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POPSCan the US Imperialist attitude ever gain peace??? When has there ever been real peace negotiations while sides are still killing? Well maybe in the Paris Peace Talks with Vietnam, the US army wanted it both ways. Didn't work then either. Why should the US have boycotts on Syria? Why on Cuba? Surely if your case is fair, then the big stick should be at least out of sight! The value of unfair boycotts have proven pointless in Cuba. The longer the boycott, the stronger the opponent. North Korea!? Yet, I believe that a REAL boycott by the EU appeasers of WW2 would force peace in a year in the Middle East. Diplomacy is an oxymoron for Americans. Few imperialists ever won the peace.
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POPSUN accuses Israel of Gaza 'negligence or recklessness' It found the Israeli military's actions "involved varying degrees of negligence or recklessness", and that the military took "inadequate" precautions towards UN premises. It said the deaths of civilians should be investigated under the rules of international humanitarian law. The UN should take action "to seek accountability and pursue claims to secure reparation or reimbursement" for UN expenses and payments over deaths or injury to UN staff and damage to UN property where the responsibility lay with Israel, Hamas or any other party, the report added. In total, more than $11m worth of damage was caused to UN premises. The inquiry looked in detail at nine incidents, in which several Palestinians died. It found the Israeli military responsible in seven cases where it had "breached the inviolability" of the UN. ... Guardian
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POPS"If you do something for long enough, the world will accept it" Goebbels? Israel's campaign to rewrite international law to its advantage is deliberate and knowing. As the former head of Israel's 20-lawyer International Law Division in the Military Advocate General's office, Daniel Reisner, recently stated: ... sfgate George Bisharat is a professor of law at Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco, and writes frequently on law and politics in the Middle East.
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POPSAP: "Interviews support Israeli army misconduct in Gaza" "The accounts, published in two Israeli newspapers last week, further fueled international outrage over the Gaza offensive. Israel, which invaded Gaza to end years of rocket attacks by Hamas militants on Israeli towns, is already under international scrutiny about whether it used disproportionate force and failed to protect civilians. Gaza's Hamas rulers have been criticized for targeting civilian areas and using Palestinians as human shields. Senior military officials have acknowledged using massive firepower in Gaza to deter Hamas gunmen and prevent casualties among Israeli forces. The offensive was unprecedented in its deadliness, and contrasted with the smaller, pinpoint operations of the past in Gaza." ... AP
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POPSBBC: "2 Israeli police officers shot dead". No kids dead yet! How many Arab kids will die in retaliation? When will the eye for an eye stop? Olmert had hopes of a deal on the release of the two year IDF prisoner with Hamas before he left office in two days to go to jail. Looks now like he'll be serving his full term with the rapist president. Maybe if he'd not killed all those Gazan children?!
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POPS"US queries Israel's toilet-paper rules for Gaza" Photo: Palestinian students whose school was destroyed during Israel's 22-day offensive that ended in January, sit in class inside a trailer in Beit Lahiya in the northern Gaza Strip. The Saknain School students started class in trailers donated by the Dubai-based organization "Dubai Cares."
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POPS"Hamas's popularity rises after Israel's Gaza war" Is Ismail Haniyeh the new Fidel Castro? Is another stooge about to bit the dust? Have the Zionist got their wish to have no Palestinian leaders that they can deal with? Was this foreseeable outcome part of the 'big plan' all along to have no Palestinian partner in peace? As the Zionists are now lead by fascists worse than the Nazis they have obliterated any Palestinian voices that were not Hamas or Fatah.
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POPS"US professors call for academic/cultural boycott of Israel"
"The response has been remarkable given the extraordinary hold that lobbying organizations like AIPAC exert over U.S. politics and over the US media, and in particular given the campaign of intimidation that has been leveled at academics who dare to criticize Israel's policies," Lloyd wrote in an e-mail to Haaretz. "Within a short weekend since the posting of the press release, more than 80 academics from all over the country have endorsed the action and the numbers continue to grow." Asked if the group would accept the endorsement of Hamas supporters, Lloyd said, "We have no a priori policy with regard to the membership or affiliation of supporters of the boycott so long as they are in accord with the main aims stated in the press release." He argued that, "on several occasions Hamas has sought direct negotiations with Israel, a pursuit that constitutes de facto recognition of Israel, and has openly discussed abandoning its call for the destruction of the state of Israel con
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POPSEU foreign policy chief Javier Solana tours Gaza today!!! He viewed the ruins of the American International School and the wasteland of Ezbet Abed Rabbo, where scores of Palestinians huddle in shanties erected on mounds of rubble that used to be their homes. His visit came ahead of an international conference in Egypt on the rebuilding of Gaza. "I hope the meeting that will take place on Monday will be a good meeting with good consequences for people here," said Solana.
