'FLOTILLA' ISRAEL attacks aid ship headed for Palestine - [Update: Israel rejects UN multinational i

[biomat]

Dear Weber
What you have to say about it.. I know u will make something to legalise this killing also..
Rachel Corriewas killed by an Israeli army bulldozer in Gaza on 16 March, 2003, as she tried to stop it demolishing a Palestinian home.

The family of the US activist blames the Israeli military for her death and is forcing the country to defend itselfin court.
Tom Hurndall was a 21-year-old photojournalism student who travelled to the Gaza Strip as part of the International Solidarity Movement.

He was shot in the head in April 2003 by an Israeli army sniper while trying to rescue Palestinian children in the street.

He never regained consciousness and died nine months later in a London hospital.
British cameraman James Miller,34, was shot dead by another soldier from the same Israeli unit just a mile away three weeks later.
He was in Rafah while making a documentary for a US cable channel.

An autopsy confirmed he was almost certainly killed by an Israeli soldier, despite the army's assertions to the contrary.

Video evidence clearly showed Miller and his team carrying white flags and shouting to Israeli soldiers that they were British journalists.

Tristan Anderson,38, had three brain operations after being shot in the head with a high-velocity tear gas canister by Israeli security forces on 13 March 2009.

Anderson, who survived with major brain damage, was in the West Bank village of Nilin, protesting with Palestinian farmers against the construction of Israel's "separation wall".

 

[biomat]

American hit in anti-Israeli protest loses eye

Tue Jun 1, 6:56 pm ET

JERUSALEM – An American woman has lost her eye during a demonstration in Jerusalem against Israel's naval raid on a Gaza aid flotilla, a hospital official said Tuesday.
Emily Henochowicz, 21, of Maryland, underwent surgery after suffering the injury, said hospital spokeswoman Yael Bossem-Levy.
Henochowicz was hit in the face by a tear gas canister shot by an Israeli border policeman, said witness Jonathan Pollak.
He said Palestinian youths were hurling rocks, but Henochowicz didn't participate in any violence and was standing at a distance.
Mark Toner, a State Department spokesman, said, "We can confirm that a U.S. citizen, Emily Henochowicz, suffered a serious injury when a gas canister hit her in the face, as she was standing among other protesters in the West Bank at the Qalandiya checkpoint between the West Bank and Israel."
There was no immediate military comment.
In a Facebook message to The Associated Press, Sarah Henochowicz said the family would have no comment about her sister, calling it "a private matter."
On her Facebook page, Emily Henochowicz's current city is listed as Ramallah, West Bank, and her latest posting on Monday read: "Gaza on my Mind." Her page says she is a student at Cooper Union, a college in New York, and Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design.
On another page, a posting said: "A message from Emily's sister Sarah Henochowicz: This is to notify everyone concerned about my sister Emily. The surgery was successful and she is currently recuperating in Hadassah Hospital. Thank you for your kind words and support, my family and I greatly appreciate it. Her father is by her side and will bring her ... home as soon as she is able to travel.'"
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Associated Press writer Nafeesa Syeed in Washington contributed to this report.

 

[biomat]

 

[biomat]

http://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2010/05/the_legal_posit.html

May 31, 2010

The Legal Position on the Israeli Attack

I think that anybody with any fairness is bound to admit that the statement William Hague came out with is much better than anything on Israel which New Labour ever came out with, especially this bit:

"This news underlines the need to lift the restrictions on access to Gaza, in line with UNSCR 1860. The closure is unacceptable and counter-productive. There can be no better response from the international community to this tragedy than to achieve urgently a durable resolution to the Gaza crisis. I call on the Government of Israel to open the crossings to allow unfettered access for aid to Gaza, and address the serious concerns about the deterioration in the humanitarian and economic situation and about the effect on a generation of young Palestinians
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http://www.fco.gov.uk/en/news/latest-news/?view=News&id=22300485 But as I told this afternoon's tremendous spontaneous demonstration on Whitehall, fine words are not enough and we must now see the kind of sanctions regime we saw against apartheid South Africa.
A word on the legal position, which is very plain. To attack a foreign flagged vessel in international waters is illegal. It is not piracy, as the Israeli vessels carried a military commission. It is rather an act of illegal warfare.
Because the incident took place on the high seas does not mean however that international law is the only applicable law. The Law of the Sea is quite plain that, when an incident takes place
on a ship on the high seas (outside anybody's territorial waters) the applicable law is that of the flag state of the ship on which the incident occurred. In legal terms, the Turkish ship was Turkish territory.
There are therefore two clear legal possibilities.
Possibility one is that the Israeli commandos were acting on behalf of the government of Israel in killing the activists on the ships. In that case Israel is in a position of war with Turkey, and the act falls under international jurisdiction as a war crime.
Possibility two is that, if the killings were not authorised Israeli military action, they were acts of murder under Turkish jurisdiction. If Israel does not consider itself in a position of war with Turkey, then it must hand over the commandos involved for trial in Turkey under Turkish law.
In brief, if Israel and Turkey are not at war, then it is Turkish law which is applicable to what happened on the ship. It is for Turkey, not Israel, to carry out any inquiry or investigation into events and to initiate any prosecutions. Israel is obliged to hand over indicted personnel for prosecution.



