
UNITED NATIONS - Arab U.N. delegates circulated a draft resolution on Monday that would require Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to bring a U.N. report alleging war crimes in the Gaza Strip before the Security Council.
Resolutions of the General Assembly, unlike those of the Security Council, are nonbinding. But U.N. diplomats say such a resolution would intensify pressure on Israel to launch a full investigation into the actions of its army during the war.
The Goldstone report lambasted both sides in the war, which killed up to 1,387 Palestinians and 13 Israelis, but was harsher towards Israel. It gave Israel and Palestinian Hamas militants six months to mount credible investigations or face possible prosecution in The Hague.
At the same time the world is moving to enforce the international laws, Nuremberg laws against aggression, war crimes, put into place by the U.S., after World War II, the U.S Empire and Zionist Israel, with its criminal Nato states are rejecting their own international laws for duplicity, exciptionalism, corrupt class laws, that pollutes most of the world, as deformed class pathologies, imperial pathologies, on civil society as a whole.
The Western World, including Zionism, is turning their back on universal jusrisdiction used by both America and Zionist Israel to go after fascists, Nazi war criminals, because as class states, imperial states, duplicitous inherently, the ruling classes, imperial alliances, often set up corrupt class hierarchies within the U.N. , like the Security Council that violates its own U.N. Charter, to promote Western imperial thuggery.
So while the General Assembly, less duplicitous, less hierarchical, and corrupted by Western, former colonial states, enforce the RULE OF LAW against war crimes...The U.S fascists, nationalists, Zionist ideologues, Neocons, all come together to pass a corrupt resolution to condemn the GOLDSTONE report on war crimes by Israel, where Obama, Hillary, and all the Zionist liberal warmongers come together to support and cheerlead the war crimes of Zionist Israel, in the same way Obama and Eric Holder have refused to enforce the RULE OF LAW in the U.S. against Bush criminals:
Congress Should Not Reject the Goldstone Report
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/47449
excerpt:
On Tuesday, November 3, Congress is poised to vote on H.Res.867, which calls on the “President and the Secretary of State to oppose unequivocally any endorsement or further consideration of the `Report of the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict' in multilateral fora.’ ”
The Resolution instructs the Obama Administration to prevent further consideration of the Goldstone Report (as it is informally known) in any international body. For Congress to do so, without a hearing where Judge Goldstone can testify and based upon a Resolution rife with factual errors, makes a mockery of assertions by the United States that fundamental protections of human rights laws law apply equally to all. It leaves the United States, and especially Congress, without a thread of moral authority.
This Resolution is a rush to judgment. It is a rush to judgment made on the basis of serious factual errors and mischaracterizations of the Goldstone Report. The Goldstone Report documents in a dispassionate and even-handed manner “violations of international human rights and humanitarian law and possible war crimes and crimes against humanity” committed by all parties prior to, during, and after Israel’s assault on the occupied Gaza Strip in December 2008-January 2009.
The text of the Resolution is directly at odds with the actual mandate of the Fact-Finding Mission and its report. The Resolution asserts that the mandate of the Fact Finding Mission was aimed only at Israeli violations of the laws of war. This is a blatant lie.
Washington, D.C. | November 2, 2009 | The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) urges you to contact your US House of Representative and ask them to OPPOSE H.RES 867 introduced by Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL). Currently, this resolution has 114 cosponsors out of 435 Members of the US Congress. H. RES. 867 calls on the President and the Secretary of State to unequivocally oppose any endorsement of the Report of the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict.
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Action for US citizens:
Even Israeli peace activists, clearly see the criminal collusion of liberal warmongers and Zionists by Obama and Hillary, in Israel.....and say:
America, Stop Sucking up to Israel
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/11/01-1
excerpt:
"Barack Obama has been busy - offering the Jewish People blessings for Rosh Hashanah, and recording a flattering video for the President's Conference in Jerusalem and another for Yitzhak Rabin's memorial rally. Only Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah surpasses him in terms of sheer output of recorded remarks.
In all the videos, Obama heaps sticky-sweet praise on Israel, even though he has spent nearly a year fruitlessly lobbying for Israel to be so kind as to do something, anything - even just a temporary freeze on settlement building - to advance the peace process.
The president's Mideast envoy, George Mitchell, has also been busy, shuttling between a funeral (for IDF soldier Asaf Ramon, the son of Israel's first astronaut Ilan Ramon) and a memorial (for Rabin, though it was postponed until next week due to rain), in order to find favor with Israelis. Polls have shown that Obama is increasingly unpopular here, with an approval rating of only 6 to 10 percent.
He decided to address Israelis by video, but a persuasive speech won't persuade anyone to end the occupation. He simply should have told the Israeli people the truth. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who arrived here last night, will certainly express similar sentiments: "commitment to Israel's security," "strategic alliance," "the need for peace," and so on .
Before no other country on the planet does the United States kneel and plead like this. In other trouble spots, America takes a different tone. It bombs in Afghanistan, invades Iraq and threatens sanctions against Iran and North Korea. Did anyone in Washington consider begging Saddam Hussein to withdraw from occupied territory in Kuwait?
