Khalid Amayreh – A Criminal State that MUST be Isolated. Reading the Goldstone Report
By Khalid Amayreh • Sep 19th, 2009 at 7:57 • Category: Documents, Features, Israel, Newswire, Our Authors, Palestine, Resistance, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, War, Zionism
(art by Carlos Latuff) Israel is unusually furious over the publication this week of the Goldstone commission report which accuses the apartheid regime of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Gaza Strip during the bloody blitz against the coastal Palestinian territory nearly nine months ago.
Israeli officials and hasbara doctors have been railing against Goldstone, who is both Jewish and Zionist, to the extent of accusing him of “anti-Semitism,” an increasingly stale and ineffective weapon which Israel resorts to when all other propaganda tools don’t work.
Benyamin Netanyahu, the extremist Prime Minister of the Zionist regime has even asked US Special Envoy to the Middle East George Mitchell to assist Israel, especially at the American arena, in order to curb the fallout from the report.
Meanwhile, Israel is embarking on a frantic propaganda campaign to discredit the report. In the past, Israel succeeded in endearing itself to western public opinion by enlisting the often Jewish-controlled media which effectively helped disseminate the Zionist narrative. In so doing, that media often turned the black into white, and the big lie into a “virtual truth” glorified by millions of gullible westerners who wouldn’t overburden themselves with the task of finding out the “real truth.”
Now, Israel is facing an uphill task doing the same job successfully.
First of all, Goldstone has, by and large, done a professional job. His report is nearly completely devoid of rhetorical overindulgence and presents facts and as facts without any overly tendentious interpretation.
Hence, the anti-Semitic insinuations made by Israeli hasbara officials should be treated as no more than cheap diversionary tactics aimed at evading the facts. In fact, Goldstone’s own daughter has been quoted by the Israeli press as saying that had her father not been at the helm of the investigating commission, Israel would have been condemned much more harshly.
Second, nearly all credible human rights commissions, including Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and even Israel’s own B’tselem had more or less reached the same conclusions about the December-January blitz, namely that Israel knowingly and deliberately targeted innocent civilians.
More to the point, numerous Israeli soldiers who participated in the virtually genocidal onslaught on the nearly completely unprotected enclave have testified that they had been instructed to shoot and kill innocent civilians, including people carrying white flags.
As an observer of Israeli behavior for many years, I have no doubt that Israeli leaders realize that they did commit war crimes and crimes against humanity. After all, many Israeli military and political officials are bona fide war criminals who would be thrown immediately behind bars in any country with even minimal adherence to the rules of justice and norms of civility and human decency.
However, these war criminals think, at least privately, that Jews shouldn’t be subject to the same rules of war that apply to other nations. Hence, they don’t view the deliberate collective murder of innocent civilians as “wrong.”
Indeed, a few days ago, an Israeli cabinet minister urged the international community to grant Israel special treatment concerning the conduct of war, presumably one that would allow the Israeli occupation army and paramilitary Jewish terrorists to murder with impunity.
I strongly believe that the international community must adopt a stringent and morally uncompromising stand against Israel. In the final analysis, war crimes and crimes against humanity can’t be treated as diabolic in places like Nazi Germany and the former Yugoslavia while ignored or dismissed as “controversial” when Israel is involved.
This is why, the Goldstone Commission report’s recommendations ought to be presented to the International Court of Justice in The Hague as soon as possible.
Moreover, civilized nations around the world ought to act on this serious issue of Israeli criminality by treating Israel as a pariah state at least until justice is done and measures are taken to prevent the recurrence of the Nazi-like onslaught.
It is true that Israel is not the former South Africa apartheid regime which was successfully forced to end the apartheid system. However, there is much that can be done to prevent the criminal entity from mocking international law and the basic human rights, including the right to life, of the Palestinian people.
One way of doing this is to compile a comprehensive list of all Israeli war criminals, from private soldiers up to the Minister of Defense, who were involved in the Gaza atrocities.
These suspected war criminals must be arrested upon their arrival in any country. And if there is compelling evidence indicting them, they should be shipped like drugged wild animals to The Hague to face their crimes before an international tribunal. We simply owe it to the unwept victims to pursue their killers and narrow their horizons as much as possible until they are caught and made to pay for their crimes.
The Goldstone report recommended that Israel immediately start a serious investigation into the Gaza war crime. However, it is amply clear that this recommendation carries with it a great deal of naivety, if not hypocrisy. Indeed, one doesn’t have to be an expert on Israel to realize that the Israeli justice system is a virtual rubber stamp in the hands of the military-political establishment.
Besides, it would be foolhardy to expect Israel, a state that has been murdering Palestinians, destroying their homes and stealing their land from time immemorial, to suddenly grant them justice and morph into a decent state where justice is pursued regardless of the identity of the victim and victimizer.
