Sunday, November 29, 2009
Tiger by the tail
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Goldstone Report highlights and conclusions:
1887. The timing of the first Israeli attack, at 11.30 a.m. on a weekday, when children were returning from school and the streets of Gaza were crowded with people going about their daily business, appears to have been calculated to create the greatest disruption and widespread panic among the civilian population. The treatment of many civilians detained or even killed while trying to surrender is one manifestation of the way in which the effective rules of engagement, standard operating procedures and instructions to the troops on the ground appear to have been framed in order to create an environment in which due regard for civilian lives and basic human dignity was replaced with disregard for basic international humanitarian law and human rights norms.
1889. The repeated failure to distinguish between combatants and civilians appears to the Mission to have been the result of deliberate guidance issued to soldiers, as described by some of them, and not the result of occasional lapses.
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1891. It is clear from evidence gathered by the Mission that the destruction of food supply installations, water sanitation systems, concrete factories and residential houses was the result of a deliberate and systematic policy by the Israeli armed forces. It was not carried out because those objects presented a military threat or opportunity, but to make the daily process of living, and dignified living, more difficult for the civilian population.
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1893. The operations were carefully planned in all their phases. Legal opinions and advice were given throughout the planning stages and at certain operational levels during the campaign. There were almost no mistakes made according to the Government of Israel. It is in these circumstances that the Mission concludes that what occurred in just over three weeks at the end of 2008 and the beginning of 2009 was a deliberately disproportionate attack designed to punish, humiliate and terrorize a civilian population, radically diminish its local economic capacity both to work and to provide for itself, and to force upon it an ever increasing sense of dependency and vulnerability.
Tuesday, November 03, 2009
The Goldstone Report: Fiasco for Obama Credibility
Monday, October 26, 2009
Thursday, October 08, 2009
Creepy guy from Moldova
"If optimism is a glass half full, pessimism a glass half empty, Israel Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman is the guy who pours out the glass and proudly proclaims it completely empty. The right-wing politician recently declared that there’s “no chance” of a solution to core issues of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and that people need to learn “to live with it.” Truthdig
I agree with Avigdor Lieberman that this is a
blessing of riches to be reaped for Israeli’s when
one considers the expanded health insurance in the US
(to come soon) -which will further expand the market
for illegally obtained organs from wounded
Palestinian children shot by the IDF.
There must certainly be a program of increased
compensation for soldiers to provide further
incentive for those who wound for the purposes of
organ harvesting. The prices will go up because the
schmear will involve more payoffs of airport
officials and customs inspectors.
The spin-off market will perhaps someday leave the
Middle East and concentrate solely in the US where
the spoilage problem is less severe. There are
plenty of poor people who are in desperate financial
agony and will be easily seduced by the organ brokers
to part with anything they have two of. Of course
when under the anesthetic, the operation for a kidney
could easily turn into a heart or liver and often was
the primary reason for getting a poor person to agree
to part with a kidney. You can always say “operator
error”.
This is a great way for people who have no human
worth to live beyond their natural lives by stealing
the hearts of those without money. This is the
darkest of ages and Avigdor Lieberman is brave enough
to face it with a smile. It’s not surprising that he
got his start in Moldova where rabbinical organ
trafficking is canonical. You have to admire someone
like Avigdor Lieberman who has/is chosen to lead his
people away from compassion and into the jaws of
perennial historical criticism and thorough lasting
eternal disgust and damnation.
Even Hitler couldn’t do that.