But Israel the occupier, the stubborn contrarian that continues to mock America and the world by building settlements and abusing the Palestinians, receives different treatment."
THAT IS THE ESSENCE OF CLASS DUPLICITY, IMPERIAL HYPOCRISY, THE DOUBLE STANDARDS, CORRUPT STANDARDS, OF WESTERN DEFORMED CIVIL SOCIETIES, WHO DEMAND INTERNATIONAL LAWS, BUT THEN BREAK THEM THEMSELVES.
Brian Mcallistor:
The homeland belongs to all who live there. I will not argue, Biblical, religious arguments about "chosen people" but your proto fascist views that justify occupation, ethnic cleansing, futher aggression and expansion, goes against international laws, that were used against the Fascists, Nazis, and imperialists, and are the basis of the U.N. Charter, that are being violated by Zionist thugs, colonial thugs, who carry out criminal policies which most of the world has condemned, except the criminal class elites of Western war criminal states, especially American Empire under the corrupt Obama, Hillary, and liberal warmongering Zionists in Congress.
bring a U.N. report alleging war crimes in the Gaza Strip before the Security Council.
I assume they refer to the numerous war crimes ommitted by Hamas
redshadowwithgreenbackground:
Again the proto fascist Zionists, teabaggers, make these false arguments. Goldstone's report clearly refers to all war crimes, but as always, the yahoos, nationalists, imperial thugs think their exceptionalism, whether Israeli or American, gives them the right to carry out illegal aggressions, illegal occupations, carry out war crimes, while ideologically abstracting the victims of these criminal policies, occupation, and ignored history, the violence of the slaves as equal to the violence of the slave master. Perhaps it is because this proto fascist ideology promotes corporate and imperial thuggery, instead of universal values and human rights, which was the basis of the universal jurisdiction used by Israel and American prosecutors, to go after Nazis, fascists, yahoos, nationalists, imperial thugs that now justify it in their name. Sort of like it ain't fascism if our fascist ideologues support it and it ain't fascism if American and Israeli thugs carry out such policies. There is only one word to describe this process ....HYPOCRISY.
American Empire and Zionist Israel are two rogue states, war criminal states, being investigated for their war crimes and war criminals. We have degenerated into a corporate-proto-fascist state where all three branches are corrupted by criminality, corruption both class and imperial policies, where even the judicial branch and its Judicial Nazis rule for legalized fascism, as they have also done in Zionist Israel, under specious, narrow and faulty ideological abstractions.
Today, on Democracy Now, such a case made it clear that all three branches are involved in proto fascist policies, when judges ruled that Fascism, criminal policies by the Executive were legal, and all three branches of government are involved in failing to uphold the Constitution, for corporate laws, fascist power of the Presidency, as this case demonstrates:
Appeals Court Rules in Maher Arar Case: Innocent Victims of Extraordinary Rendition Cannot Sue in US Courts (video)
http://www.democracynow.org/2009/11/3/appeals_court_rules_in_maher_arar
and:
Listen to the Victims of the Torture We Are Not Prosecuting (video)
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/47448
and when you listen to Israeli soldiers talking about Right wing Nazis settlers attacking Palestinians, Palestinian shopkeepers, destroying their store and stealing their property, with the help of the IDF, Israeli army, remember Kristalnacht and the right wing Nazis smashing Jewish stores and stealing their property ........(and the echoes of IT AIN'T FASCISM IF AMERICA AND ISRAEL THUGS CARRY OUT SIMILAR POLICIES):
Israeli Activists Criticize US House for Considering Resolution Condemning Goldstone Report on Israeli War Crimes in Gaza (VIDEO)
http://www.democracynow.org/2009/11/3/israeli_activists_criticize_us_house_for
Apparently "War Crimes" only refer to those who the US government doesn't like ..... sort of like the failure to prosecute credit fraud by lenders ..... Its nice to see how "blind" US justice really is??
Brian Mcallistor:
I said I would not engage religious dogma which uses religious nationalism, "chosen people", in the same way fascist, secular nationalism does. Justifying ethnic cleansing, aggression, occupation is proto fascist, imperial rot, whether secular or religious rot.
Well done Eric !
I must congratulate you on your well documented references and analysis regardless of the Terrier like yapping of our dear departed Brian.
The sad truth of the matter however is that there can and will be NO justice on this as long as the US wields it's mighty Veto power over any binding legislation from the UN Security Council.
The very fact that some UN members are still bothering to pursue this matter in the hopes of "getting Israel to conduct their own investigation" shows how low the institution has sunk in terms of having any leverage on the failed Rogue Terror State TM
Ironically Barack Obama sends his sickly sweet video message bleating on about our undying support to one and all in Israel.
And though he plays the "placate the villain" melody on his flute as well as any other US Administration - they still trash him in Israel and the US for not doing more "for the cause" in Israel.
Imagine the power these zealots have over the Good US of A - why it almost makes you wonder why we simply don't adopt Israel as the next State or simply incorporate them into the District of Columbia?
