Morning Star, July 3, 2014
A one-sided response to the killings of three Israeli settlers ignores the Palestinians’ ongoing oppression, says JEREMY CORBYN MP
“NOTHING can justify these
abductions and murders, which we again condemn. Those responsible must
be brought to justice … but justice will not be served by Israel seeking
revenge by imposing collective punishment, or committing other
violations of Palestinians’ rights.”
Thus said Philip Luther of Amnesty
International in response to the murder of three Israeli settlers in
Palestine. However, retribution is very much the order of the day, as
has been widely reported around the world.
Palestinian residents in Shuafat, an Arab suburb of
Jerusalem, told Reuters they had seen a teenager forced into a vehicle
outside a supermarket on Tuesday night. They identified him as
16-year-old Mohammed Abu Khudir.
A few hours later his body, partly burned and bearing
marks of violence was found abandoned on the outskirts of the city. In
response to this, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called on all sides
not to take the law into their own hands.
A strange choice of words as TV screens all around the
globe showed the bombing and burning of Gaza in Israeli air strikes
supposedly targeting Hamas positions, despite having no evidence that
Hamas had been involved in the abduction of the teenagers.
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Netanyahu calls for respect for the rule of law while his
government indulges in collective punishment and has been condemned as
such in respect of the Geneva Conventions for past incursions and
bombings in Gaza.
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