Prof. Francis Boyle: Israel Is Committing Genocide

where to even begin?
doesnt the very defenition of genocide mean that the targeted population would be on the decline not on the rise?
its like saying the tobacco companies are commiting a genocide on americans despite our population growing despite the millions dead from cancer.

1st off, i'm not Jewish/Christian zealot...but i find the so-called professor lacking credibility..."slow-motion genocide" lol...its called selective warfare...something the ill-educated professor knows little about...i assume he'd be happier if Israel wiped them out in one fell swoop...this guy is a joke!

No, Jews are not perfect, we are not a "superior race." We aren't chosen for anything but a hard time. But we airlift people like that INTO our country. We save starving people. We don't run them over on the way to war because of a land dispute and some religious differences and some oil.
Not one Palestinian has EVER starved in Israel or Gaza like these Sudanese kids. Don't even get me started on Islamic Somalia.
In fact, many Palestinians became doctors and lawyers in Israeli schools.
I wonder if they have any compassion for what their war on Jews has done to Sudan? To other Muslims?

W.I.S. I will admit I am biased. I am biased towards a nation which has remained cohesive and strong in diaspora and survived a halving of thier population only to rise up and UNDER CONSTANT ATTACK, claim 30%, hearing me??? 30% of all Nobel's, cure dozens of ailments, develop drip irrigation to benefit the world, and showed up to every disaster (even when we weren't wanted) to save thousands of lives. I don't care if you give me a laundry list of people who need a cause celebre to be famous for bad research.
NOT ONE Islamic country can claim ANY of these types of acheivements.
Our record of character should be taken into account in any biased or unbiased assesment of the situation. Our UNPRESCEDENTED amount of steps of warning civilians cannot be ignored.
Neither can the Palestinians record of blatant racism and violence.
Considering Palestinians lived in poverty before Israel (slaves to the Hashemites in Jordan) and now have a better standard of living than many Islamic nations,
everyone else can kiss Israel's ass.
Hamas is a part of a genocide in Sudan. 3 million people dead or dying. Half a million confirmed dead!!!! It is amazing that going to war with a genocidal regime group like Iran, Sudan and Hamas, that there is no great true seige or actual war like WWII that includes hundreds of thousands of Islamonazis and civilians dead. And this is a testament to Israeli and JEWISH values for the preservation of civilian life..

The total extermination of the Jews is a religious obligation incumbent on all Muslims. See links under 'Jews - extermination a religious duty' at http://crombouke.blogspot.com/2010/01/everything-you-need-to-know-about-islam.ht...

Excerpts from the Hamas Charter.

"Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it." (The Martyr, Imam Hassan al-Banna, of blessed memory).

"The Islamic Resistance Movement believes that the land of Palestine is an Islamic Waqf consecrated for future Muslim generations until Judgement Day. It, or any part of it, should not be squandered: it, or any part of it, should not be given up. "

"There is no solution for the Palestinian question except through Jihad. Initiatives, proposals and international conferences are all a waste of time and vain endeavors."

Absolute evil.

they got their claim to this holy land by killing all fo the people who lived there in th first place, why should they change their actions now!? (sarcasm)

MYTH

“Palestinians living under ‘occupation’ have the lowest standard of living in the Middle East.”

FACT

When Israel captured the West Bank and Gaza Strip in 1967, officials took measures to improve the conditions that Palestinians had lived under during Jordan’s 19-year occupation of the West Bank, and Egypt’s occupation of Gaza. Universities were opened, Israeli agricultural innovations were shared, modern conveniences were introduced, and health care was significantly upgraded. More than 100,000 Palestinians were employed in Israel, and were paid the same wages as Israeli workers, which stimulated economic growth.

The rise in violence during the 1990s, and then the war instigated by Palestinian terrorists beginning in 2000, has taken a heavy toll on the Palestinian economy. To protect its citizens from suicide bombers and other terrorists, Israel was forced to take measures that had a deleterious impact on the economy in the Palestinian Authority. The most serious step was to limit the number of Palestinian workers entering Israel to reduce the risk of terrorists pretending to be workers slipping into the country. This raised the level of unemployment, which, in turn, had a negative spillover effect on the rest of the Palestinian economy.

Despite the collapse of the PA economy from the last five years of war, Palestinian Arabs are still better off than many of their neighbors. The most recent Human Development Report from the United Nations ranks the PA 102nd in terms of life expectancy, educational attainment and adjusted real income out of the 177 countries and territories in the world, placing it in the “medium human development” category along with most of the other Middle Eastern states (only the Gulf sheikdoms are ranked “high”). The PA is ranked just 12 places below Jordan and one behind Iran; it is rated ahead of Syria (#105), Algeria (#108), Egypt (#120), and Morocco (#125).

