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Israel set for blizzard of war crimes charges


Tel Aviv has 936 lawsuits against them for Gaza assault



Israel was set to face an avalanche of war crimes lawsuits from Palestinian lawyers who accused Tel Aviv of dozens of crimes five months after its three week assault on the Gaza Strip, the German daily Der Spiegel reported Saturday.

A group of Palestinian lawyers filed 936 lawsuits against Israel's Defense Forces (IDF) and the cases will soon be heard in Spain's National Court under universal jurisdiction, Iyad al-Alami, head of the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR), said.

PCHR's attorneys are collecting evidence of human rights violations and war crimes committed against unarmed civilians.
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    Accusations ranged fromshooting children and women at close range to the illegal use of white phosphorus bombs on civilians as well as attacks on ambulances and razing civilians' houses.

    Structural damage in Gaza was estimated at $ 1.6 billion.

    Other than PCHR, there are dozens of attorneys from Britain, Norway, New Zealand, the Netherlands and Spain working on lawsuits against Israel andwhich will be filed under the principle of universal jurisdiction, which studies cases of war crimes, genocide, torture and crimes against humanity.

    Six attorneys in Norway filed a lawsuit for human rights violations against Israel and are seeking a European arrest warrant against senior Israeli officials, one of whom is former prime minister Ehud Olmert.

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    Cost on Gaza infrastructure of Israeli bombardment put at $1.1bn

    Cost on Gaza infrastructure of Israeli bombardment put at $1.1bn

    The cost in direct loss of infrastructure from the recent Israeli military campaign in Gaza has been placed at $1.1bn.
    Figures released by the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) place the cost in destroyed housing throughout Gaza at $200m, while the estimated cost of clearing up the debris is $600m.
    Around 4,000 buildings have been destroyed in Gaza, while another 20,000 have been severely damaged. Some 50,000 Gazans have been left homeless by the fighting and 400,000 do not have running water.
    The PCBS says the Gazan economy is losing almost $4m a day as a result of the damage.
    Over 1,300 Palestinians died in the three-week campaign, while 13 Israelis were killed.
    Author: Hugh Tomlinson. Senior Reporter
    London

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    Communicating with Israelis may leave one bewildered. Even now when the Israeli Air Force is practicing murder in broad daylight of hundreds of civilians, elderly persons, women and children, the Israeli people manage to convince themselves that they are the real victims in this violent saga.

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    Astonishingly enough, the Israelis even within the so-called ‘left’ and even the educated ‘left’ fail to understand who the Palestinians are, where they come from and what they stand for. They fail to grasp that for the Palestinians, Palestine is home. Miraculously, the Israelis manage to fail to grasp that Israel had been erected at the expense of the Palestinian people, on Palestinian land, on Palestinian villages, towns, fields and orchards. The Israelis do not realise that Palestinians in Gaza and in refugee camps in the region are actually dispossessed people from Ber Shive, Yafo, Tel Kabir, Shekh Munis, Lod, Haifa, Jerusalem and many more towns and villages. If you wonder how come the Israelis don’t know their history, the answer is pretty simple, they have never been told. The circumstances that led to the Israeli Palestinian conflict are well hidden within their culture. Traces of pre-1948 Palestinian civilisation on the land had been wiped out. Not only the Nakba, the 1948 ethnic cleansing of the indigenous Palestinians, is not part of the Israeli curriculum, it is not even mentioned or discussed in any Israeli official or academic forum.

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    So now it's a war crime to defend yourself from attack? I have a solution for the 936 lawyers. Tell the terrorist group you elected to government to stop sending rockets into Israel to kill innocent Israelis and you won't have to worry about it.

    JohnA
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    Many Christians are Zionists while many Jews throughout the world, perhaps even the majority, are anti-Zionist. Anti-Zionism has nothing to do with persecution of the Jews. It is simply anti-racism and anti-colonialism as applied to the occupation of Palestine and the subjugation of its indigenous population.

