News and Politics | February 04, 2009 | 32 comments

Outcry Against Gaza "War Crimes" Grows: CBS News

source: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/02/04/world/main4774433.shtml

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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday said the Gaza attacks were war crimes for which Israeli officials should be held accountable, but he insisted he would continue seeking a lasting peace with Israel.

Meanwhile, Benjamin Netanyahu, the front-runner for Israel's election next week, said his country's offensive against Hamas militants did not go far enough.

He said the government stopped the operation before the military could halt Hamas arms smuggling through tunnels under the border with Egypt. He told a security conference Wednesday that the government "did not allow the military to plug the hole in the south."

Critics of the recent violence in Gaza have called for a war crimes investigation into the actions of both Israel and Hamas. Among the questions being raised are whether Israel used disproportionate force and failed to protect civilians.

Human rights groups are seeking to build a case that Israel and Hamas violated the laws of war during the fighting last month in this tiny coastal territory - a charge both combatants reject.

Abbas - who is on a European tour seeking support for a unity government - gave a speech at EU Parliament detailing the suffering of Gaza's civilians during Israel's three-week offensive targeting Hamas militants.

He said he would push for a war crimes investigation into the Israeli attacks, which ended Jan. 18. When he said he held Israel's leaders accountable, he was applauded by European lawmakers.
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these slime politicians that committed these atrocious acts will go down for the rest of their lives. The end for Israel is near thru the legal system.
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32 comments // Outcry Against Gaza "War Crimes" Grows: CBS News

  • ciregg222
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      ciregg222  

    • DOES HAMAS PROTECT CIVILIANS WHEN THEY FIRE ROCKETS INTO TOWNS?

      DOES HAMAS PROTECT CIVILIANS WHEN THEY FIRE ROCKETS INTO TOWNS?

      DOES HAMAS PROTECT CIVILIANS WHEN THEY FIRE ROCKETS INTO TOWNS?

      DOES HAMAS PROTECT CIVILIANS WHEN THEY FIRE ROCKETS INTO TOWNS?

      OPEN YOUR EYES CURRENT COMMUNITY !!!!

      HAMAS HAS BEEN GUILTY OF WAR CRIMES FOR YEARS .. AND THE RESULT IS THE CURRENT INVASION TO TRY TO PUT AN END TO THEIR ATTACKS !!

      !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    • 3 years ago
  • fun_size
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      fun_size  
    • ciregg222:

      CRUISE CONTROL FOR COOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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    • 3 years ago
  • WorldPeaceTV
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      WorldPeaceTV  

    • another ignorant comment by an Israeli propagandist...so now CBS news is propaganda...get a flippin life..anything said against Israel is propaganda..how pitiful!

    • 3 years ago
  • clayjj05
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      clayjj05 [removed]  

    • another propoganda story from wptv how sad...

      how are we supposed to know that the man with the human shield is israeli. and if he was a shield hes not being used very effectively.

    • 3 years ago
  • derek901
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      derek901  
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    • Latest Offerings from the Religion of Peace
      "He who fights that Islam should be superior fights in Allah's cause"
      Muhammad, Prophet of Islam

      2009.02.04 (Kandahar, Afghanistan) - A brutal Taliban roadside bombing leaves six Afghanis dead.
      2009.02.04 (Mogadishu, Somalia) - The head of a radio station is gunned down by suspected Islamists.
      2009.02.03 (Ait Chaafa, Algeria) - Fundamentalists kill a security officer with a bombing attack.
      2009.02.03 (Swat, Pakistan) - Islamic militants assault a police post, killing three local officers.
      2009.02.03 (Orakzai, Pakistan) - Fundamentalists behead a local civilian.
      2009.02.03 (Dera Ismail Khan, Pakistan) - One person is killed when an Islamic radical tosses a grenade into a rival mosque.