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POPSAn American Jewish mother returns from Gaza "Once You See What Truly Happened in Gaza, It Will Change You Forever." "What I saw was like a form of collective punishment, leaving behind a trail of grieving mothers, angry fathers and traumatized children."
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POPSBBC: "Who can probe Gaza war crimes claims?" The UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon strongly condemned the attacks. He has demanded "a thorough investigation into these incidents and the punishment of those who are responsible for these appalling acts." Mr Ban has also announced a UN inquiry into the "casualties and damage" at UN property during the conflict. Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, say this is not enough. They want a comprehensive international investigation into all the alleged violations of international law during the conflict - by Israel, by Hamas and by other Palestinian armed groups. HRW says it has been in Gaza investigating a number of allegations.
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POPSAmnesty: "compelling evidence of war crimes and other serious violations of international human." Amnesty International researchers who visited both Gaza and southern Israel during the fighting and in its immediate aftermath, found compelling evidence of war crimes and other serious violations of international humanitarian law . This included direct attacks by Israeli forces on Palestinian civilians and civilian objects in Gaza, attacks which breached the prohibition on disproportionate attacks and the use of weapons, such as white phosphorus, which have indiscriminate effects when used in densely-populated civilian areas. In the same period, Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups fired hundreds of indiscriminate rockets into civilian population centres in southern Israel. ... Amnesty press report Feb 10 2009
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POPSNYT; "UN Chief Says Israel Is Blocking Most Gaza Aid" “We are experiencing serious difficulty in getting all the materials, humanitarian assistance, so it is absolutely necessary that they open the crossings,” said Mr. Ban, whose previous statements urging Israel to allow more aid into Gaza have been ignored.“I will continue to urge that.” Irene Khan, the secretary general of Amnesty International, said that researchers had found compelling evidence of war crimes and other violations of international law committed during the three weeks of fighting that ended Jan. 18. “What is needed is a comprehensive international investigation that looks at all alleged violations of international law — by Israel, by Hamas and by other Palestinian armed groups involved in the conflict,” Ms. Khan said. ...NYT
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POPSMcClatchyde: IDF used Gazans as HUMAN SHIELDS "There is powerful evidence that Israel used the tactic that they are accusing Hamas of using," said Fred Abrahams, a Human Rights Watch senior researcher who's investigating what happened in Gaza during the recent Israeli military offensive, which killed more than 1,200 Palestinians. The Abed Rabbo case also is under investigation by the Israeli human-rights group B'Tselem, which led a long campaign that eventually persuaded the Israeli Supreme Court to order the Israeli military in 2005 to stop using Palestinians as human shields. "The testimony seems pretty extensive and presents grave suspicions that Israeli soldiers forced Palestinians to perform dangerous tasks," said B'Tselem spokeswoman Sarit Michaeli. "And the fact that we're seeing these allegations on such a wide scale leads us to suspect that this was policy and not the decisions of one or two random soldiers."
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POPSHaaretz: "Why should Hamas recognise Israel?" Israel's stance against recognizing a Palestinian government composed primarily of Hamas members who do not recognize Israel seems completely understandable. Most of the Palestinian public is not demanding that Hamas recognize Israel. This is what a reliable survey conducted in the territories indicates. The explanation for this is expressed by Hamas spokesmen in every corner, from Rafah to Jenin, and is very accepted in the territories: Look, Yasser Arafat and the PLO recognized the State of Israel in the Oslo agreement and what did they gain from that? Only suffering and misfortune. The economic siege on the West Bank and Gaza Strip, the targeted killings, the raids and checkpoints can be explained as an Israeli defense against terror attacks. But how can one explain the doubling of the number of settlers in the West Bank and Jerusalem since the Madrid conference and Oslo agreement? Since the 1996 elections in Israel, and almost through the end of Ehud Barak's government, there
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POPSIsrael has History of Deliberate PROVOCATION as pretext to INVASION. In 1981-1982, when it launched violent raids on Lebanon in order to provoke Palestinian escalation preceding the Israeli invasion of Lebanon; and between 2001-2004, when PM Sharon repeatedly ordered assassinations of high-level Palestinian militants during declared ceasefires, provoking violent attacks that enabled Israel's virtual reoccupation of the West Bank. Israel's current assault on Gaza bears many trademark elements of Israel's long history of employing "strategic escalation" to manufacture a major crisis, if not a war.