Posted by craig on May 31, 2010 5:30 PM in the category Palestine

 

[scary]

US calls for impartial investigation into Israel assualt on Gaza flotilla and said the inquiry could be carried out by Israel. Um...Lol

 

[Adeel]

" Declare Israel a terrorist state? " - Times of India's Shobhan Saxena

This is an article from Shobhan Saxena an Indian, where he makes the case of declaring Israel a terrorist state. Do you agree with him?

A new video released by the Israeli government shows one of the soldiers who took part in yesterday’s bloody attack on the Gaza Freedom flotilla. In this propoganda clip, the Israeli soldier justifies the attack, claiming they were attacked first by the people on the flotilla. “It was a lynch,” says the soldier. “Every guy that came down the ropes was taken aside, and everyone there had metal rods, knives, slingshots, glass bottles.” Since the Israelis can only be victims, and never aggressors, the soldier tries to justify the cold-blooded murder of 10 people armed with “rods, slingshots and bottles.”

Enough is enough. It’s time to declare Israel a terrorist state. That’s what it is. It reacts to slingshots with machine guns. It allows its tanks to fire at stone-throwing kids. It has no qualms about firing rockets on Palestinian hospitals and residential areas. And Israel does all this in the name of fighting terror tactics of Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip. It’s difficult to defend the activities Hamas, but we can’t forget the fact that it was constant humiliation of PLO and leaders like Yasser Arafat and Mehmoud Abbas by Israel that gave birth to groups like Hamas.

And look at the way the world is reacting to this brazen attack on a humanitarian mission. The UN is saying it wants to probe the ‘acts’ which led to this ‘tragedy’. The UN is a spineless organisation, but to look away and talk in an ambiguous language when civil society people are killed in cold blood is a new low even by the UN’s pathetic standards. And the US, which leaves no chance to talk about the "threats of terrorism" and "making the world safe for democracy", is quiet. Why? Imagine, if Iran had done something similar. In that case, President Obama would be busy planning missiles attacks on Tehran. But today, 24 hours after the attack on the Gaza flotilla, the Nobel Peace Prize winner is mum.

In fact, the government of India has shown more character than any western nation by condemning the Israeli attack on the civilian mission. But India can do more than mere condemnation of a barbaric attack. It will be a good idea for New Delhi to put some business and military deals with Israel on hold or cancel them. It’s time for the international community to impose sanctions on Israel, which was accepted into the the global family after it signed peace deals with Arafat in Oslo in 1995. Later Yitzhak Rabin and Arafat made an appearance with Bill Clinton on the White House lawns and it seemed Israel was ready to join the civilised world. But, soon Rabin paid for his peace effort when he fell to an Israeli fanatic’s bullets. And since then the Israeli foreign policy has been in the hands of fanatics like Benjamin Netanyahu, whose world view is pre-medieval.

Israel is a dangerous country. It’s an irresponsible regime. It’s an undeclared nuclear power. It bullies its neighbours. It has been torturing the Palestinians living in West Bank and Gaza for decades. It treats Israeli Arabs as second-class citizens. And Israel has been doing all this because of the backing of the US, UK and other western countries, which always turn a blind eye to Israel's crimes against humanity. And the west backs Israel not because it feels guilty about hundreds of years of crimes against Jews in Europe, but because it uses Israel as a thug against the Middles Eastern nations in order to maintain a crisis situation in the oil and gas-rich region.

It’s because of this attitude, Israel always gets away with murder. After the massacre of Israeli athletes by the Black September in Munich during 1972 Olympics, Israel launched a campaign to hunt down the perpetrators of the Munich attack. Instead of finding the Black September leaders, Israel assassinated the Palestinian movement leadership spread over Europe and Africa and propagated a pure lie that all Munich criminals had been killed. In his brilliant film ‘Munich’, Steven Spielberg exposed this lie and the Zionist fanatics became angry at them. Now, Israel is denying visa to Noam Chomsky, the greatest living American public intellectual, because he has been chronicling Israel's crimes. And both Spielberg and Chomsky are Jew.