Few Palestinians would trade places with Arabs in neighboring countries. Well, perhaps, with one exception. They might aspire to the standard of living in the country ranked 22nd by the UN – Israel.

MYTH

“Israel’s complaints about Palestinian terrorists hiding among civilians are just an effort to justify their murder of innocent people.”

FACT

Israel never intentionally targets civilians. Unfortunately, Palestinian terrorists have purposely tried to hide among the civilian population in an effort to use the Israeli army's morality against it. The terrorists themselves do not care about the lives of innocent Palestinians, which is why they are not hesitant to use them as shields. This behavior is a violation of international law. Article 51 of the 1977 amendment to the 1949 Geneva Conventions specifically prohibts the use of human shields:

The presence or movements of the civilian population or individual civilians shall not be used to render certain points or areas immune from military operations, in particular attempts to shield military objects from attacks or to shield, favor or impede military operations.

Thus, the Palestinian terrorists are ultimately responsible for noncombatants who are inadvertently killed or wounded as a result of the terrorists' practice of hiding among civilians to use them as shields.

MYTH

“Israel’s policies in the territories have caused a humanitarian crisis for the Palestinians.”

FACT

It is important to remember that Israel offered to withdraw from 97 percent of the West Bank and 100 percent of Gaza, and it is the rejection of that proposal, coupled with incessant Palestinian terrorism, that has forced Israeli troops to carry out operations in the territories. Though these actions have caused hardship for the Palestinian population, the IDF has continued to ensure that humanitarian assistance is provided to Palestinians in need. For example, during just one 48-hour period , the IDF:

* Coordinated the movement of Palestinians seeking medical care, assisting 40 to go to hospitals, including four patients from Gaza who were transferred to Israel for medical treatment.
* Coordinated the movement of 284 Palestinians in the West Bank who were transferred by ambulance.
* Coordinated the passage of building materials for the construction of a hospital in Kalkilya.
* Coordinated the passage of humanitarian goods to Bethlehem.
* Coordinated entry of ration cards sent by an international aid organization to the residents of Azoun.
* Enabled the distribution of ration cards by the Red Cross in Salfit.
* Coordinated the passage of agricultural produce and food between Muassi and Khan Yunis.
* Coordinated the passage of an UNRWA team in Gaza to aid in the disposal of rubbish.
* Arranged entry into Kalkilya for an Israeli Arab family from East Jerusalem to attend their son’s wedding.

Even at the height of military action, such as the operation to clean out the terrorist nest in the Jenin refugee camp, Israeli forces have gone out of their way to assist Palestinian non-combatants. In the case of the Jenin operation, for example, the hospital there was kept running with a generator delivered under fire by an Israeli officer.

The best way to improve the situation for the Palestinians in the territories is for the Palestinian Authority to take the steps laid out by the Bush Administration — end the violence, reform its institutions, and elect new leaders — so that peace talks may resume and a settlement can be negotiated.

MYTH

"Israel is pursuing a policy of genocide toward the Palestinians that is comparable to the Nazis' treatment of the Jews."

FACT

This is perhaps the most odious claim made by Israel's detractors. The Nazis' objective was the systematic extermination of every Jew in Europe. Israel is seeking peace with its Palestinian neighbors. More than one million Arabs live as free and equal citizens in Israel. Of the Palestinians in the territories, 98 percent live under the civil administration of the Palestinian Authority. While Israel sometimes employs harsh measures against Palestinians in the territories to protect Israeli citizens – Jews and non-Jews – from the incessant campaign of terror waged by the PA and Islamic radicals, there is no plan to persecute, exterminate, or expel the Palestinian people.

In response to one such comparison, by a poet who referred to the "Zionist SS," The New Republic's literary editor Leon Wieseltier observed:

The view that Zionism is Nazism — there is no other way to understand the phrase “Zionist SS” — is not different in kind from the view that the moon is cheese. It is not only spectacularly wrong, it is also spectacularly unintelligent. I will not offend myself (that would be self-hate speech!) by patiently explaining why the State of Israel is unlike the Third Reich, except to say that nothing that has befallen the Palestinians under Israel's control may responsibly be compared to what befell the Jews under Germany's control, and that a considerable number of the people who have toiled diligently to find peace and justice for the Palestinians, and a solution to this savage conflict, have been Israeli, some of them even Israeli prime ministers. There is no support for the Palestinian cause this side of decency that can justify the locution “Zionist SS.”