To be honest, Israel is an irremediable case of oppression and criminality, a state so sick and criminal-minded that it is pointless to appeal to any sense of justice that its military and political leaders might be thought to have.
Two more points I would like to make in this regard. First, it is extremely imperative to hold Israel accountable for these crimes. Because otherwise, if the world allows Israel to get away with impunity, the December-January blitz would look very much like an innocuous child play compared with the next genocidal war.
Hence, the world must never ever allow this despicable entity to desensitize whatever semblance of morality the international community still has. More to the point, this issue acquires a special significance because it is no secret that the Palestinians rely for their very physical survival on the goodwill and moral power of the peoples of the world. Hence, the world’s moral conscience must not be allowed to go into even a brief slumber lest the unthinkable happens.
The second point is the totally inadequate manner in which the Palestinian Authority has treated this issue. Indeed, as an entity that claims to represent the Palestinian people, the PA should have spearheaded efforts to expose, incriminate and criminalize Israel.
However, the fact that the PA has only contented itself with a few laconic statements about Israeli responsibility for the war crimes in Gaza underscores the moral and political bankruptcy of the PA regime.
Well, how can the Palestinian people really expect these flamboyant “leaders” who dread calling Israel by its real name to be able to liberate Jerusalem and enable the repatriation of the refugees to their ancestral homeland?
Khalid Amayreh is a journalist based in the Occupied Palestinian town of Dura.
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Violence is the biggest problem in itself and can never solve any problem. While Palestine has been transformed as 'Problem' for the last sixty or so years. The only answer is is one state solution – Restore Palestine before 1930 status – dismentle Israel sate framework and form a new fully DEMOCRATIC state for all to live in peace. If any one is unhappy t live there, Europe America and Russia should pay for their 'back home' expenses. Because these are the people that started the problem in the first place. Before this ideal state, UNO should declare Zionism a crime!
1) There is some American Law against giving money to a NUCLEAR power that does nOT sign the NPT … THAT needs to be enforced.
2)Israel ‘Deplores’ IAEA Call to Join NPT
US Rejects Vote, Canada Tries to Block Resolution
by Jason Ditz, September 18, 2009
The Israeli government has officially said that it “deplores” the vote by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) member states to call on Israel to join the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and submit their nuclear facilities to the same oversight as the rest of the world does.
The vote narrowly passed, 49-45, and was generally opposed by Western nations while being supported by UN Security Council permanent members Russia and China, as well as most of the nations in the Middle East.
The United States ambassador Glyn Davies publicly rejected the resolution, calling it “redundant” and claiming that calling on Israel to join the NPT as every other nation in the Middle East has unfairly singled them out.
Canada went one step further, trying to block the vote entirely and condemning it as “unbalanced.” Votes on similar resolutions had been successfully blocked in 2007 and 2008, but this year’s attempt at blocking it failed.
The issue of Israel as a nuclear power and a non-signatory of the NPT has been controversial, and when a US State Department official said in May that the US wanted everyone to join the NPT Israel reacted with shock and outrage.
[...] By KHALED AMAYREH, Palestinian think tank [...]
As long as the veto powers (the US, UK, and France) are on Zionist entity's side – no UN report or UNSC resolution can force Zionist entity to sit on negotiating table without pre-conditions. With its powerful lobbying groups in the US, UK, Germany, France and EU – the financial support will keep flowing into Israel – which will keep killing the native Muslim and Christian Palestinians. Being a terrorist entity itself – it understand a military resistance alone. The Zionist regime is already isolated from most of the world with the exception of the western world – which gave birth to the Zionazi state in the first place.
In order to divert world attention from its own barbaric actions – the zionist regime is preparing ground for the US and other ZOG nations to open another war front – this time Islamic Iran.
http://rehmat1.wordpress.com/2009/09/18/are-turks-willing-to-die-for-israel/
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The argument is clearly put and unrefutable. The conclusions follow that:
"I strongly believe that the international community must adopt a stringent and morally uncompromising stand against Israel. In the final analysis, war crimes and crimes against humanity can’t be treated as diabolic in places like Nazi Germany and the former Yugoslavia while ignored or dismissed as “controversial” when Israel is involved."'
However, the dirty hasbara goes unabatted, and every other week now we have films, interviews, reportages, endless references, photographs, declarations, all on main stream English media RE: the Nazi Genocide of the Jewish people.
Last week we had the 27th anniversary of the Sabra and Shatila massacres, but not a single reference to the crime came out on said media. Yesterday eve. though, I watched another Documentary on the BBC about tracking down these eldery people suspected of having collaborate with the Nazi regimem. It was telling to see how the translation subtitles would stop at certain points and the voices of those people would be ran over by the commentaries of the English film director.
There is no longer an amerika, a colombia, a n israel, et al and, thus no longer any amerikans, colombians, or israelis.
There is no longer nationalism, imperialism, nor domestic or int'l laws; there is now only planetarianism.