The attack on flotilla is actually an attack on Turkey. The recent nuclear deal between Turkey, Brazil and Iran has made Israel nervous. According to the deal, Iran will send its enriched uranium to Turkey for conversion into fuel. If this plan is successful, Israel and the US will have no excuse to attack Iran. That's why they have been dismissive of the Tehran deal. And now, the US is keeping quiet and Israel is spreading lies about the Gaza flotilla, which came from Turkey.

It’s time for the international community to stop Israel’s terror games. To begin with, they should declare Israel a terrorist state.

http://blogs.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Main-Street/entry/declare-israel-a-terrorist-state

 

[Adeel]

haha Also check out some of the replies on his blog. Here is the author answering one of the posters. Brilliant!

I feel you dont know anything how Israil was formed and are talking like a sheer stupid without knowing anyting the history. Gaza is a area purely belong to palastine and Israil captured this area. So how come this belongs to israil. When British captured India and Indian freedom fightor fought agaist british such as gandhiji, bhagat sight and others, it is said that this is a freedome fight which is totally correct. And if palastanians are fighting for Gaza, they are terrorist, this is the termonalogy. You guys have no info as to how israil captured palastian, syrain, lebanon lands during 1947. Its shame on us that the world is run by israil and americans. when an ******* BUSH goes and attached Iraq, it is said that FIGHT AGAINST TERRORISM but in reality it was an INVADE to another country and capture it. Whne the people of Iraq or Afganistan or Palastine fight for the freedome of their land, it is said they are terrorist. How come you invade and it is justified and one fight for their homeland are called terrorist. Its all termonology game. Who gave rights to these countries to capture others country. Well its endless discussion. One must understand the reality before making any comment. If Gandhiji and other were freedome fightors then the palastinese, iraquis and afganis are also freedome fightor and not terrorist.

 

[barhaich]

Good Post!

 

[mark.weber]

1. Israeli soldiers should be praised for showing restrain and not shooting people at random, they have every right to defend themselves.

2. Israel is a democracy. Rule of law exists in Israel.

3. The Turkish Islamic "Charity" has clear links with Al-Qaeda, yes the same al-Qaeda which is responsible for suicide bombings in Pakistan.

4. In your hatred for Israel, you all are overlooking the evil doings of those people and their affiliations with hardcore terrorists who have killed innocent muslims as well.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100602/ap_on_re_eu/eu_gaza_ships_terror_ties

 

[Adeel]

1. Israeli soldiers should be praised for showing restrain and not shooting people at random, they have every right to defend themselves.

2. Israel is a democracy. Rule of law exists in Israel.

3. The Turkish Islamic "Charity" has clear links with Al-Qaeda, yes the same al-Qaeda which is responsible for suicide bombings in Pakistan.

4. In your hatred for Israel, you all are overlooking the evil doings of those people and their affiliations with hardcore terrorists who have killed innocent muslims as well.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100602/ap_on_re_eu/eu_gaza_ships_terror_ties

Oye contra tu ney baaz nahi aana. Stop making senseless idiotic posts. They only make sense to your evil mind. Kuch seekh apney fellow indian se

 

[noman3000]

No doubt. Israel is a head quarter of terrorists. Also India & America should be declared terrorist states too.

 

[Saladin A]

Zionist Israel is not only the most barbaric terrorist state but also an evil one that kills innocent Arabs with total impunity and with ruthless cruelty.

The unfortunate thing is that the Muslim world is ruled by Western-Zionist boot-lickers, toe-suckers and shoe-shining boys who bend over their backsides on their masters’ commands and let Israel treat innocent Palestinians as insects and worms to kill them as and when it pleases.

 

[Saladin A]

Zionist Israel is not only the most barbaric terrorist state but also an evil one that kills innocent Arabs with total impunity and with ruthless cruelty.

The unfortunate thing is that the Muslim world is ruled by Western-Zionist boot-lickers, toe-suckers and shoe-shining boys who bend over their backsides on their masters commands and let Israel treat innocent Palestinians as insects and worms to kill them as and when it pleases.

 

[greywolf]

Even Jews have people like Naom Chomsky and Rabbi Weiss ... so it is no wonder that there are Sunil Duttas, Shobhan Saxenas and others like them in india. There are always good people in every society who don't hesitate calling a spade a spade. Just to clear any misconception, at the present time, most of the governments have hijacked their population, their mandate and their public's sentiments and impending unpopular decisions.

