It took seven years, three trillion dollars and a million corpses, but America has finally transformed Iraq from a cruel dictatorship ruled by torture and ethnic cleansing into a cruel dictatorship ruled by torture and ethnic cleansing where select survivors are free to vote for the torturer of their choice. And Jesus said "It is accomplished!"
Hi, HP! Thanks for intercepting my document! Oh, say hi to that nice Mr. Tice for me too, will you?
What class of carrier are you now? Not that it much matters - I guess that having both HP and the US Government in possession of my personal information and private, proprietary information is really both safer and more convenient. Just keep NSA on the bcc line, OK?
The perpetrators of the holocaust were the banks that extended credit to the Reich for the Wehrmacht.
Stern and Irgun were allied with the Nazi's, until at least El Alemaign.
Create a demand for Zionism?
and your arse will follow:
A Zionist will lie to God's face.
Israel IS a signatory to the 4th Geneva Convention, on Aug 12, 1949.
http://www.icrc.org/ihl.nsf/NORM/35D52356F487FC85C1256402003F9563?OpenDocument
The U.N. Security Council has already weighed in on the blockade (of which the flotilla attack is one part), attacking it in Resolution 1860 for collectively punishing the people of Gaza. The resolution calls for "the unimpeded provision and distribution throughout Gaza of humanitarian assistance, including food, fuel, and medical treatment." The criticism of the embargo as illegal is heavily rooted in the logic of the Fourth Geneva Convention, Article 3 of which mandates that states take all possible steps (even when formal wars have not been declared between two states) to protect noncombatants. Behavior that is expressly prohibited includes any actions that are a threat to individual life (9 civilian activists were killed in the flotilla attack). The taking of hostages (including the more than 660 seized by Israel) for political or military purposes is also prohibited. The blockade is illegal in that it violates the legal principles behind the Geneva Conventions, which were created for the general purpose of prohibiting states from engaging in collective punishment against civilians during times of conflict. Israel's collective attack on the civilians of Gaza (and its refusal to even acknowledge that they are under assault) represents a clear violation of the spirit and letter of the Geneva Conventions.
http://www.counterpunch.org/dimaggio06042010.html
Israel's blockade of Gaza violates the mandate of UNSC resolution 1860. Period.
I thought his brilliance came through in Differen' Strokes.
Right on, Brother.
It's Funny!
http://www.boingboing.net/2010/06/04/bpgoatse.jpg
Laugh!
No such thing as International Law? Is that what Zionism teaches, these days?
During the pre-dawn hours of May 31, 2010, the Israeli Navy attacked the six civilian vessels of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla. The attack took place in international waters against ships flying under national flags of countries with which Israel is not at war, namely Turkey, Greece and the United States. The ships were carrying civilians from more than sixteen countries.
Salient points:
Since no state of war existed at the time, the attack on these vessels constitutes an act of war against those governments under whose flags the vessels were sailing.
The attack falls within the purview of the ius ad bellum, those laws which govern the resort to armed conflict. Israel's action does not fall into the category of the ius in bello or the laws which govern the actual conduct of war.
Because this attack was carried out in international waters, the status of the relationship between Hamas, or any other Palestinian body, and the state of Israel is of no relevance whatsoever. Likewise, neither the blockade of Gaza nor Israel's claims and legal interpretations regarding it has any bearing on its acts of aggression in international waters.
This is not an act of piracy. Piracy is an act of aggression carried out in international waters by individuals and not by states.
The following internationally binding treaties, charters, and agreements are relevant to the attack by Israel:
1. Article 6 of the Charter Provisions of the Nuremburg Trials
(a) Crimes against Peace: namely, planning, preparation, initiation, or waging of a war of aggression, or a war in violation of international treaties, agreements or assurances, or participation in a common plan or conspiracy for the accomplishment of any of the foregoing;
(3) Crimes against Humanity: namely murder...deportation, and any other inhumane acts committed against any civilian population, before or during the war...in execution of or in connection with any crime...whether or not in violation of the domestic law of the country where perpetrated.
2. 1907 Hague Regulation Convention (XI) Relative to Certain Restrictions with Regard to the Exercise of the Right of Capture in Naval War
Chapter II - The Exemption from Capture of Certain Vessels
Article 4. Vessels charged with religious, scientific, or philanthropic missions are likewise exempt from capture.
Salient points:
The standard for judging the Israeli acts is objective and not subjective. It is irrelevant what Israeli ministers, generals, admirals, or soldiers thought or intended. The test is in what they did.
What they did was engage in acts of war using weapons of war in international waters against vessels that are protected not only in peacetime but also in times of war.
Israel has therefore committed both crimes against the peace and crimes against humanity.
These are crimes that have international jurisdiction. Israeli political and military personnel can be named in trials held in any and all countries of the world. If the Israelis do not attend the trials, they can be tried in abstentia, and those decisions in which the Israelis are found guilty can be executed anywhere in the world.
Because unarmed civilians were murdered by a preplanned military attack, capital crimes have been committed. While it would appear that the international community no longer finds capital punishment civilized, the punishments for these capital crimes can be multiple life sentences.
These crimes give rise to damage claims for huge sums of money and Israeli accounts can be blocked using decisions finding them guilty.
