Red Cross Condemns Israel

Nabuchodonosor · May 18, 2007

Once again, an impartial international body has condemned Israel for its gross violation of human rights, but as usual the United States supports Israel and its illegal and brutal occupation (and theft). The NY Times reports that a Red Cross study and report has shown that Israel not only has cruelly occuppied the West Bank for 40 years, violating many UN resolutions, including one America originally supported, but has continued to steal the lands, businesses, and homes of the hapless Palestinians who suffer there. In the Gulf War, we went to war against Iraq for invading and occuppying Kuwait, but how does the Zionist-influenced U.S. Government react to a brutal 35 year Israeli occuppation of the West Bank? Answer: it sends Israel more of our hard-earned American taxpayerâs money! Is it no wonder that people around the world are coming to despise America, but when are the American people going to wake up to the damage these Jewish extremists are doing to America?

JERUSALEM, May 14 â The International Committee of the Red Cross, in a confidential report about East Jerusalem and its surrounding areas, accuses Israel of a âgeneral disregardâ for âits obligations under international humanitarian law â and the law of occupation in particular.â

The committee, which does not accept Israelâs annexation of East Jerusalem, says Israel is using its rights as an occupying power under international law âin order to further its own interests or those of its own population to the detriment of the population of the occupied territory.â

With the construction of the separation barrier, the establishment of an outer ring of Jewish settlements beyond the expanded municipal boundaries and the creation of a dense road network linking the different Israeli neighborhoods and settlements in and outside Jerusalem, the report says, Israel is âreshaping the development of the Jerusalem metropolitan areaâ with âfar-reaching humanitarian consequences.â Those include the increasing isolation of Palestinians living in Jerusalem from the rest of the West Bank and the increasing difficulty for some Palestinians to easily reach Jerusalemâs schools and hospitals.

The Red Cross committee, which is recognized as a guardian of humanitarian law under the Geneva Conventions of 1949, does not publish its reports but provides them in confidence to the parties involved and to a small number of countries. This report was provided to The New York Times by someone outside the organization who wanted the reportâs conclusions publicized. The leak came just days before Israelâs celebration of Jerusalem Day this Wednesday, observing the 40th anniversary of the unification of the city.

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nutmeg · May 18, 2007

Lee Iacoca has a new book, "Where Have all the Leaders Gone" the book contains this quote and a common lament:

"My friends tell me to calm down. They say, "Lee, you're eighty-two years old. Leave the rage to the young people." I'd love toâas soon as I can pry them away from their iPods for five seconds and get them to pay attention."

From a personal stand point I have experienced this also younger generation, I tell them, wake the hell up your almost 18, old enough to vote.

I'm begining to draw a conclusion, that it may not be a bad thing for kids not to be reading the paper and paying attention.

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Red Cross Condemns Israel

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