The absurdity of the charge is also clear from the demography of the disputed territories. While detractors make outrageous claims about Israel committing genocide or ethnic cleansing, the Palestinian population has continued to explode. In Gaza, for example, the population increased from 731,000 in July 1994 to 1,800,991 in 2008, an increase of 81 percent. The growth rate was 3.8 percent, one of the highest in the world. According to the UN, the total Palestinian population in all the disputed territories (they include Gaza, the West Bank, and East Jerusalem) was 1,006,000 in 1950, and rose to 1,094,000 in 1970, and exploded to 2,152,000 in 1990. Anthony Cordesman notes the increase “was the result of improvements in income and health services” made by Israel. The Palestinian population has continued to grow exponentially and was estimated in 2008 at more than 4.2 million.

And another thing, those genocidal fanatical Israelis just went to a CATHOLIC country and saved thousands of lives with a military hospital. And we all know how hard the Catholic church works to save Jewish lives. I am so sick of the blatant racists on this site. Jews have a right to a homeland and to be free from Islamic fundamentalism and terror.
Tell me, where was the Muslim faction in Haiti?
Saw a hindu, but not one Muslim.

I can prove this whole argument is based in racism against Jews because there is not one mention of Egypt or Jordans role in the DIRECT genocide of hundreds of thousands Palestinians after 67 nor their desire to isolate Hamas as well. Pure racism and Seraphina you are guilty of blaming the JEW for a regional radical terror problem. Deal with it. Guilty, guilty, guilty. Focus on the other countires that are more to blame or once, like Iran which has funded genocide of THREE MILLION in Sudan by sending arms to Hamas. It's just pitiful how ignorant and trendy people can be. Got ur cool scarf kids?

Thats "All The Children".......both sides.

You should walk the streets of Haifa, Tel Aviv, Tripoli, Jerusalem....Beirut, and Gaza.
Nothing short of "pathetic circumstance" these children grow up in.
Go there, see first hand what they are being dealt ......London is getting thier dose, and coming to a town near you.
Jimmy you failed to mention the schools funded by the Saudi Arabia......right, those. The icing comes forth in the form of political correctness.

The kind philanthropist Netanyahu "allowed" some commerce for their good behavior. All claims of genocide are hereby forgiven. Of course it has nothing to do with the fact they have overpowered the Palestinians into submission. Please refer to image below.
Our native Americans shouldn't complain either, because they have their reservations and casinos.

Voted down for vicious hate speech and malicious propaganda.

The enslavement and ghettoization of the Palestinians is only the beginning of the Zionist's plans. They are calling and demanding a "Greater Israel" from the Nile to the Euphrates, Walks in Storms.

Exactly, and to question their motives is to be antisemitic and pro terrorist. What the powers that be call a terrorist is merely a human being forced into fight or flight mode.

One of the biggest problems here is the American media and America's unilateral support of Israel. We hear about it every time that a Palestinian attacks Israel but we don't hear about what Israel does to Palestine. The have constructed a wall 5 miles into Palestinian land, and bulldozed countless houses belonging to Palestinians in the process. When the Palestinians tried to stand in the way of the dozers they were paid no attention and crushed if they did not move!! Also Israel has built colonies throughout Palestinian territory and connected the colonies with highways that Palestinian's are forbidden to travel on. So now i ask you, what do you think we would do if another country did this to our nation? I know what i would do and that is absolutely everything humanly possible to drive the invaders from our land!! Unfortunately the American media doesn't report details such as these because public opposition to Israels actions would severely hurt US munitions sales and put political pressure on the government to cut ties with one of our few allies in the middle east. Our unilateral support of Israel is one of the main reasons why soo many people in this area hate us! Israel is the only country in the world that we supply Blackhawk helicopters to along with a plethora of other weapons of war. This problem is actually a result of American action in the 50's( i believe circa 1955) when we divided the land up between the Israelis and Palestinians. Dont get me wrong these groups have been fighting for hundreds of years but segregation is not the answer and it actually makes tensions worse (especially given the treatment of the Palestinians!). Zionist Jews have a controlling share of our media and as a result we dont hear the full story. Ask Jimmy Carter who has been to Palestine, and Israel and he said it is a modern day apartheid, supported by US supplies, and carried out in the name of every one of us!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Let's put this in perspective...an outside force comes in and takes over your city bit by bit, systematically destroying your way of life, cutting off your access to supplies, jobs, water etc. Kills your family, friends, and neighbors. Tears down your homes, hospitals, etc. to make way for their settlements. Basically imprisoning you and closing the walls in.

How, pray tell, would you react?

"Until a radical change takes place and we wipe out all nationalities, all ideologies, all religious divisions, and establish a global relationship - psychologically first, inwardly before organizing the outer - we shall go on with wars." - J. Krishnamurti

I didn't need to read this Prof Boyle to have known for a long time the crimes the Israeli's commit in the name of their own security. Its just funny how a group of people who have been persecuted for thousands of years can justify their treatment of other human beings this way. Limited clean water and sewage in Gaza, those in Gaza have to smuggle cement in, I guess cement is a danger to Israeli Jews. The whole thing is a travesty.