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    ...and this is only the BEGINNING. And, God is pissed off! If this land was given to the Jews ONLY, then God would not have wanted OTHER INNOCENT children and people made homeless and MURDERED in GODS name.

    What the Jews are doing besides Genocide is Sacrilegious.

    In the Beginning, there was Light

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    There are those that claim that Israel was only acting in self defense but I do not think that is entirely accurate.

    Though there is a measure of self defense involved the level of retribution Israel inflicts reminds me of the man that was charged with murder last week for pumping 4 extra rounds into the young man that had robbed his pharmacy only on a much more gruesome scale.

    White phosphorous used as a weapon. Shelling UN facilities, schools and hospitals.

    Although I had my doubts about their actions equating to war crimes at first, the news of IDF veterans buying t-shirts depicting the killing of pregnant Palestinian women as killing a future terrorist and getting 2 with one stone, left little doubt that the Israeli army is in need of a serious reality check.

    War crimes trials will be a step in the right direction.

    The unavoidable reality that we and the Israelis must face is that brutality of that extent is unsustainable. The Romans found out the hard way. I would hope that we have learned enough from history that we would not repeat the same mistake and follow failed strategies and policies right off the edge into the abyss.

    Already we are paying the price for OUR involvement in the region by inspiring North Korea to become unreasonable and feel as if they can openly threaten us, not because we have a new President but rather because we are bogged down in 2 wars already and they know that there is very little will among the people to become engaged in a 3rd.

    So once again I say to hell with Israel. We owe them nothing. They need to pay for their crimes. Sadly one way or another we will also pay for ours.

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    This fight, according to the bible, started between 2 twin brothers. Jacob (Israel) lied, cheated, and stole to gain the birthright and blessing instead of his brother Esau (Palestine). Sadly, not much has changed over the centuries.

    WakeUpPeople
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    There is too much that I know, I do not know.
    And at this time, it cannot be resolved in the side-taking.
    They have to specify a set of agreements and go about living with them.
    All states need to be coherent governments that have control and responsibility for their territories.

    I understood that Palestine was the only real sticking point.

    I thought, perhaps therefore, that Palestine could be declared a religious free zone, akin to a United Nations of Peace. Something like where the Vatican is separate from Italy or where Washington DC is not a state.
    Palestine could be an International Religious Free City or State with the same relationship inside whatever permanent boundaries that are established and agreed upon much as that of the Vatican within Rome.

    Then Palestine would be the center of religious joy and peace forever.

    Please sign right here, the end.

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    And think how much money the trinket sellers would make then!

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    It's about time those murdering thugs pay for their crimes and are brought to justice.
    I want to see the entire world aware of the crimes against humanity the terrorist state of israhell commits.
    They can no longer hide.

    Ihatethemall
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    It is really sad and strangely 'old testament' that both sides, the Israeli's and the arabs, need to exact the last ounce of extremism in the name of defense, and have done so in such an open manner.

    An open manner that simply defies the consequences that the Palestinian's wish on the Israeli's and the Israeli's wish on the Palestinians.

    Can the consequences be put off any longer?

    Yes, there may be war crimes that the Israeli's are guilty of, but there are equally heinous crimes against innocents of all countries in the name of 'jihad.' All of those actions and crimes require appropriate consequenses -- to help both sides (and the rest of humanity) that craziness in the guise of 'defense' just will not work (no matter what Limbaugh and Cheney say)

    I, personally, know only enough of the conflict to instantly identify the inhumanity and insanity of it.

    jahbini
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    This means that if you attack the murderers you can be sued. Therefore, that means that you can also sue the ones who murdered in the first place. Interesting isn't it?
    The terrorists do not dare sue the United Nations for creating Israel. Why not? Because the U.N. ias far too large a body to play with and then lose. The terrorists also do not sue the 22 Arab countires surrounding them for not helping them and for abandoning them for 71 years. Why not? Because then they would have no friends after they become a state. The terrorists do not dare sue the Christian countries for supporting Israel. Why not? Because then it will seem like the Muslims are against the Christians and againthey don't dare start up with so many countries.
    So, they take the chicken way out and try to sue Israel for retaliation.
    Only the Muslims are allowed to kill and destroy Israel. If Israel dares to fight back and kill Muslims, it's time for lawsuits.
    Is there anyone who thinks Israel is going to pay one penny to the murderers and rapists?

