Israel says its above the law for any war crime charges

Israel attacks during conflicts, Arabs attack during peace. And I have never heard of an Israeli suicide bomber.

and the isrealis wonder why they are hated world wide ,,,,,,,,,doh,,,,,,,,,,as small as isreal is , it could quite easily be the instigator of the 3rd world war ,,,with the help of america ,,, as they can do nothing without the usa ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,lets see who we think is the biggest terrorist ,,,compare the body count from 2000,,,,,isrealis vs palastinians,,,,,,,,,,,?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????OH,,IT SEEMS TO BE THE ISREALIS,,,,,no shock there,,,,,,,,,

"While much of the world is still pre-occupied with condemning Israel for its defensive war in Gaza in which 900 Palestinians were killed -- half of whom or more were terrorists -- tens of thousands of innocent people are being killed each month in the Congo in a war that started in 1994 with 800,000 people slaughtered in three months. Secretary General of the UN Ban Ki Moon has not flown to the Congo on a special mission, as he did to Gaza. Nor is the UN Human Rights Commission screaming about war crimes, as they are with Israel. Annie Lennox is not protesting in London, as she did against Israel. Nor are there any protests in Paris, Berlin, Stockholm, Oslo or anywhere else."

'The Worst Place'
The Editors, The New Republic Published: Wednesday, December 31, 2008

The Congo war is killing tens of thousands of people per month and is widely believed to be the world's gravest humanitarian emergency. For that reason alone, we in the West should be doing everything possible to end it. But, in case the people of eastern Congo needed an additional claim on our conscience, they happen to have one: The roots of the current war lie in the Rwandan genocide--perhaps the costliest error of inaction in the recent history of U.S. foreign policy. If we had acted differently in 1994, in other words, Congo might not be suffering now.
That year, after slaughtering 800,000 Rwandan Tutsis over a period of three months, Hutu extremists were chased by their country's new Tutsi-led government into eastern Congo (then called Zaire), where they began launching attacks into Rwanda. In response, Rwanda surged over the border to secure a buffer zone--overthrowing Zaire's government (led by the infamous Mobutu Sese Seko) in the process. This event sucked a total of six nations into a pair of wars within Congo's borders (one from 1996 to 1997, the other from 1998 to 2003) that claimed millions of lives.
Through it all, the Hutu génocidaires--who now call themselves the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Rwanda or FDLR--never disappeared from eastern Congo. And so, today, Rwanda's leaders are supporting a proxy army, the National Congress for the Defense of the People (CNDP), whose brutal leader Laurent Nkunda promises to protect the Tutsi diaspora in Rwanda's old buffer zone, even as he also threatens to topple the Congolese government. That government, now led by the son of the man who overthrew Mobutu, has hurled ineffective waves of its own troops at the CNDP while continuing to nurse the FDLR as a counterweight to both Nkunda and the Rwandans.
The effect of this fighting on civilians has been horrific. When the armies move, they inevitably kill, loot, rape, and abduct--forcing hundreds of thousands to move to refugee camps where they die of malaria, diarrhea, and wounds from sexual assault. The Congolese army, the FDLR, and the CNDP have all adopted systematic rape as a strategic tool. As a Center for American Progress report put it, "eastern Congo right now is perhaps the worst place in the world to be a woman or a girl. The sexual violence and rape exists on a scale seen nowhere else in the world."

First you have to convict someone of a crime WPTV. And I just don't think you have made your case very well. The Palestinians could have everything in the world, if they adopted a more peaceful strategy. Our bomb shelters and sirens do not make us bad people, they just make us able to protect ourselves. Still the injuries inflicted in the past eight years have been many. Not once have I ever said that I enjoy the killing of innocent people. However WPTV, you just did. And therefore, it is true, you are all Hamas. We are all innocent until "proven," guilty. Isn't this what you advocate for the detainees at Guantanamo? I do. As of yet, no trial has even begun much less been finished. I doubt you have ever seen a front loader in your life. I feel really sorry for the guy driving the bulldozer who I'm sure never meant to harm that poor girl. That's why it says "danger, heavy equipment," all around the damn thing. It has a reverse beeper and little orange signs. When you are in one, there is minimal visibility. Every year, Snowtech fixes dozens of garages. The guy who killed the grandmother in Tahoe Donner a few years back was devastated. He just scooped her up and the machine ate her. Do you really think some construction shmuck, and mind you, most construction workers in Israel, especially in the west bank, employed by Israel, are Palestinian, even the ones who bulldoze homes, do you really think this guy who makes 20$ an hour and has a family wanted that girl to die? To what end? To cause an international tradgedy? Get real.

