UN's Gaza war crimes probe to screen hearings live
The United Nations team which is investigating alleged war crimes committed during Operation Cast Lead, last January, announced on Wednesday that it would broadcast the hearings it plans to hold with Palestinian and Israeli victims live.
The team, led by veteran war crimes investigator Richard Goldstone, will hold the hearings in Gaza City on Sunday and Monday, UN officials said.
Spokeswoman Doune Porter said that the hearings would be broadcast and the media would be allowed to view them from a separate room.
She said Wednesday that the team also would hold hearings in Geneva on July 6-7 under the same conditions.
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Israel is too powerful to be touched by the UN, they have been ignoring the UN for how long now?? what makes you think this will do anything...
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"The team, led by veteran war crimes investigator Richard Goldstone ..."
Whoa, whoa! Wait! Stop! Hold-on!
You mean a JEW is charged with investigating and charging OTHER JEWS for crimes!?
Yeah, great! I'm sure the verdict will, how do you say, "Justice for All?"
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Yes,
the Jews will make some fine maneuvers, and they will get away with a lot, but the length of rope is getting shorter and shorter and one day they will drown in the quagmire of their own making.
It's getting close.
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Stealing from the Palestinians and stealing from their own. A thief once, always a THIEF.
Israeli Firms Accused Of Profiting From The Holocaust
By Jonathan Cookhttp://www.countercurrents.org/cook250609.htm
Israel’s second largest bank will be forced to defend itself in court in the coming weeks over claims it is withholding tens of millions of dollars in “lost” accounts belonging to Jews who died in the Nazi death camps
And Once a RACIST, ALWAYS A RACIST:
“David Ben Gurion [Israel’s first prime minister] notoriously called them ‘human dust’, and I remember as children we referred to them as sabonim, the Hebrew word for soap,” he said, in reference to the rumoured Nazi practice of making soap from Jewish corpses.“In fact, I can’t think of any place in the world where [Holocaust] survivors are as badly treated as they are in Israel,” Mr Elam said.
He said Bank Leumi’s “lost” accounts were only a small fraction of Holocaust assets held by Israeli companies and the Israeli state that should have been returned. The total could be as much as $20bn.
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HO HO !!!
He said European Jews had invested heavily in Palestine in the pre-war years, buying land, shares and insurance policies and opening bank accounts. During the Second World War Britain seized most of these assets as enemy property because the owners were living in Nazi-occupied lands.
In 1950 Britain repaid some $1.4 million to the new state of Israel, which was supposed to make reparations to the original owners.
However, little effort was made to trace them or, in the case of those who died in the Holocaust, their heirs. Instead the Israeli government is believed to have used the funds to settle new immigrants in Israel.
“These are huge assets, including real estate in some of the most desirable parts of Israel,” Mr Elam said.
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AND THEY INVESTIGATED THE FINANCIAL FRAUD?????
Last year the Israeli media reported an investigation showing that the finance ministry destroyed its real estate files in the 1950s, apparently to conceal the extent of the state’s holding of Holocaust assets.
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Jonathan Cook is a writer and journalist based in Nazareth, Israel. His latest books are “Israel and the Clash of Civilisations: Iraq, Iran and the Plan to Remake the Middle East” (Pluto Press) and “Disappearing Palestine: Israel's Experiments in Human Despair” (Zed Books). His website is www.jkcook.net.
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This a bold move , and good for the integrity and soul of Israel as well as justice over all , this progress , is good .
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cant get enough of tagging an entire people with a persons crime can ya, cuz every white person is timothy mcvey?
every muslum is osoma?
every jew is bernie madoff?
whos pushing the evil racist agenda?-
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israel treated holocaust survivors badly?
how by building a country that would protect them thats terrible your so right.
giving them freedom and dignity is so cruel
your really reaching on this one