God Almighty moves His pawns in mysterious ways, He can turn Vikram Bhattacharya into Waqar ul Malik or Ajay Acharya into Ahmed Acharya and bestow them with His grace to serve His religion and be its ardent advocates ... the long and short of it, truth speaks for itself. Even opponents' camps have to realize it. And why not ? What has india gained from its supporters i.e., USSR and Israel ? Only except that USSR sold some duds to india and refused to take responsibility for their failure OR Israel sold some planes and other weapons which were sold on the basis of service and no technology was given to india nor any right to reproduce those weapons.

India is a big country, of multiple ethnicities, multiple races and religions. From Brahmins to Dalits and from Maoists to Deccan Mujahideen and from hindus to Muslims ... make india of the size it is now and thats what these anti-monotheists wanna exploit. If india was to be hindu-ized I am sure it would be useless for their designs because it will then be reduced to a dictrict of Kolkatta or even smaller. 85% indians don't want war with Pakistan yet the animosity, I will say it is engineered.

A certain school of thought in Vatican and all the rest of the christian world is fast realizing the take over neo-cons have established. World is fast segregating into two prominent opponents ... right and wrong, evil and pious, left and right, black and white.

 

[shaheedchoudry]

Okay declared. Now.......

 

[masadi1980]

***Gaza aid flotilla activists expected home***

British activists held by Israel following the storming of an aid flotilla heading for the Gaza Strip
Thirty-seven British nationals were among almost 700 pro-Palestinian activists detained by the Israelis after commandos intercepted the ships in the Mediterranean on Monday.
The Israelis last night began deporting the remaining protesters after some - including five of the Britons - had been released from Be'er Sheva prison after agreeing to leave the country voluntarily.
In the House of Commons yesterday, David Cameron condemned the Israeli action - which left nine activists dead - as "completely unacceptable" and called for the lifting of the three-year blockade of Gaza.
were expected to start arriving home today. Foreign Secretary William Hague there was "real, understandable and justified anger" at what had happened and he condemned the treatment of the British activists as "completely unsatisfactory".
He said he was "seriously concerned" that they were detained while the boats were in international waters and that, two days after the seizures, nine of the activists had still not had access to British consular staff.
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu last night brushed off the widespread international criticism, claiming his country was facing "an attack of international hypocrisy".
He said it was essential for Israel to maintain its blockade of Gaza to prevent more missiles reaching the Hamas-controlled territory.
"If the blockade had been broken, it would have been followed by dozens, hundreds of boats. Each boat could carry dozens of missiles," he said.
It is thought that the main British contingent was leaving Israel on flights laid on by the government in Turkey - from where many of the activists, including, it is thought, most of the dead, came.
It is expected that they will make their way back to the UK on flights from Istanbul later today.


http://www.thisislondon.co.uk

 

[capre786]

very happy 2 know the Indian views about so called state of Israel and thanks them who favor the innocent Arb Muslims .There is no limit of barbarism of Israeli dogs toward innocent Palestinian and we are astonished how the so called human organization and ruler of US become silent on this issue.

 

[Nice2MU]

1. Israeli soldiers should be praised for showing restrain and not shooting people at random, they have every right to defend themselves.

2. Israel is a democracy. Rule of law exists in Israel.

3. The Turkish Islamic "Charity" has clear links with Al-Qaeda, yes the same al-Qaeda which is responsible for suicide bombings in Pakistan.

4. In your hatred for Israel, you all are overlooking the evil doings of those people and their affiliations with hardcore terrorists who have killed innocent muslims as well.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100602/ap_on_re_eu/eu_gaza_ships_terror_ties

I am not the supporter of Al-Qaida or any other organisation but I don't think it is true. Israel has killed many people than Al-Qaida or other terrorist organisation. So who is the terrorist? ISREAL is bigger Terrorist than Any terrorist organisation and should be declare them as Terrorist Country.

.............and who knows who is doing terrorist attacks in Pakistan? It is very confused phenomemon.

Bani-Israel is as such a nation that they had been Teasing and killing Prophets (according to Quran), then how would they stop killing common peoples? The reaction of World towards the barbarism of Israel is a sign to say a big STOP and ban Israil the killing of innocent Arabs.

Muslims should also come farward to help the Arabs to fight with Israel.

>>>>>>>>Kaash Phelastine ,Pakistan kay border par huta

 

[aqeel813]

Israel aur al-qaeda ko smjnay k liay pakistani police aur choron ki misal kafi ha. Matlab aik uniform mein terrorist, aur dosray uniform k baghair.

 

[masadi1980]

Very Very good post. Thanks for sharing.