Amnesty International accuses Israel of war crimes

If Palestinians stop attacking Israel, maybe they wouldn't have to deal with all of this. Israel is only defending itself.

Everyone forgets that Israel just didn't wake up and attack. The terrorist in the Gaza strip attacked Israel. There only war crime is that the people in Palestine let their own people attack Israel, and then are amazed when Israel attacks back?

Are there schools in Palestine that teach peace at all? Forgiveness? Tolerance?

Or is it only how to throw rocks, fire weapons, and go to gatherings to foster more hatred?

Palestinians can stop the violence any time they want. Don't attack Israel.

How dare anyone say that Israel is at fault here. They have given warnings over and over. I blame the Palestinian people who don't want peace!!!

The international community needs to stop looking at the effect and start looking at the cause. Rockets are launched into Israel daily (even during a truce), and Israel is expected to just accept it as status quo. Hamas started as a terrorist group that launched such attacks on Israel. Now they are elected government officials. If they are directly responsible for the current rockets, then it is an act of war. If they are not directly authorizing the attacks, they have a responsibilty as the official governing body to stop them. Is there any surprise that extremist terrorists make bad politicians when trying to negotiate peace? It is a shame, however, that innocent people are forced into the crossfire, no one will argue that.

You guys are so funny in you total lack of knowledge of International law. Amnesty can accuse all it wants. Amnesty accused al-Bashir of Sudan and absolutely nothing was done about it. Amnesty is upported by religious racists of the left. They are not the end all. Human Rights watch has also accused Hamas of violations or "war crimes." Doesn't mean there will ever be justice for Fatah. Your own article says this weapon is not illegal. That means amnesty must prove that it was used in a manner totally not allowed, You have to prove someone died from that munition and PROVE it was not a Hamas fighter. Hamas won't even let you look at most bodies so good luck. On top of that, no Jew will ever go to Amsterdam to be tried by the likes of Jew haters like you. That's why we have Israel, to keep idiots who don't do their homework away. Hitler couldn't kill us, Stalin couldn't kill us, and Osama won't be able to either. We are "chosen" to suffer for you so you can learn something about life. It's just too bad you're missing the lesson. We actually suffer for Palestinian deaths while Hamas glorifies it. If you can't see this, you obviously only read one side. Biased coverage is so 1950 Oh my Oreilys of the left. You go ahead, support your culture of death, denounce us monotheists and keep telling us how you are going to use the laws we WROTE against us. Fat chance. If it weren't for Jewish mothers forcing their kids into law there would be no good laws to protect human rights. Jews even died next to and marched with the Civil Rights movement we talked about all day yesterday. Know this, there are no "civil rights," in Iran. And Iran is who you support if you support Hamas. Do you think we give a shit if Olmert goes to jail? All we care about is that for now, kids in Sderot are back to school. And your version off Hitler lost this battle.

If there is a bright spot for Palestinians in the horrific violence of the last few weeks, it is that Israel's deployment of disproportionate and indiscriminate violence in Gaza has revealed the abnormality of the occupation for millions of people who previously had been unable to perceive it.

Look back as far you can, and tell when Amnesty International ever spoke out against terrorism peprpetrated against Israel?
Here is the reality. It's fine to kill Jewish children, but it's against humanity to kill Palestinian children.
Like the United Nations, Amnesty International is against the Jews, but they refer to the Jews as, Israelis or zionists. This gives them the chance to try to hide their hatred of Jews; they make it look like, "Oh we have nothing against Jews, we just hate the zionists and Israel." Yeah, right. We know they are really against the Jewish People.
Is there even one person who knows where amnesty international gets its money from?

It has become clear that Israel has been using White Phosphorous weapons without any regard of civilians thereby causing massive unneccesary damage. Any decent court will rule this as war crimes / crimes agains humanity.

I'm not even talking about the other crimes Israel committed, for instance deliberately targeting civilians and medics, depriving a people from basic necessities, using palestinian families as human shields and so on.

I hope we can welcome Olmert and Livni in the Hague soon. A strong message must be sent to the world that behaviour like this is not tolerable, not even if it is being committed by Israel or the USA.

and now, proof is coming in about the use of depleted uranium..this is disgusting and Israel will face more war crimes. The story at the link
http://current.com/items/89733753/depleted_uranium_found_in_gaza_victims.htm

Impartial international groups need to look into and press the charges for this war.

War is a crime.

So is this basically some American Indian-type shit or what? Is a fucking nice reservation too much to ask you selfish bastards? It works both ways.

Do they have no shame for Christ's sake?

i'm glad there is at least recognition of this, but it won't bring back the lives of those 600+ women and children killed. we need to make sure israel knows its actions will not be tolerated by the international community and actually do something about it.

They deserve everything they are getting, and none of those things are crimes, that's war. I hope they finish what they started. We need to support them 100%.

It's about time!!!

By looking at the stats its easy to understand why they are accusing Israel of war crimes:

1)1300+ dead
2) 5,500+ wounded
3) 10K+ homeless
4) 20K homes destroyed
5)Nearly all infrastructure including hospitals and schools destroyed.
6) No water, No electricity, little humanitarian aid

If this these are not war crimes, i don't know what is.

Also i think Its really interesting how they pulled out right before Obama's Inauguration. It's almost like this whole thing was planned from the beginning!!!

Thank god!!! someone is going to punish Israel for this unnecessary assault of Palestinians!!!

I hope someone...maybe the prime minister of Israel gets punished for the deaths of over a thousand people!

While they're at it, maybe someone should look at the checkpoints in Gaza and how some of the people on the strip can barely get to the essentials they need to stay alive like food/supplies/medical help.

THIS NEEDS TO STOP. I'm sooooo glad that people are speaking out.

Israel is receiving unbridled support from the United States (the other young-pup in the political standpoint of earth) because we are the only nations who ousted the indigenous populations (or as indigenous as one can get in the middle east) and called it political sanctions.
great job, looks like it backfired and you blame them [Palestine(what's left of it)] for the problem, when you [Israel] created it.

The only honorable members of the House, voting against unconditional support for Israeli killing of Palestinian children, were Democrats Dennis Kucinich (Ohio), Maxine Waters (California), Gwen Moore (Wisconsin), and Nick Rahall (West Virginia), along with Texas Republican Ron Paul. And Mr Kucinich put the whole case for their vote when he said

"In Gaza, the United Nations gave the Israeli army the coordinates of a UN school, and the school was then hit by Israeli tank fire, killing about 40. The UN put flags on emergency vehicles, coordinating the movements of those vehicles with the Israeli military, and the vehicles came under attack, killing emergency workers. The Israeli army evacuated 100 Palestinians to shelter, and then bombed the shelter, killing 30 people."

Blunt stuff – but it cut no ice with the 390 members of the House who voted for Israel to continue its killing.

The Power of AIPAC
Who Runs America?
By Brian Crowley
http://www.counterpunch.org/cloughley01162009.html

“When it comes to the Israeli-Arab conflict, the terms of debate are so influenced by organized Jewish groups like AIPAC that to be critical of Israel is to deny oneself the ability to succeed in American politics.” - Henry Siegman, former head of the American Jewish Congress

Robert Fisk: So, I asked the UN secretary general, isn't it time for a war crimes tribunal?
Mr Ban said it would not be up to him to launch a war crimes tribunal. It was pathetic

Isn't it Time for a War Crimes Tribunal?
By Robert Fisk:
It's a wrap, a doddle, an Israeli ceasefire just in time for Barack Obama to have a squeaky-clean inauguration with all the world looking at the streets of Washington rather than the rubble of Gaza.
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/robert-fisk-so-i-asked-th...