Monday, September 21, 2009

Following Publication of Report of the UN Fact Finding Mission on Gaza: Israeli War Criminals to Trial/Court!

Michael Warschawski, Alternative Information Center, Sep 16, 2009

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Israeli Defense Minister, Ehud Barak.

Publication of Report of the UN Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict is an important step, on condition that it is followed up. This is important, first and foremost, for international public hygiene: during two decades of neo-conservative rule in the United States, we were witness to a joint effort of the White House and Israel to annul the norms of international law. Here we can recall the stupid comment of George W. Bush. Bush, in the framework of the global war on terror, argued it is essential to annul the limitations placed by the Geneva Conventions on combatants. And Israel, already in the early 1970s, decided that the Fourth Geneva Conventions are not applicable to the occupied Palestinian territories.

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