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POPSIsrael JMCC Poll: Hamas Consolidates Power in WEST BANK In Gaza, the poll put Hamas at 28% against 33.6% for Abbas's Fatah. In the West Bank, the poll gave Hamas 29% support against 24.5% for Fatah. The balance was shared by a countless of smaller parties. The pollsters surveyed a sample of 1,198 people, 758 in the West Bank and 440 in Gaza. It gave a margin of error of 3%. The poll also found that Hamas premier Ismail Haneya, who was deposed after his movement's takeover of Gaza, is the most trusted Palestinian politician with 21.1% support, far ahead of the current President Abbas with 13.4%.
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POPSBlair has risked the anger of Israel by suggesting its time to talk to HAMAS I distrust Blair's conversions. There was his conversion to become Bush's lap-dog and we had the illegal Iraqi Invasion. There was his conversion to Catholicism when I believes that a non-Christian faith was where he was at! Clearly this conversion is not taken seriously by many!? Search and you will find that ONLY the three sources quoted here carried his conversion. It never happened folks in it's not in the Zionist media!!! Obviously Blair then is totally offside in this. Clearly he is now prepared to mouth off if the money is right. This time it was The Times of London's money. When you brown nose for as long now as he has in the Bush trough, then truth and reality become very distant! Yesterday's man.
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POPSSpirit of WW2 Ghetto Resistance Alive in Gaza against updated Nazis. The Nazis' Pearl Harbour style sneak attack commencing with the deliberate murder of unarmed civil police on parade, may not have given Gazans and the elected Hamas much opportunity not to resist. Probably knowing that execution of POW is the usual modus operandi of the murderous IDF, made resistance the only option. So that point of this article - that Arab the steadfastness of resistance re-enforces the the ides of future resistance - may not have commenced as completely valid but now is!
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POPSMorning After. "Hamas Still in Business". Round 2 before Election The pause for Obama's enthronement has been observed. The next round will be pre-elections in Israel, so within a fortnight. Barak's gang are losing in the polls so another 1,000 dead Gazan women, children and civilians might swing it back their way. Dead Gazans equals more votes?! Certainly, they have nothing to lose. Has their worldwide reputation ever been lower - well excepting in the US that did so little pre WW2 and is making up for it since at Arab expense? They are opening called Nazis and worse. Their crocodile tears for the GOOD Jews, non-Zionist, that died in the WW2 holocaust are wasted, particularly among the many who know the part played by Zionist in collusion in the deaths in WW2! Their beggar-bowl may be empty from here on! Who would want to seen supporting Hitler once WW2 started?! CNN Video- Morning After. http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/01/21/gaza.analysis.wedeman/#cnnSTCVideo
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POPSSlow GENOCIDE. 2006: 'Put the Palestinians on a diet, but not to make them die of hunger,' yet The slow genocide of Gazans as the official policy of the Zionist government as announce by Olmert's chief advisor. THIS IS IN APRIL 2006!!! This lingering death just to force Hamas to recognise the de facto reality that the state of Israel exists! Hamas would agree if Israel withdrew in reality too, so that was never the real purpose of the starvation. Forcing the democratically elected Hamas from power was the REAL purpose of the slow genocide. This blighted beacon of democracy in the M-East could not tolerate a REAL democracy next door without hanging chads or politically appointed judges deciding the outcome!!!
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POPSThe TRUTH, but not as you know it, in the USA media!!! Article written by Henry Siegman, director of the US Middle East Project in New York, is a visiting research professor at SOAS, University of London. He is a former national director of the American Jewish Congress and of the Synagogue Council of America. He should know of that he writes!!!
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