If Israel had set up mobile hospitals to treat wounded civilians I would be more convinced that they seriously tried to avoid civilian casualties. Since they didn't, I am not too inclined to argue my sympathies for their position.

if America was a feeble military power and Mexico was a world super power that would more agreeable. There was a very good piece done by the BBC that compared the state of Israel to Ireland and the conflict between the Catholics and the Protestants. back to our analogy, If such were the case I would object to my nation throwing me as a citizen under the bus by attacking the occupying nation. besides the mexicans were there first. lol.

its like we've given them a policy of appeasement. And we know from history that appeasement only makes matters worse. Israel needs to back the fuck up!

These people will always fight each other. We cannot stop it no matter how hard we try. The hate is too deep. Maybe in generations to come but ...even that is a stretch...

Ribrandt:

Wrong analogy; the right one would be.. how would Americans feel if Mexicans where colonizing illegally in let's say Texas??? building entire colonies for Mexicans only.. and building a wall around it... and trapping texans without water resources and getting rid of their homes and their plantings.... How would America react.. that my friend is the real analogy

The state of Isreal has thus far acted with impunity. Hamas is also equally responsible in creating this situation because they did nothing to stop the rocket attacks which may or may not have been carried out by Hamas members. I get the feeling that Isreal acts as if the west will come to their rescue if the other islamic states like syria, jordan, egypt, and iran launch an attack on them in support of palestine. Isreal would get a rude awakening to find out that most of the world does not support their actions and there are very few pro-isreal countries.

of course they think they're above UN laws, they learned from us.

OK how about I put this into nice and simple terms so that everyone on both sides can understand the situation. These are all FACTS therefore it does not matter which side of the debate you are on.

Hamas is a terrorist organization. It uses despicable tactics against both Israeli and Palestinians alike. It is NOT a freedom fighting group as some would like to have you believe. Hamas has targeted Israeli civilians(including Kindergartens) and used Palestinians as human shields(although probably not on the level that some would have you believe).

Israel has closed off the borders to Gaza preventing much needed humanitarian supplies and prevented foreign medical personnel from doing their jobs. Israel has blatantly attacked Palestinian civilians on multiple occasions many of which are well documented. Israel has used Palestinian civilians as human shields on multiple occasions. Israeli forces have destroyed much of Gaza's infrastructure making life hell for the millions who live there. Israel has used weapons such as white phosphorus in densely populated areas which is against international law.

BOTH Israel and Hamas are guilty of war crimes.
BOTH have been shown to use human shields.
BOTH have blatantly targeted civilians.

Therefore both groups deserve to be held accountable for their actions in an international court of law. If Israel goes unpunished then there is no justice in this world.

Israel didn't say it was above the law, it said international law didn't apply. When your headlline is a lie, it destroys your credibility.

Israel commits war crimes and human rights violations and does it openly and without empathy and yet they still continue to cry when Hamas fires rockets across the border. Is the Israeli government really that stupid?

What Americans seem to forget is that Israel is fighting countries that want to drive it out of existence. Yes, it's response was too harsh, and I wish Israel would start appealing to Palestinians with aid in order to combat Hamas. But Israel was responding to missiles fired daily into Israel from Hamas, whose operatives hide in schools and hospitals. How would U.S. citizens want to respond if terrorists in Mexico were firing dozens of rockets a day into the U.S.? They would support an attack against the terrorists.

Mymicz you are fighting a winless battle here.

Enough of your mindless propaganda!

Let the rest of us who live in reality talk.

The only people who benefit from children dying in Gaza are the members of Hamas.

Are they stealing the american way?

