Pushes among human rights lawyers for the International Criminal Court (ICC) at the Hague to open up a probe into war crimes during the latest Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip have not netted any public comments, as the court is said to be under intense pressure from the US and Israel not to investigate anything.
The ICC has ducked previous pushes for an investigation with claims of uncertain jurisdiction in the occupied territories, though most agree this is simply a pretext to avoid the “political consequences” of a probe the US opposes.
The UN Human Rights Agency has announced a probe of its own, which was immediately and loudly condemned by Israel, and the Israeli government has also banned Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch from Gaza to prevent any private probes.
The two human rights groups promised to continue to do everything they can to investigate the war crimes in Gaza, though the Israeli ban aims to both block direct investigation and to taint any reports released, with the argument that the agencies didn’t have anyone on the ground to verify reports.
Of course when the two are caught with their pants down, they want the world to quickly avert their eyes, and "understand" that "boys will be boys." Can they get any worse ? I say "Throw the book at them !"
Imagine if Russia did something like this.
Or if Russia didn't but someone said they did.
well put.
Kerry would loosen his bowels on prime time TV.
It would smell to high heaven!
Barack Hussein Obama nor the political party he represent is about American working man and women, they are about Israel/AIPAC/vulture capitalism to start with, the Israelis taking the arms the need from the source/pentagon without WH knowing about it proves it. The last 60 years by USG being at war with rest of the world proves it. The creation of ISIS in Syria and Iraq proves it, the blinded support for Israel fascism/apartheid regime proves it, the creation of Neo fascism in Ukraine proves it.
The Jews are not Jews-DNA evidence: http://www.texemarrs.com/042013/jews_not_descenda…
Further, even the story of Abraham has the trappings of a made up story. http://beyondallreligion.net/old-testament/
More : http://www.iamthewitness.com/doc/Ashkenazis.are.n…
"GOD BLESS AMERICA and the ZIONIST REGIME on occupied Palestinian lands.
It is a further war Crime to excuse war crimes, it is a War Crime to NOT prosecute war crimes, this is US domestic law, it is in fact Israeli Domestic law as BOTH are signatories of Geneva, I should note as well it is a war Crime for other signatory nations to fail to take action against another country that breaches Geneva!Geneva Convention Relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War of August 12, 1949, schedule 3 Article 131
No High Contracting Party shall be allowed to absolve itself or any other High Contracting Party of any liability incurred by itself or by another High Contracting Party in respect of breaches referred to in the preceding Article.
note that schedule 4 Article 148 is Identical!
Article 129
The High Contracting Parties undertake to enact any legislation necessary to provide effective penal sanctions for persons committing, or ordering to be committed, any of the grave breaches of the present Convention defined in the following Article.
Each High Contracting Party shall be under the obligation to search for persons alleged to have committed, or to have ordered to be committed, such grave breaches, and shall bring such persons, regardless of their nationality, before its own courts. It may also, if it prefers, and in accordance with the provisions of its own legislation, hand such persons over for trial to another High Contracting Party concerned, provided such High Contracting Party has made out a prima facie case.
Each High Contracting Party shall take measures necessary for the suppression of all acts contrary to the provisions of the present Convention other than the grave breaches defined in the following Article.
In all circumstances, the accused persons shall benefit by safeguards of proper trial and defence, which shall not be less favourable than those provided by Article 105 and those following of the present Convention.
Unless these murderers and massacres of the innocent are brought to justice, war crimes, genocide and atrocities will go on another 70 years. Haul them all in, including the US government enablers and abetters.
Zionist impunity from War Crimes prosecution shreds the rule of law everywhere. If the United Nations does not throw the book at Zionist Israel, and their US enabler for blatant war crimes, then the world is in for a very bleak future. Zionists are not true Jewry, period. They are a vicious imposter masquerading as Jewish representatives. The UN is an important vehicle of proper conduct internationally; but first they need to move out of New York and re-establish itself in a neutral zone.
One of the leading Jewish man in England was opposed to the zionist movement because he felt that eventually the world would ask why are you hear if you have a homeland and then force the jews out of the nations they lived. Lets hope they find peace before they get to that point.
I think the members of the ICC needs or worry about more than political consequences they a have to worry about their lives. If the Republican / Democratic organized crime syndicate will murder an American citizen for writing bad things about it just think what they would do to people who could potentially cause real trouble for them.
What's new?
Obama bent to the will of the U.S. plutocrats not to investigate the obvious war crimes by the Bush administration and the financial plutocrats, that fund his campaigns, not to prosecute the glaring financial fraud that created the 2008 financial crisis and Obama obeyed by stating to the public that "we have to focus on is getting things right in the future as opposed to looking at what we got wrong in the past."
Now, the zionist plutocrats and their minions have their turn at yanking Obama's leash.
Why would the most moral military on the planet do anything but welcome looking into its actions. Surely they have no reason to worry after all they tell us they are the most moral. I feel looking at events of history only leads to a better world. They should not make it look like a review is a bad thing. Are they moral or creeps?