The unarmed vessels were on a philanthropic mission, carrying civilians and humanitarian supplies. Even if Israel were in a state of war with any of these countries, it would be prohibited from capturing the vessels according to the terms of the Hague Convention of 1907.
Conclusion:
It follows, therefore, that Israel was first of all not allowed to attack these vessels militarily, and then not to board these vessels by force, capture these vessels, attack the passengers, imprison them on the vessels, forcibly remove them from the vessels, and steal their private property in the form of cameras, computers, clothes, etc.
Every single act carried out by the Israeli military forces in international waters no May 31, 2010, are unqualifiedly and absolutely violations of international law.
Lynda Brayer is an Israeli human rights lawyer who specialized in the laws of war and international law in representing Palestinians. She is a graduate of the Hebrew University Faculty of Law and lives in Haifa. She can be reached at lyndabrayer@yahoo.com
Appendix:
The Gaza Freedom Flotilla included six vessels on May 31, 2010
1. Mavi Marmara, passenger boat, Turkey
2. Sofia, cargo ship, Greece
3. Gaza I, cargo ship, Turkey
4. Gaza II, cargo ship, Turkey
5. Spendoni, passenger ship, Greece
6. Challenger I, passenger ship, United States
At least nine passengers were killed, eight Turkish citizens and one U.S. citizen, Furkan Dogan, 19. The majority of the passengers aboard the ships were Turkish citizens. There were also nationals from Britain, Australia, Greece, Canada, Malaysia, Algeria, Serbia, Belgium, Ireland, Norway, Sweden, Kuwait and the United States.
Three German parliamentarians were aboard the Turkish boat that was stormed. There were also two Palestinian Members of the Knesset. Swedish author Henning Mankell was also on board the flotilla.
TAKE ACTION:
Despite Israeli spin-doctors, and Israel firsters in the United States, it's clear that Israel has broken international laws. Contact your government to call for an independent international investigation of Israel's attack on the flotilla, an end to the Gaza blockade, and an immediate halt to U.S. aid to Israel.
Phone the White House: 202-456-1414 or 202-456-1111. Or contact President Barack Obama by e-mail http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact
Will the blind America ever see the crime of Israel?
On the Gaza Relief Flotilla, an American Citizen - born in New York, Was Shot Five Times, including Four Times in Head. That is not self defense, that is execution.
Obama is studying the situation.
McCain thinks we are not doing enough to support Israel in this crisis.
Biden wonders what all the fuss is about.
And there are high placed members of the US government, proudly "dual-citizens" of US and Israel. In former times, this was called treason.
All these politicians, including the hundreds who take campaign money from AIPAC which represents the nation that just hijacked a US flagged ship in international waters, kidnapped 12 Americans, and murdered one, all hope they can convince you that immigration and gay marriage are the issues this election year.
I disagree
The issue is Israel.
No government can serve two masters and a government that serves Israel cannot serve the American people.
A politician who proclaims themselves a friend of Israel thus in the same breath proclaims himself an enemy of America.
America needs leaders who put America first, second, and third.
America needs leaders who put America first, second, and third.
America needs leaders who put America first, second, and third.
That is the only issue this election.
All his songs are coded references to being sodomized by Bernie Taupin. "Brown Dirt Cowboy" Yech...
Israel is a bunch of Polish, Ukrainian
Might does not make right. Your fake "hebrews" will finally pay for blaming the victim of their crime of aggression.
The TRUE descendants of the Biblical people DO live in Palestine - their forefathers converted to Christianity and Islam - they are today known as "Palestinian". The diaspora story is a lie. It has no basis in the historical record, nor archaeological evidence.
Stern and Irgun ripped this country from it's natives with terror that makes your vaunted Hamas rockets look like what they really are: Estes model rockets.
When Israel implodes on its own festering vileness, evil, corruption and hatred of humanity, the whole world will celebrate - except in the US, where worshiping the MYTH of Jewish historical victim hood is the real state religion.
Because they are BOUGHT. 50 Billion over 5 years. Per the Federation of American Scientists:
"United States has subsidized Egypt's armed forces with over $38 billion worth of aid. Egypt receives about $2 billion annually--$1.3 billion in foreign military financing and about $815 million in economic support fund assistance --making it the second largest regular recipient of conventional U.S. military and economic aid, after Israel. In 1990, the United States also forgave $7.1 billion in past Egyptian military debt in return for Egypt's support of Operation Desert Shield. In addition, Egypt receives excess defense articles worth hundreds of millions of dollars annually from the Pentagon. The announcement that 23,000 U.S. troops will be based in Egypt to conduct biannual military training exercises (Operation Bright Star) may have longer term implications for U.S. aid to the region, as might Egypt's willingness to support U.S. efforts against the Taliban."
http://www.fas.org/asmp/profiles/egypt.htm
Now, why do American taxes go by the HUNDRED BILLIONS to Israel and Egypt, when your dad can't get insurance to pay for his cancer meds?
Gee, I guess I didn't get caught for my murders, so I'm not going to burn in hell.
Do you get paid to advocate the murder of children, or are you compelled by an inner corruption?
This place just isn't big enough for all of us. We've got to find a way off this planet.
