In addition to visiting Israel:
Mitchell, 75, is also likely to visit Palestinian President
Mahmoud Abbas and Prime Minister Salam Fayyad in the West Bank
and might make stops in Egypt and Jordan, the adviser said.
Mahmoud Abbas and Prime Minister Salam Fayyad in the West Bank
and might make stops in Egypt and Jordan, the adviser said.
(Thanks to Murphy McMahon)
I would give Mitchell a little time. Gaza is emotionally very volatile right now.
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Eva, volatile? Do you mean still smoldering?
I guess with the risk of asphyxiation, or death by stoning, it's still a little too dangerous for a hundred Blackwater and a secret service entourage to provide the 75-year-old Mitchell cover.
So without having to actually set foot, could Mitchell just get aboard a C-130 and dump a few thousand gallons of water over Gaza, just to put out the remaining fires and clean away the soot?
Or would providing that much fresh water be disobeying the blockade?
Public asked for information on travel plans and whereabouts of top Israeli leaders
Call for arrest of 15 Israeli leaders suspected of war crimes in Gaza
By Redress Information & Analysis
26 January 2009
An international human rights organization has submitted evidence to the International Criminal Court for the arrest of top Israeli leaders for war crimes in Gaza and has called for information about the travel plans and whereabouts outside Israel of the suspects.
A human rights organization has called for the arrest of a number of senior Israeli leaders for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
The International Coalition against Impunity (HOKOK), a non-governmental organization registered with the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia, has submitted a “Letter of Notification and Referral” to the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court outlining the case for the arrest of 15 Israeli political and military leaders for crimes committed in Gaza in violation of the Rome Statute and the Fourth Geneva Convention.
It has also issued an international appeal for information about the undermentioned war crimes suspects. Members of the public in Israel and throughout the world who have information about the travel plans or whereabouts of the undermentioned suspects when they are outside Israel should report this immediately to:
The Prosecutor
P.O. Box 19519
2500 Hague
Netherlands
Fax +31 70 515 8 555
otp.informationdesk@icc-cpi.int
The Israeli war crimes suspects are:
1. Ehud Barak
2. Amir Peretz
3. Binyamin Ben Eliezer
4. Avi Dichter
5. Carmi Gillon
6. Dan Halutz
7. Doron Almog
8. Ehud Olmert
9. Eliezer Shkedy
10. Gabi Ashkenazi
11. Giora Eiland
12. Matan Vilnai
13. Moshie Bogie Yaalon
14. Shaul Mofaz
15. Tzipi Livni
A summary of the evidence against the above-mentioned war crimes suspects can be found in the document below, which is also available in Hebrew.
Public asked for information on travel plans and whereabouts of top Israeli leaders
Israel War Crime Suspects
Dump a few thousand gallons of water over the territory and you will be accused of attempting to kill women and children.
Water, not white phosphorus, Chris.
George Mitchell courageously follows in the footsteps of Tony BLiar, visiting the indecent, the illegitimate and the irrelevant.
Probably the pair are gunning for a Nobel Peace Prize like Jimmy C. … if they aren't in fact the same person (has anyone ever seen them together?).
http://counterpunch.com/
The entire world knows that Israel is guilty of war crimes and that the US government made the crimes possible by providing the weapons and diplomatic support. What Israel and the US did in Lebanon and Gaza is no different from crimes for which Nazis were tried at Nuremberg. Israel understands this, and the Israeli government is currently preparing its defense, which will be led by Israeli Justice (sic) Minister Daniel Friedman. UN war crimes official Richard Falk has compared Israel’s massacre of Gazans to the Nazi starvation and massacre of Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto. Amnesty International and the Red Cross have demanded Israel be held accountable for war crimes. Even eight Israeli human rights groups have called for an investigation into Israel’s war crimes.
This omission is utterly unacceptable.
They're just poor brown Muslims who don't wear ties — who gives a fuck?
The entire world knows next to nothing. AI and RC can demand on one hand and deficate on the other. You know what will get full first.
Until AI and RC demand the same accountability from Hamas, they will get nothing from israel but a one fingered salute.
"The entire world knows next to nothing."
Because Israel kept the press out of Gaza.
Damn right, Chris.
The whole world is stupid.
What would be fair is if whatever goes for Israel, goes for Hamas too.
Hamas should be forced to stop the expansion, stop the home demolitions, stop the blockade, stop the wanton bombing and gassing of civilians, and stop the phone calls interrupting the American president and ordering him to vote a certain way at the U.N.
If the acronyms you mysteriously introduced don't demand that of Hamas, why should we even bother asking what the fuck they stand for?
MM,
You truly did not realize that AI is amnesty international and RC is red cross?
I guess I rest my case concerning the world knowing very little.
This is continuation of the Sixty Minutes piece. There is one point they exposed that should strike a cord with the American people and that is the third amendment of the US constitution:
No soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.
And as many of us have known for years, and now many other Americans should know, the Israeli's billet soldiers in Palestinian homes as a routine. Next time some fool says to me that Israel is a democracy, my only response should be one big raspberry.
Israel is a democracy. however, it is not modeled after American democracy. The founders of American democracy, were English, from England.
The founders of Israeli democracy, for the most part, were schooled in other Europeon forms of democracy.
Exactly which Israeli law, passed by the israeli parliment, was violated?
The entire world knows next to nothing. AI and RC can demand on one hand and deficate on the other. You know what will get full first.
This must be an israeli coinage, I've never heard it before. It's a bit too long in english to sound cutting.
No, chris Berel, the founders of Israeli "democracy" were schooled in
their own version of democracy, which has nothing in common with
democracy as founded by Western Civilization, neither in USA nor Europe. The ZOA web site actually expressly confirms this. The Zionist version of democracy is sourced by the Zionist version of
Judaism.
Similarly, the NAZI version of equitable law was not founded by
Western civilization either.
Two peas in a pod.
No difference except the swastika symbol is more aesthetically moving than the rigid star of David. But that's just a label, the
contents are the same.
Funny how you actually approve of nazi symbolism. Sort of fits your personality.