rockets from Gaza, covers the period after November 2008, when Hamas and other militant groups resumed attacks after an Israeli incursion into Gaza.
Three Israeli civilians have been killed in such attacks and dozens injured, with some rockets hitting targets as far as 46km (28 miles) from the Gaza Strip.
HRW programme director Iain Levine said the attacks by Hamas were "unlawful and unjustifiable, and amount to war crimes".
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Interesting how neither side seems to like them |
Yes. They must be doing something right!  |
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Kuros
Joined: 27 Apr 2004
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| Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2009 7:55 pm Post subject: |
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| E_athlete wrote: |
| I wish some country would nuke that Israel a couple times over. |
Thanks for saying this. Instead of arguing with you from now on, I'll spend my time more productively. |
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chris_J2
Joined: 17 Apr 2006
Location: From Brisbane, Au.
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| Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2009 8:55 pm Post subject: Israel |
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E_athlete wrote:
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| I wish some country would nuke that Israel a couple times over. |
I was thinking E_athlete was directly quoting Ahmadinejad of Iran. Hardly a fountain of scholastic enlightenment!
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E_athlete
Joined: 09 Jun 2009
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| Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2009 11:24 pm Post subject: |
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| Kuros wrote: |
| E_athlete wrote: |
| I wish some country would nuke that Israel a couple times over. |
Thanks for saying this. Instead of arguing with you from now on, I'll spend my time more productively. |
Argue? All you do is disagree with whatever I say and offer no actual arguments or insight at all. |
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TheUrbanMyth
Joined: 28 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Sat Aug 08, 2009 8:32 pm Post subject: Re: Israel |
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| chris_J2 wrote: |
Maybe it's time for the US to cut the annual $3 billion foreign aid to Israel, that it donates in both military & financial aid, every year? And funnel it instead, to the 6.3 million Americans, who are unemployed, through job creation programs, or propping up big domestic US companies on the verge of bankruptcy?
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America doesn't much care for HRW either. HRW has gone after them in the past as well. |
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TheUrbanMyth
Joined: 28 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Sat Aug 08, 2009 8:46 pm Post subject: |
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| E_athlete wrote: |
| I wish some country would nuke that Israel a couple times over. |
Anti-Semitism and advocating genocide in the same sentence.
Both are against the TOS not to mention particularly vile. |
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E_athlete
Joined: 09 Jun 2009
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| Posted: Sat Aug 08, 2009 9:17 pm Post subject: |
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| TheUrbanMyth wrote: |
| E_athlete wrote: |
| I wish some country would nuke that Israel a couple times over. |
Anti-Semitism and advocating genocide in the same sentence.
Both are against the TOS not to mention particularly vile. |
i meant Israel's government.
but I don't think I'd bat an eyelash either way.. |
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bacasper
Joined: 26 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Sat Aug 08, 2009 9:23 pm Post subject: |
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| TheUrbanMyth wrote: |
| E_athlete wrote: |
| I wish some country would nuke that Israel a couple times over. |
Anti-Semitism and advocating genocide in the same sentence.
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Confusing Israel with "the Jews" and genocide with military attack all in the same sentence. |
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