You guys have such a beautiful peaceful way of talking about your enemies. You are sooooo fucking fake. You preech peace, but all you do is hate. No wonder the Jews are suspicious of the likes of you. You guys are like the biggest race baiters I've ever seen. You try to play objective, but you have never ever looked at in a fair light. You even deny geneaology when it's convienient, but laud indigenousness when you think it's cool. LAME. You guys are the reason there will never be peace, because Jewish people can never "trust," the world will ever give a shit about them. Just like you apologists don't give a shit about anywhere else but Gaza, like Sudan, or Sri Lanka, or anywhere. "Throw the Jews down the well, so my people can be free, and we will have a big party," Thanks Ali G. If all the Jews were dead today the worst of the Muslims would come for the Christians next. Don't doubt it for a second that that is what you support when you support Hamas so blindly. If you supported moderate Islam, you could actually do something for peace. I support a moderate Israel, and I do actually do things for peace. And I am sorry for every baby or mother, but I am not sorry Hamas men had to be dealt with like anyone who threatens. The international community should come there and actually do something instead of judging everyone who is under pressure. If we had soldiers on the ground from the UN this would not have happenned. Lebanon was kept quiet this time by the UN, amazingly. Israel has accepted this presence, while Hamas has not.

It's because Israel is god!

Friend of AmeriKKKa, Israel murdering women & children...

They are the right hand of AmeriKKKa

oh god where did you find a picture like that

You're right, but it's nice to say where
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Servicemembers%27_Protection_Act

opps, guess we kind of set the precedent for that one.

Ishahell is out of control and is getting more terroristic daily. Israhell should be dealt with. Aparthied and Genocide are punishable crimes and Israhell is praticing both. It is time for the laws of the world to put the terrorists and criminals in prison where they belong.

Israel has never, "allowed," anyone to be assaulted. They have always arrested settlers who commit crimes if they can catch them. They even pulled thousands out of their homes in Gaza to attempt to make peace. You are, as always, painfully biased. Israel does not have to supply Hamas with electricity. And Hamas should spend more time worrying how to take care of their own infrastructure than bombing kindergardens in Sderot. Everything Israel has done to be self sustaining, Hamas wants a piece of. Well, frankly, those who concentrate on hatred will eat their hatred and nothing else. Unless they steal it from the UN.

We will find out who is benefitting from wars and revolutions in our world...

We realize that there are criminals in our world who don't get caught and have successfully manipulated the world in their favor.

We can educate everyone on the dangers we are facing in this world and live together in harmony.

I want world peace just as much as the next person and we will find a way so that everyone can be held accountable for their actions, in other words a checks and balances for each person on the face of the earth and we will not let the control of such fall under any elected representatives.

In 1987, the UN General Assembly passed a resolution that all member states should combat ‘terrorism wherever and by whomever it is committed’. Only two states voted against it: the United States and Israel. At the time, this went unreported.
In 1988 Saddam Hussein attacked the Kurdish village of Halabja with nerve gas, killing five thousand people, the British and American governments did their best to discourage coverage of the atrocity; the Americans went as far as blaming it on Iran. However in 1991, when Saddam displeased his sponsors in Washington and London by attacking another of their clients, Kuwait, and was now an official enemy, the plight of Iraqi Kurds suddenly became a great charitable cause in the West. Headlines and TV footage documented made worthy victims of them.
The change of status did not apply to the Kurds across the border in Turkey, even though they are part of the same disposed nation and were being slaughtered in far greater numbers by the Turkish military. The Ankara regime is a member of NATO and beneficiary of Anglo-American, World Bank and IMF ‘aid’.
The current occupation of Iraq is seen from the same parallel world. When the BBC’s Director of News, Helen Boaden, was asked in January 2006 to explain how one of her ‘embedded’ reporters in Iraq could possibly describe the aim of the Anglo-American invasion as ‘bringing democracy and human rights’ to Iraq, she replied with sheaves of quotations from Tony Blair that this was indeed his aim, as if his now notorious mendacity and the truth were compatible. No other evidence was required.

