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This picture of Henry Kissinger, Tony Blair, and Shimon Peres appeared in Haaretz’s coverage of the President’s Conference in Israel last week.

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I have this compulsive urge to scribble out TB.

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it would be interesting to know when Tony Blair sold his soul to the zionists – before he ever got close to being prime minister or sometime after – and how did they seal the deal?

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if only the photo-op had taken place in a country where a court had declared these three scoundrels to be war criminals. oh that there were such a nation!

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Maybe, if he had any integrity, Blair would demand a response to the latest report by UK lawyers about the depraved way Israel treats Palestinian children:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jun/26/israel-palestinian-children-injustice

Meticulously documented abuses of children by Israel. Note that they have to demand of Israel that:
Children should never be blindfolded or hooded.
Children should not be shackled at any time.
An end to night-time arrests of children
Any confession in a language other than the child’s own should not be accepted as evidence.
Solitary confinement should never be used “as a standard mode of detention or imprisonment”.

The fact that these measures are routine in Israel, with totally different (apartheid) laws for Israeli and Palestinian children is an indication of how depraved Israel has become, as they make the usual bogus excuses and false statements – they sound barely bothered about being exposed for their inhumane abuse of children. A twisted and perverse society who have no conscience, remorse or the remotest of concern about people who have the wrong parents.
Blair has such little interest in justice that he pays no attention to such reports from his own country, sitting down with the perpetrators and facilitators of such cruelty.

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RE: “Quick– somebody lock the doors and call the ICC!”

“YO BLAIR”: UK soldiers beat innocent Iraqi men in ‘black ops’ jails ~ by David Rose, The Daily Mail, 6/24/12

[EXCERPTS] ‘The Mail on Sunday’ can today reveal devastating new claims of abuse by British soldiers carried out at a secret network of illegal prisons in the Iraqi desert.
One innocent civilian victim is said to have died after being assaulted aboard an RAF helicopter, while others were hooded, stripped and beaten at a camp set up at a remote phosphate mine deep in the desert.
The whereabouts of a separate group of 64 Iraqi men who were spirited away on two RAF Chinooks to a ‘black site’ prison, located at an oil pipeline pumping station, remain unknown.
Perhaps the most shocking aspect of these alleged abuses, which appear to have been flagrant breaches of international law, is that this secret network is claimed to have been sanctioned by senior Ministry of Defence lawyers. . .
. . . Yet the top British Army lawyer on the ground in Iraq – who was supposed to be responsible for all aspects of prisoner detention – remained completely unaware of it.
Meanwhile, the Government last week introduced its new secrecy law in Parliament, which, if enacted, would mean details of the emerging scandal would be hidden for ever.
The role of both the soldiers and the lawyers in the alleged prisoner abuse will come under the spotlight tomorrow, when the first stage of a legal action on behalf of some of the victims is launched.
If the Justice and Security Bill becomes law, Ministers will be able to demand secret hearings, and to prevent the victims from ever seeing evidence about their claims.
Last night, Lieutenant Colonel Nicholas Mercer, the chief British Army lawyer in Iraq during the 2003 invasion, said what went on in the secret prison network amounted to ‘war crimes’. . .

ENTIRE ARTICLE – http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2163799/UK-soldiers-beat-innocent-Iraqi-men-black-ops-jails-new-secret-justice-law-means-torture-hidden-forever.html

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