    • 3 years ago
  • GhostGal
  • metalcookiesxy70
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      metalcookiesxy70  

    • I usually don't get invloved in such war, because I don't like it, but this is pretty much a senseless war going upon for nothing but chaos roaming around here on Current.com, debates are for education and so forth, but hating on one side and supporting the other is just as bad as opposing the other.....But sides(Israel and Palestine) have killed each other's side and sacrificing their own in the process, seems like an absolute war on current, all of the people associated with this are quite guilty, but both sides are wrong, you can indeed continue with your postings, but please remember to keep the open mindedness that both sides are wrong....War is bad..

    • 3 years ago
  • fun_size
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      fun_size  

    • Seriously Derek901, WorldPeaceTV and Highroller im sick and tired of seeing all your propaganda bullshit. You spam the same 20 acticles/pictures/cartoons on EVERY post about Gaza.

      How about you just keep to posting debates and discuss the conflict rather than parade the same damn pictures all over the place?

    • 3 years ago
  • Highr0ller
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      Highr0ller [removed]  

    • What is all that stuff that Derek is posting....not a link....and it reads like a bit of creative writing. Derek all that long post....WHAT WERE YOU TRYING TO SAY? Try to stick to facts and prove them by posting a link when you make so many unusual statements that seem a bit far fetched. Its fine if you can put up links to prove it......I like to research the info. and am open to an opinion that has a strong basis.

      Think the game is finally up for Israel. The world knows that the are WAR CRIMINALS and they turned the streets of Gaza into rivers of blood.

      I will still continue to speak against their atrocities....and still tell them I don't shake hands with them. There is blood on their hands,.................Palestinian blood.

      They try to rubbish things on here........only yesterday one of them said that the DAHR JAMAIL newsletter I pasted up was from a fake........he went on to say how great the real Dahr Jamail is and I then posted the mans credentials......................of course it is the great journalist Dahr Jamil that we were both talking about. Once I posted his credentials not a word......the member slunk away. I had the same happen with Professor Falk of Princeton University.....before I posted his creitentials I got this bit about ''anyone can post anything on the Internet.' Once again the member slunk off without a word.

      Most of us know who they are and how they misbehave................................apples off a bad tree....rotten to the core..

    • 3 years ago
  • unimatrix0
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      unimatrix0  

    • fuck war - fuck the blame game - the article said both Israel and Hamas are guilty of war crimes. That sounds right to me.

      For some this has turned into a mindless obsession of tit for tat.

      meh

    • 3 years ago
  • fun_size
  • Bren589
  • onechance
  • WorldPeaceTV
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      WorldPeaceTV  
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    • ah yes, waiting for the influx of propagandist sock puppets to call us racist, antisemitic, lier, etc etc. They just cannot stand the truth of what is happening to their beloved bent and criminal country.

      If they would come forward and spread a little intellectual conversation/debate like this site is all about, we may have a better chance to figure out how to "Fix" the WHOLE situation. They'd rather do the kindergarten thing and call names and inciting hate and discontent.

      http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b167/Jauhara/tonyagreipenweiner.jpg

    • 3 years ago
  • cerealforeal
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      cerealforeal  

    • I think what he meant by "did not go far enough", is that they already created Gaza into a concentration camp, but they didn't get enough time to install the gas chambers.

    • 3 years ago
  • dmass5
  • derek901
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      This is from a conservative website, but Nat Hentoff is a prominent American liberal who doesn't care for the erosion of free speech.

      Fatwa Against Arresting Terrorists (Islam Online)
      Nothing explains why Muslim terrorists kill so many co-religionists quite like this fatwa from a mainstream Islamic site, which passes a virtual death sentence on anyone hindering Jihad.

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      An Indian writer lays out the wonderful effect that the Religion of Peace has had on his people and culture.

      Daniel Pearl and the Normalization of Evil (Wall Street Journal)
      Just how low are the expectations for Islam these days? Devout Muslims kill and celebrate killers with such regularity that the rest of us hardly notice.

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      Throwing money at Muslim fanatics will not make them less fanatical - just more potent.

      What About Hindus? (Standpoint.Online)
      (Via JihadWatch) Hindus in Britain haven't killed enough innocent people to earn the same admiration as Islam.

