ISRAEL APPEALS TO HUMAN RIGHTS CHAMPIONS

Israel is seeking support from "Human Rights Champions" to kill off a report that illustrates Israel's Human Rights Violations !!

No, seriously. This is an amazing twisting of facts, even for Israel I must say. This is like Jeffrey Dahmer appealing to gay groups for support of his crimes. I was listening live on Aljazeera this morning to the report from the UN regarding the Goldstone Report, shortly appeared the Israeli Ambassador to the UN, Gabriela Shalev who said this taken from Aljazeera online, followed by a statement that I wrote down which has not been included in the online article but was part of what she said in the live interview immediately after the statement below:

And Gabriela Shalev, Israel's ambassador to the UN, did not refer at all to
the Goldstone report during the meeting on Wednesday, but dismissed its
findings before the debate even began.

"I regret to say that the Goldstone report is one-sided, biased
and therefore wrong - just as the forum and mandate that established its mission," she said.

Her racist coded language above, is aimed of course at Western states, she dismisses the report along with all the Arab states who support it. Along with the 115 non-aligned movement who also call on the HRC to hold Israel accountable. Shall I translate her "hasbara" for you? Here's what she is ACTUALLY saying to the Arab UN members, translated from the "hasbara Book of Bullshit" America will armtwist it's allies and will get us off the hook again no matter what you Arab states vote for. Therefore "WE ROCK, YOU SUCK"

And Americans wonder why Arabs/Muslims don't like you? The UN is meant to give equal voice to member states, it is not meant to be a place where all countries have to adhere to UN Resolutions and International law except Israel and the USA. Members take democratic votes, it's called democracy when the US and Israel win one with a majority, but when Arab states win one with a majority it's suddenly no longer "democratic"

But what I have been unable to find online is the very next few sentences she said after this, which, are truly amazing. So I rewound and wrote it all down, because you just can't miss the absurdity of it. Note, she is referring to the Goldstone report being a lie and anti-Israel and is appealing for help from other UN members to kill the report:

"We trust, like minded states and countries, and representatives, and Human Rights "CHAMPIONS" will be able to move this forward."

Is that stunning or what? Israel seeking support from "Human Rights Champions" to kill off a report that illustrates Israel's Human Rights Violations !! Still you have to give them an award for "Chutzpah" or in our language "Bullshite"

NETANYAHU IS RIGHT!!!!!!

Sometimes words are powerful things. And sometimes they are not. I am talking about Netanyahu’s words immediately after the Summit on Tuesday. I watched it live on television, not expecting anything as explained here. But still I watched, and afterwards a grinning Netanyahu said this about Illegal settlements:

¼ Million people living in those communities

They need Kindergartens, they need Schools,

they need Health Clinics….they are living

People have to live, you cannot freeze life

I’m sure he thought he was brilliant, that he made sense, that he could paint a picture with his words so that everyone would understand and have sympathy for the inhabitants of illegal settlements. And I have to say that I actually agree with his words "verbatim." Now, I'll bet you think I've lost my mind overnight, or that I've been indoctrinated by Zionists in my sleep. But let me show you why he's right about "illegal settlements." Because sometimes you need no words to prove your point:

¼ Million people living in those communities

There are more than 1/4 million who live in THESE Illegal settlements:






They need Kindergartens, they need Schools,

YES THEY DO!!




they need Health Clinics….

YES THEY DO!!!


AND THEY NEED THEM BECAUSE OF THIS:





People have to live, you cannot freeze life

YES, THEY LIVE:






AND THE ULTIMATE INSULT TO ISRAEL IS THIS:
AND WHO SAYS A PICTURE IS NOT WORTH 1,000 OF NETANYAHU'S WORDS!

GOLDSTONE REPORT BURIED FOREVER

Hate to say I told you so, but I told you so.....

U.S., Israel Move To Keep Goldstone Report From Going to Security Council

Israeli and American diplomats came to the United Nations not to praise the Goldstone Report, but to bury it. And unlike Marc Antony in his eulogy for Julius Caesar, they meant it.

The report, released September 15, caused a huge initial international stir, not only because of its findings — the bulk of them focusing on Israel — but also because of its ultimate recommendation: that the United Nations Security Council, which has binding power under international law, require Israel and Hamas, which controls Gaza, to conduct their own respective independent investigations of the evidence of human rights violations cited in the report. If they do not do so within six months, the report urged the Security Council to refer their cases to the International Criminal Court in the Hague.

But in the days following the release of Goldstone’s report, it became clear that in the arm-wrestling contest between international rights organizations and the established Israeli-American diplomatic bond, the latter wins easily.