And the world plutos are united like never before to obtain all of it or as much as is possible.
Thus, their servants such as barak, ohlmert, bush, obama, et al most likely wld not face any court.
Enlightenment of the gradated nonruling classes or lower classes may occlude the probability that recent criminals wld not be punished for their crimes.
Thus, i suggest all educators shld unite like never before to bring an elucidation to the lower classes and on which a better life can be built for all earthlings.
We need to unite in the quest to institutionalize the right to be informed. Presently, we are mostly disinformed and deformed by corporate world or ab. 003% to 2% of the people!
Once we obtain the right to be informed and enact laws that wld punish liars {lying shld be criminalized} we can built a better life just on this alone for all people. tnx
I understand what you are saying. From a peaceful resident of a country I would expect nothing else. I also however, wondered what I would do if someone threw a Molotov Cocktail into my house through a window. How would anyone react to it if members of their family were attacked in their home. If I knew what direction the missile came from I would go after the culprits. Unfortunately when we are dealing with countries it is almost impossible to find those responsible without hurting or killing innocent others. It would be hard not to blame those who may have witnessed the event and did nothing. If the attacks continued to happen and nothing was done then I would either have to become ruthless and go after the people I felt may have been involved or continue to let the missiles fall until my house was destroyed. I would hope that there would be none fighting on my side with a blood-lust. if I found out that there were I would expect them to be held accountable and prosecuted.
The longer this the continues the more casualties there are and thus the more recruits for both extremes. It is pointless to fight with each other, and it is a never ending cycle that appears to be the standard! I feel horrible for all of those involved who would like to see a working resolution. The blame as always is in the hands of few while many suffer.
The History Man
http://wwwhistoryman.blogspot.com/
Re: Israel, the fish bone in the throat of the Palestinians.
I remember all the 'fuss' the Jews made over their Warsaw Ghetto experiences (among the many) after WW II. Forever shaking their 'tin cups' to raise money for the eternal victims (have you ever seen a Jew raise money for anyone except another Jew you don't have to answer that one, LOL!) because of the terrible suffering the Jews had endured at this Nazi ghetto in the hands of the animalistic German's.
Today, it's the 'animalistic' ZioNazi Jews that we see after having created a 'Warsaw Ghetto' of their own in Gaza and putting the Palestinian people through unbelievable miseries for the benefit of no one except their racist egos.
Today, Israel has control over 100% of Palestine – controls 89% of the land allotted for a Palestinian state is under the control of the ZioNazi's and 94% of the aquifer resources are also in the hands of the arrogant incorrigibles. Illegal settlements use some 65%/75% of the water available for all to use. While the average Palestinian must 'make do' with an average of 150 liters of water per day the settler vipers average 1,200 to 1,500 liters a day. Many settlements have large olympic sized community swimming pool while the Palestinians must decide each day if they are going to cook, bath, wash, irrigate their vegetable garden or olive/fruit trees and/or vineyards (if they haven't already been destroyed by the viper Settlers with their chain saws).
The good thing is that the world has had enough of these miserable rats. Since the Jewish massacres in Gaza last winter many countries have become involved in Boycotting and Divesting from Jewish companies on the West Bank that contribute to the Palestinian people's misery.
At York University (Ontario, Canada) the Palestinian students have had several anti-Israel days celebrations making an issue of Israel's abuse of the Palestinians. While the Jewish demons, with the powerful and deep pocket books have worked to 'rein in the Palestinian rallies' they have not been able to halt them. Last week the university advised the Jews that classes would not be rescheduled to coincide with the Holy High dayz, the Jews celebrate and the Jews went ballistic – to no avail.
Yassar folks, the Jews are on the run – worldwide. And the important thing is to 'keep them on the run' by conceeding nothing – absolutely nada, to these corrosive bible demons.
Be strong Palestine. Judge Goldstone of the UN with his powerful report on Jewish genocide and war crimes, the UN Commission on Human Rights reports and the people of the world (thanks Ireland and Norway) are coming together like some giant anti-Israel tsunami and the 'Best is yet to come!'
TheAZCowBoy
Tombstone, AZ.
The AZCowboy: Your views are factual and admireable. Please correct me if it is wrong to say that "Adolph Hitler" is historically presented as the most infamous and malicious person. Is it just because the man had no chance to defend his record of service to zionism.
Perhaps, at a later stage our generation would learn to put 2 plus 2 and make 4. As much as they would find out what part that abhorrent Hitler had played in the occupation of Palestine and somehow calling it Isreal. Until that day many zionists would have sleepless nights becaus of their GUILT and many zionistswho are already dead would have extra fire-heat in their graves.
May Allah soon grant full and final control of Palestine to her inhabitant Muslims and all those native Jews and Christians who lived in Palestine before the 1920 zionist plague. It is not all that difficult to eradicate the germs of Plague, it only needs concerted efforts to remove 'falsehood' regardless how harmful that may well be.