    Abraham99
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    Only Nazis and Rawanda do war crimes as well as the Israelis.

    Israel has been waging war on all her neighbours ever since they got a bit of Palestine.....and they have EXPANDED AND EXPANDED...and Killed and killed while spending $3Billion American taxpayers money every year and still they play the victim card, and Hollywood is still ramming their victim complex down our throats.
    We saw them in action in Lebanon, and then in Palestine.
    No Excuses.
    Get rid of them as they don't behave like human beings.
    Build an ARK and float them away..........they are not interested in anything except acquiring the land of Palestine...........laying claim to it by their supposed Bible.
    And now they have been rumbled spying on America and gotten away with it.
    No justice.

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    War Crimes~Hold Them Accountable

    War Crimes~Hold Them Accountable

    This organisation is called “The Central Commission for Documentation and Pursuit of Israeli War Criminals” set up inside Gaza by the Government and their mission, in short, is to document, record, protect and investigate Israeli war crimes in Gaza in the hopes of bringing legal suits against the War Criminals. You can visit their site and sign up to their mailing list. People should support them; Israel needs to be held accountable for what they did. You can visit them here to read about their missions.

    Now, they have several units within this organisation, one of which produces media. Things like videos, movies, etc. The videos are on CD’s; and I have been lucky enough to obtain one. However, as they are on CD, I have no way to get them online at this time, although I am working on that as well. Still, I have managed to extract many of the photos to publish here. They want people to see exactly what the Israeli War Criminals did.

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    pictured one little girl whom I have picked out of the many photos. Many people will have seen one of the photos of her before, the one where only her small dusty head lies among the rubble of her home, the place she is meant to feel safe. I had always thought that only her small head was left as a stark reminder of her short life, and the crimes against humanity Israel committed in her neighbourhood. However, that photo is but one in three. In fact, she was buried up to her small head in rubble. She was eventually dug out of her very public grave, albeit her small body much to injured to have ever survived.

    Covered in rubble up to her neck

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    I thought to myself, who is she, what is her name, what was her favourite colour, her favourite food, her favourite toy. What was the sound of her laughter like? What did she dream of and what made her smile? These things we will never know, but we must all never forget, we must remember her and all the other close to 400 children massacred by Israel. Each one distinct, each one special, each one an individual, each one with the capacity to have changed the world, to have lived their dream, to have had an opportunity to leave their unique mark on this world. So with that thought, I would ask people to remember all the children below in the slideshow, victims of Israeli war criminals, each one. If you want to view the larger photos, click them to come to my flickr where they are much larger

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    Egypt, Saudis threaten to rescind Arab peace plan:

    Egypt, Saudis threaten to rescind Arab peace plan:

    Egypt and Saudi Arabia have been pressuring U.S. President Barack Obama to set a two-year deadline for an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement, and threatening to rescind the Arab peace initiative, Egyptian sources said Tuesday.

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    The initiative won't wait until your next term," the Egyptian officials warned Obama, and demanded results by the two year deadline.

    Saudi King Abdullah communicated the same message to Obama on the eve of the American president's Cairo speech June 4, only using harsher tone and more explicit language than the Egyptian officials.

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    The U.N. will help the "Commission" because it knows
    the Arab-Moslems are against the fact that it was the United Nations which brought Israel in as a nation, sop they feel guilty.
    The cowards who shoot missiles from porches on people's apartment houses are the ones who cause retaliation. The scared fakers who park and use their missle launchers next to hospitals are the ones who killed their own children by forcing retaliatory strikes.