As a result of their efforts, it appears all but certain that the report accusing Israel and the Palestinian faction Hamas of war crimes and possible crimes against humanity will not reach any binding international forums.

The 574-page report, commissioned by the U.N.’s Human Rights Council, was overseen by Judge Richard Goldstone, a widely respected South African jurist who had served on his country’s highest court and gone on to prosecute war crimes in Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia. The report scrutinized the events of the December 2008 Operation Cast Lead, in which Israel bombarded Gaza from the air and ground in response to the continued firing of rockets by Hamas militants at Israeli towns.

Estimates of Palestinian dead from the campaign range from 1,166 to 1,417. The number of non-combatants among them remains in sharp dispute, running from 300 (Israel’s estimate) to nearly 1,000 (Hamas’). An estimated 4,000 Palestinian homes were destroyed. Thirteen Israelis were killed during the conflict.

Israel cited the council’s one-sided condemnation of it in the council’s resolution commissioning the report and refused to cooperate with the investigation. It blocked Goldstone from entering Israel to pursue his probe, though Goldstone had secured the backing of the council’s president to expand his mandate to scrutinize Hamas, as well. The Goldstone Commission was thus unable to examine Israeli homes hit by the rockets. And it could not interview Israelis injured by them, but for a few who traveled to Geneva at the Human Rights Council’s expense to testify.

Although the report raised serious accusations against Hamas, the Palestinian faction ruling Gaza, Israel and its supporters condemned it as anti-Israel, citing its lengthier and more detailed accounts of alleged Israeli human rights violations and its use of the terms “war crimes” and “possible crimes against humanity” to describe Israeli actions. Jerusalem was especially worried about the report’s recommendation to refer the issue to the International Criminal Court if Israel refused to launch an independent investigation of its own.

The report’s defenders countered that Israel’s complaint was a case of a child murdering his parents and then seeking special consideration as an orphan. The scantier scrutiny of Hamas’s misdeeds was hardly surprising, they argued, given Israel’s decision to deny the investigators access to the scene of Hamas’s crimes, or to its victims.

Israel’s drive to counter the report began moments after Goldstone’s presentation of it. Israeli leaders took to the airways and blasted the report as biased. They also made reference to an earlier document prepared by the Israeli foreign ministry, which counters some of the points made by Goldstone.

On the diplomatic front, Israeli officials in Washington, New York and Jerusalem pressed Israel’s key goal with their American counterparts: to quarantine the report within the confines of the council and ensure that it is not picked up by other international forums. Danny Ayalon, Israel’s deputy foreign minister, was on an official Washington visit and met with Susan Rice, American ambassador to the U.N., and raised the issue with her, as well.

The argument that Israel presented to American officials and to diplomats from Russia and key European countries was designed to appeal to their own self-interest. The Goldstone report, Israeli officials asserted, carries a hidden danger for all countries participating in international military campaigns against terrorism. Supporters of Israel pointed out that the United States military, for one, had killed many civilians during its military campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan.

“This is a report that should worry every country fighting terror,” said Jonathan Peled, spokesman of the Israeli Embassy in Washington. “We need to make sure this report does not endanger the U.S. and other countries.”

Ayalon urged American Jewish leaders to take on the report. Most major Jewish groups issued statements condemning Goldstone’s findings and calling on the international community to look at the Israeli military’s inquiry into its Gaza operation. The American Israel Public Affairs Committee called the report “deeply flawed” and said that Goldstone’s investigation was rigged.

Key supporters of Israel in Congress also lashed out at the council. New York Democrat Gary Ackerman, chair of the House Subcommittee on the Middle East and South Asia, fumed that the report’s authors lived in a “self-righteous fantasyland.”

Some Israeli officials went after Goldstone. Israeli Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz denounced him as an “anti-Semite.”

“Just as a non-Jew can be anti-Semitic, a Jew can also be anti-Semitic and discriminate against our people and despise and hate our people,” he told the New York paper The Jewish Week.

Goldstone has a long history of support for Israel that includes his current service on the Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s board of governors.

But despite mounting pressure from Israel and its supporters in the United States, the administration took its time in making a clear statement on the report. A State Department spokesman initially said that because of the report’s length, he had no immediate comment.

This made some pro-Israel activists edgy. Abraham Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League, said two days after the release of the findings that he was “shocked and distressed” that the United States had yet to come out unequivocally against the report.

