Netanyahu Warns World to Reject Gaza War Crimes Report
Cautions World Leaders Could Face Similar Charges for their Wars
While other top Israeli officials dismissed the UN’s Gaza War Crimes report with a combination of the usual accusations of personal bias by South African Judge Richard Goldstone and claims of outright anti-semitism behind the assessment of Israel’s January invasion of the Gaza Strip, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had a surprisingly frank response.
The hawkish Israeli Prime Minister cautioned that world leaders had better publicly reject the report, because they might face similar accusations of war crimes for their behavior in their assorted wars as well.
The UN report cited evidence that both the Israeli military and the Gaza militant groups involved in the conflict committed serious war crimes which might amount to crimes against humanity. Human rights groups say that the vast majority of the roughly 1,400 Gazans killed by the Israeli attack were civilians.
And while the UN report went out of its way to accuse both sides of war crimes, the United States was among the first to heed Netanyahu’s calls, condemning the report as “clearly one-sided.” The US was among the most outspoken defenders of the Israeli invasion.
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Netanyahu Warns World to Reject Gaza War Crimes Report « Dr Nasir Khan
September 18th, 2009 at 12:52 am
[...] World Leaders Could Face Similar Charges for their Wars by Jason Ditz, Antiwar.com, September 17, [...]
Peacegeek
September 18th, 2009 at 12:16 pm
Netanyahu's "warning" should be taken seriously. Bibi is obviously threatening to use his influence to encourage scrutiny of the USA; UK: Germany and other members of NATO and the coalition in Iraq. This is the sort of threat that could well backfire on Netanyahu — who recently made a surprise visit to threaten President Medvedev of Russia after the Arctic Sea incident. Bibi appears to be a falling off his rocker.
Harry53
September 18th, 2009 at 12:26 pm
As I said it before, The Gaza Ghetto Uprising was the Palestinian insurgency that arose within the Gaza Ghetto in israel occupied Palestine during operation Cast Lead, and which opposed Nazi Zionist Israel effort to transport the ghetto population out of their land, and this Mister Netanyahu is a war crime
Carroll
September 18th, 2009 at 6:43 am
Israel ‘”threatens”, Israel “demands”, Israel “warns”. ..ad nausum.
Other countries could be accused of war crimes?
Fine, let them be,..why have war crimes laws if they aren’t applied?
The propaganda that the US has some “moral obligation” to the Jews and Israel for “deliberately letting the jews die” in WWII is the biggest myth and scam in history.
boatops
September 19th, 2009 at 1:14 am
The real war crime was the June 8th,1967 Israeli ATTACK on the USS LIBERTY that killed 34 and wounded 171 U.S Navy Sailors. We sat by then as we still look the other way whenever it comes to Israel. Israel is not our friend. REMEMBER the LIBERTY!!!!