    As expected, and as we always see here on Current, HighRoller is not interested in the human tragedy and the victims of war. No, he is only interested in the Arab children who were hurt and killed. Never, ever, not even one time, has anyone here ever seen any concern by HighRoller for the dead and wounded Israeli children. Not even one time. This is exactly the way it is with the Arab-Muslims. They do not consider the dead Jewish people to be important or even a news item. Now we can all see clearly who HighRoller's real client is, and why "highRoller" only reports about his hate for the Jewish people. Conviently and purposely, he calls the dead Israeli babies, "Zionists." They hired someone who speaks English fairly well to write for them. However, they forgot to make sure he knows what the word, "retaliation" means.
    HighRoller has revealed himself for what he is, an agent sent to propagandize his Muslim-Arab clients. That's why he is so busy writing seven or eight times over for every Current new item about Arabs and the Jewish people.

    Abraham99
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    Well we can only hope that justice is brought to this situation as soon as possible.

    kennymotown
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    SPEAKING OF WAR CRIMES....

    Samira Ahmed Jassim, 51, is accused of recruiting more than 80 women to become human bombs, including 28 who actually carried out attacks.

    She has apparently confessed to helping to organise the rape of young Iraqi women. Essentially, she got Iraqi soldiers interested in having sex, to rape these women.

    She would then play on the shame associated with victims of rape in Iraqi society to convince the women to become suicide bombers as their only means of escape.

    Her apparent confession was broadcast widely on Iraqi media, along with a video of Jassim, nicknamed “the mother of believers”, talking about her alleged crimes.

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    Abraham99

    That;s Horrific. but it's an old Israeli trick to try and deflect the attention from Israel's war crimes.

    Still does not distract us from Genocide committed by Israel. Israel needs to be held accountable, and pay damages to ALL their victims.....both in Palestine and in Israel and the huge number of Palestinians living as refugees in various Arab countries.
    Israel is a disgrace.

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    Israel believes in its illegal constructions of settlements in Palestine and genocides of Palestinians. The new Israeli cabinet largely opposes dismantling the outposts despite the fact that Israel agreed to it under the 2003 peace plan “roadmap”. Instead of a two-state solution backed by the US and the EU, Netanyahu is calling for a confusing “triple-track” peace process that includes progress on the political, security and economic front.. Whether Netanyahu clings to the original Zionist aggressive position will have a major bearing on the future course of Obama diplomacy.

    On May 18, President Obama met Benjamin Netanyahu, is a conservative who has pointedly stopped short of accepting the idea of a Palestinian state, which is the goal of the president and most other world leaders. There long have been predictions that the first Oval Office meeting between the two leaders would result in a noisy collision, as happened in 1996 when Netanyahu, in his previous term as prime minister, met with President Clinton. During Netanyahu’s visit to the US month, President Obama told him all settlement activity must end and also urged the Israeli leader to accept a Palestinian state and said Israel had an obligation under the 2003 agreement to stop Jewish settlement in the West Bank. Israel would have to respond by halting the construction and expansion of settlements, and agree to withdraw from land taken since 1967. The right of return of Palestinian refugees and the future status of Jerusalem would be negotiated within the framework of the deal. But Israeli foreign minister extremist hawkish Avigdor Lieberman has said the Israeli-Palestinian peace process was at a “dead end”.

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    Both USA and Israel split the PLO and Palestinians to play one against the other. Israel searches for reasons to stay in Palestine and kill the defenseless Palestinians. Israel is keen to make an anti-Iran coalition with Sunni Arab states. The Obama administration, meanwhile, is trying to promote dialogue with both Iran and Syria , and has reiterated their backing for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Clearly, the Obama administration backs the establishment of a Palestinian state as part of the solution to the Middle East conflict, though Netanyahu, who’s fascist Israel controls the Palestinian territories and the resources there, has yet to endorse the idea. Netanyahu has been vague in public about the scope of any future peace talks. His main right-wing and ultra-Orthodox coalition partners oppose negotiations on the so-called core issues — the borders of a Palestinian state as well as the fate of Jerusalem and Palestinian refugees.

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