But by September 18, three days after their release, the State Department was ready to declare Goldstone’s findings unfair toward Israel — citing the lack of equal scrutiny stressed by others. Notably, State Department spokesman Ian Kelly did not challenge any of the report’s specific findings of human rights violations by Israel or Hamas. “While the report makes overly sweeping conclusions of fact and law with respect to Israel, its conclusions regarding Hamas’s deplorable conduct and its failure to comply with international humanitarian law during the conflict are more general and tentative,” he said.

Kelly also made clear that the United States believes the only venue for discussing Goldstone’s report is only within the council. The administration has “very serious concerns” about the attempts to take up the issue at other international bodies, he said.

Goldstone’s report was published just as the United States began its term as a member of the Human Rights Council. Administration officials said the Goldstone report demonstrated the need for the United States to sit on the council and make sure Israel is treated fairly.

While condemnation in the council is unavoidable, after their consultations with the Americans, Israeli officials were confident that the United States would easily prevent the issue from being raised at the Security Council, even without using its veto power.

Still, Jewish groups and pro-Israel activists stressed that it remained important to fight the Goldstone report in the public arena to ensure that its findings are not adopted as world public opinion.(note this is where we bloggers come into this fight to keep the truth out there and being discussed!!)

That fear could only be reinforced by the assessment of international law expert Richard Falk, a Princeton University professor, strong critic of Israel and earlier UN appointee charged with investigating allegations of Israeli war crimes.

Falk cited the report’s likely impact on “the symbols of legitimacy, what I have called the legitimacy war” between Israel and the Palestinians.

“Increasingly,” he wrote on the website Mideast Online, “The Palestinians have been winning this second non-military war.”

Falk predicted the report would mean gains for the international movement to boycott Israel and fray Israel’s Jewish support, as well. “The weight of the report will be felt by world public opinion,” he predicted.
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WE WERE SCREWED~REFUND PLEASE?

I wish some enterprising Democrat who voted for the Bush incarnate, would put up a site encouraging all those who donated money to his campaign and voted for "change", to petition the DNC and ask for their money back, as they have been lied to.

Just what are they teaching at Harvard Law these days one wonders? Respect for International Law? Respect for the Geneva Convention? It took Obama two days to come out in support of his master, Israel, in order to condemn the the use of International Law and the Geneva Convention with regards to the War Crimes report by Goldstone and his UN team. And this from a man who studied at Harvard Law? How's that for change you can believe in? Feeling used yet? No? Well, we aim to please so perhaps you should be aware of this report out today in which America's masters are now asking for more help to circumvent and destroy the Geneva Convention and International Law. See here:

Israel on Wednesday asked a number of senior members of the Obama administration to assist in curbing the international fallout from the Goldstone Commission report released this week, which accuses Israel of committing war crimes in Gaza during Operation Cast Lead.

The Foreign Ministry decided Wednesday to focus their efforts to combat the report's accusations on the United States, Russia and a few other members of the United Nations Security Council and the Human Rights Council that are involved in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

I need to point out to people that Obama just made a dirty deal with Russia on the Missile System, this is Putin's pay off for his vote on the Security Council mentioned above and also on any votes regarding Iran. So, how's that for Change you can believe in? And you actually thought Bush left the Whitehouse? Silly you, Oh but there is more:

The Israeli message is that the Goldstone report threatens those countries because it makes the war on terror very difficult,

Sounds like Bush in his so called "War on Terror." An attempt to make people support Israel going outside the realms of International law and the Geneva convention, in other words, it's like the CIA and torture, we can do what we want, we act with impunity and you will support us. Wait, that sounds familiar? We've heard this before, why just yesterday in fact:

Seven former directors of the Central Intelligence Agency asked President Obama on Friday to shut down the new Justice Department inquiry into past abuses during interrogations of terrorism suspects, arguing that it “will seriously damage” the nation’s ability to protect itself. link

Now any American who voted for Obama on his promise to close Guantanamo Bay, reign in the rogue out of control CIA, end the Bush/Cheney oil wars and extend a hand of friendship to the world by using diplomacy, has got to be able to see through this Obama charade by now. But Israel wants even more from their slave Obama:

and therefore efforts must be made to prevent it (Goldstone Report) from being brought before the International Criminal Court in The Hague. source

It is no longer enough for slave Obama to speak out in support of his masters, he now must use all of Americas powers in an illegal way, by doing dirty deals with Russia for votes in the Security Council against Iran and other nefarious situations that help Israel subvert International Law and the Geneva Convention. So effectively the Geneva Convention and International Law will mean nothing from that day forward. I sincerely hope that the US has no problems with other countries who may wish to follow Israel's lead by also choosing to ignore the Law and the Convention. It must be the Law for all, or the Law for none.