      No to the Reconstruction of Gaza (Jerusalem Post)
      Keeping Palestinians on the dole will not help them. Neither will protecting them from the consequences of poor decisions.

      'The Israelis Wanted to Save Me!' (YouTube)
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    • 3 years ago
  • nkeg87
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      nkeg87  

    • "Meanwhile, Benjamin Netanyahu, the front-runner for Israel's election next week, said his country's offensive against Hamas militants did not go far enough."

      Now I wonder, what does that mean? They didnt kill enough? It wasnt strong enough? It wasnt long enough? What else do they think should have been done?

    • 3 years ago
  • Highr0ller
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      Highr0ller [removed]  

    • As the current US-Israel assault raged, Times columnist Thomas Friedman explained that Israel's tactics both in the current attack and in its invasion of Lebanon in 2006 are based on the sound principle of "trying to `educate' Hamas, by inflicting a heavy death toll on Hamas militants and heavy pain on the Gaza population." That makes sense on pragmatic grounds, as it did in Lebanon, where "the only long-term source of deterrence was to exact enough pain on the civilians -- the families and employers of the militants -- to restrain Hezbollah in the future." And by similar logic, bin Laden's effort to "educate" Americans on 9/11 was highly praiseworthy, as were the Nazi attacks on Lidice and Oradour, Putin's destruction of Grozny, and other notable attempts at "education."

    • 3 years ago
  • ampersand
  • Highr0ller
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      Highr0ller [removed]  
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    • Ask Not Who’s The Winner
      January 21, 2009 — Shahrzad
      Survivers of Hiroshima used to say something strange about the moments after the American nuclear bombing. For sometime after explosion, they could not realise if they were alive or dead, that much the scenes, ruins and massacre of civillians were horrible.

    • 3 years ago
  • Highr0ller
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    • openly discussed by high Israeli officials. Thirty years ago Chief of Staff Mordechai Gur observed that since 1948, "we have been fighting against a population that lives in villages and cities." As Israel's most prominent military analyst, Zeev Schiff, summarized his remarks, "the Israeli Army has always struck civilian populations, purposely and consciously ... the Army, he said, has never distinguished civilian [from military] targets ... [but] purposely attacked civilian targets." The reasons were explained by the distinguished statesman Abba Eban: "there was a rational prospect, ultimately fulfilled, that affected populations would exert pressure for the cessation of hostilities." The effect, as Eban well understood, would be to allow Israel to implement, undisturbed, its programs of illegal expansion and harsh repression. Eban was commenting on a review of Labor government attacks against civilians by Prime Minister Begin, presenting a picture, Eban said, "of an Israel wantonly inflicting every possible measure of death and anguish on civilian populations in a mood reminiscent of regimes which neither Mr.Begin nor I would dare to mention by name." Eban did not contest the facts that Begin reviewed, but criticized him for stating them publicly. Nor did it concern Eban, or his admirers, that his advocacy of massive state terror is also reminiscent of regimes he would not dare to mention by name.

    • 3 years ago
  • Highr0ller
  • nkeg87
  • WorldPeaceTV
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      WorldPeaceTV  
    • Highr0ller:

      wow, so sad..must of been a child from one of the UN schools. Its also sad that the propaganda I saw in the states coming from AIPAC and other Jewish groups say that these type of pictures are fake. How NASTY is that!!! Deny the Holocaust and you are fried!

    • 3 years ago
  • Highr0ller
  • unclematt
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      unclematt  
    • Highr0ller:

      I pity the Palestinians, but I don't pity Hamas. I feel the Palestinians are too frequently caught in the crossfire between Hamas and the Israelis, whether intentional or not. We, as world citizens, need to realize this and bring the fighting to an end.

    • 3 years ago
  • Highr0ller
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      Highr0ller [removed]  
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    • "Whenever justice is uncertain and police spying and terror are at work, human beings fall into isolation, which, of course, is the aim and purpose of the dictator state, since it is based on the greatest possible accumulation of depotentiated social units." -- Carl Gustav Jung - (1875-1961) Source: The Undiscovered Self, 1957

    • 3 years ago
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