The nation's immediate problem is that while the common man fights America's wars, the intellectual elite sets its agenda. Today, whether the West lives or dies is in the hands of its new power elite: those who set the terms of public debate, who manipulate the symbols, who decide whether nations or leaders will be depicted on 100 million television sets as 'good' or 'bad.' This power elite sets the limits of the possible for Presidents and Congress. It molds the impressions that move the nation, or that mire it.
--from "The Real War" (1980) by President Richard Nixon
While there are conspiracies going on in the world today, the pursuit of world government now is no longer conspiratorial in the sense of being hidden or secret. Rather, it's what socialist author H.G. Wells called "The Open Conspiracy," as prominent people such as Bill Clinton have openly written in support of world government. It will probably be a World Socialist Government, synthesizing western capitalism and eastern communism. In fact, Joseph Stalin in a speech at Sverdlov University in April 1924 pronounced that "the amalgamation and collaboration of nations within a single world system of economy... constitutes the material basis for the victory of Socialism." And regarding what world government will ultimately mean, it will be authoritarian and repressive, for as Lord Acton wrote: "Absolute power corrupts absolutely."

The Media on the Middle East: Double standards, and authorised censorship by omission.

In his epic acceptance of the 2005 Nobel Prize in Literature, Harold Pinter referred to ‘a vast tapestry of lies, upon which we feed.’ He asked why ‘the systematic brutality, the widespread atrocities, the ruthless suppression of independent thought’ of Stalinist Russia was well known in the West while American imperial crimes were merely ‘superficially recorded, let alone documented, let alone acknowledged.’ He was referring to the great silence, unbroken by the incessant din of the media age.
Across the world, the extinction and suffering of countless human beings could be attributed to rampant America. ‘But you wouldn’t know it’, said Pinter. ‘It never happened. Nothing ever happened. Even while it was happening it never happened. It didn’t matter. It was of no interest. To its shame the BBC ignored Pinter’s warning, and could not make room for the nation’s greatest living dramatist, so honoured, to tell the truth. For the BBC it never happened.
Whole societies are described by their relationship with ‘us’: Their usefulness to ‘our interests’ and their degree of compliance with (or hostility to us) our authority. Above all, they are not ‘us’. By the same rule a crime is only a crime if the perpetrators are ‘them.’ Often violent extinction causes not a ripple in the man-made phenomenon known as the ‘mainstream,’ the main source of what we call news.

. The overthrow of the popular Prime Minister, Dr. Mossadeq, in Iran in 1953 by coup d’état, was planned by the British and implemented by the CIA. Afterwards they reinstalled the country’s exiled monarch, Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, who remained in power for the next 25 years until he was ousted by revolution in 1979. The declassification of documents, and the unanticipated consequences of intervention, lays bare a vital piece of history that was suppressed.
The ouster of the Shah was initially welcomed, but the population soon learnt that a new brand of totalitarianism was taking over. The Islamic revolution of 1979 introduced a religious state in Iran, changing life drastically. There followed an eight year war with Iraq .....

Now tell me HOW CAN BOTH SIDES BE guilty? Hamas have only a few AK47s and a few crude rockets.....and the death toll in Israel from rockets is TWO.

Now Israel has some serious weaponery paid for by the American taxpayers,. The figures at the end of the war says it all .............................................the death of well over a thousand Palestinians and 13 Israelis. Sorry I'm rushing and have not got my figures to hand. I have a piece I am writing and I'll post it here.....it is a 'work in progress' I have on but it is relevant. I'll post it below.

Violence begets violence. Israel has unleashed a Pandora's box containing factions throughout the world that will unleash more violence on the world. Israel has no consideration in their actions, actions that were deliberately calculated by the Israeli Government to precipitate this violence before the bombing and during the cease fire.

1. Closing the borders

2. Not allowing medical supplies through

3. Not allowing food through

4. Not allowing humanitarian aid through

5. Cutting off electricity

6. Cutting off water supplies

7. Allowed illegal Jewish settlers to assault innocent Palestinians

8. not allowing Humanitarian organizations or Journalists in to SEE what Israel did and does!

All the above before the bombing and during the cease fire. People were starving, people were in need of medical supplies, babies were in need of milk, doctors in need of electricity to conduct surgeries. Sewage overflowing into the streets and the Mediterranean because the sewage processing plant cannot operate without electricity, causing a potential disease outbreak which still threatens Gaza.

What if someone locked you in a room with no food, no lights, no water and no medications or first aid supplies?

What would YOU do?

Both sides are guilty as far as I'm concerned. Maybe to different extents, but still.