Suggestion Box:
How about a name change for the USA:
e.g.The United Judeo Christian Emirates
Washing DC and Israel (Washington DCI )
The U.S.O (United States + Our Favorite Sun Drenched Medditterrannean Air and Sea Base)
Ok - how about simply:
Sparta?
Excellent!!
The problem is that increasingly the UN is seen as a useless organization. The cold war methodolgy upon which it was based no longer functions. Is it any wonder smaller states and groups lash out against the west with violence when there attempts at diplomacy are categorically and systematically ignored? The vetos should be immediately scrapped. The UN should be run as a democracy, and "international law should be enforced uniformly ..... but then again the top 1% in the USA should not control more financial wealth than the bottom 95% ..... so call me an idealist!
well guess 2 things we have in common the English, part "Welsh" and I am brought up Catholic and will leave that as is, don't like to talk religion.
and see your troubles too and have to state I admire women in Muslim countries standing up for there rights, so you're one of them, I adore a man in my life, but because of status and also his conviction, I would never be able to convince myself, to even have a relation, besides the mutual respect we have for each other as friends, I know he want much more than I ever wanna give and also do know, he cant change his life to fit mine, so we remain friends and meet on natural grounds, since I am still in "orange security" and isn't allow in any Muslim country. whatever that's a friendly Muslim country or not. but I like Rome and Paris so we still see each other.
there's is something though you stated and I don't for real got your point, and was toward exposure as a woman, in fashion or porn or just on stage.
One of my hobbies are singing/choreography. meaning I was singing on stage in cats. when I was 13 and is only in studios now no more public appearance, making music videos, for other artists choreography/dancing and sometimes singing background, there have brought me "semi" fame and I for real, never did any of those things, just to higher me self-esteem, but did it because I had talent and opportunity to do so, maybe in a way I like the exposure a little and for real like the idea, that someone finds out, I never for real looked at it psychological, but also only is a hobby, not me life and have promised me Dad, if he say stop I will, he isn't in on this at all, he think like you, it can add trouble down the line and for real isn't becoming of a young lady, to expose herself, to the view of, now I think 11 video awards and 571 million views on you tube, but have at least always been smart enough, to not reveal true identity, to fans and public persons, I just don't understand that you think it's wrong to express yourself, in dance or song just because you think, someone can take advantage of you, but should state. my "friend" in Rome/Paris hates it and state, he can absolutely not share me, with any and for sure not, with every single guy seeing those video's, in a way, I kinda think I also do it, to irritate him a little, I don't do good when guy's wanna tell me what to do. :D
Demoness,
"bubblegum" will someone please remove this duplicate.
Thanks.
Demoness.
Demoness , Although the seed is about 'War Crimes'.. I,d like to clear out somethng about liberation Whatever the extent of freedom we have, there will be always things we can,t tell and we are in denial about ugly reality ...., I will tell one of those things in response to what you,ve mentioned about the friend you have. I am not glad to admit that this thing 'true love' is not existing anymore someting in us has changed in modern times especially after AIDS panic and internet offering life and dating ...extra..Having the affinity to go along with more than one relationship at a time taking none of them seriously....True love may pass once as a glance then wanes away with material life. You watch those people in TV programs complaining that their beloved wives have multi-affair reationship on MySpace -and the beloved husbands mess arround on internet..evrybody is lying wit brazen face
I know you didn,t get my point about women used as goods in adv business and porn . I love all kinds of arts and music and stage performance , I paint and play music ' though not having your talant in singing' ...What I spoke against is using women,s bodies for making money in porn business and professional prostitution . Some closed minded men would generalize the notion of 'every woman for sale'' at every innocent girl they meet with
Honnestly cann,t allege that I stood up for my rights I was lucky to be raised by an open minded muslem dad '' this is common in well educated societies of Egypt'' He allowed me and my sis to move arround the world and to make choice to settle down in London and Cairo on alternative periods.... .I guees you won,t exepect that the things in common between you and me are not the English part of me , it s the free soul and open mind I inherited from my Egyptian dad,. My mother is a classic conservative Brititish lady from coutryside. She was in incessant arguement with dad for the extreme freedom he believes his daughters should get to make their way through.....I know this is uncommon situation ...what would you say to know that I even inherited white skin from my Arab dad ?!! My mom has brown eyes and hair [everything here is upside down..lol]
well I liked that part of it all that it was papa the most unlikely part to give you all the rights as a person and not just a woman with no say in that part of the world and mostly liked, that he for real sounds like a great human being.
Towards the music video's I am in and also towards performance I'm not trying to make it less than what it for real is, my dancing/choreography is also about looks "as you stated" if I didn't have the look I doubt too, I was picked to be in the video's, since sale is what the video's for real is fo,r to promote the good song, today you also have to have some kind of sex appeal, so in a way I get your point.
I know as you stated were a little off topic here, but will add here, I'm a good girl and don't have sexual relations with any before I am married to same and is kinda funny because, many think when your good looking you're also a slut, because people think it's only ugly people there is virgins and that because, no one wanted them.
Demoness.
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