Let me begin by saying that I am not opposed to Israel. I fully support that nation’s right to exist in peace and safety. That said, I oppose Israel’s current government, because, contrary to international treaties, that government is denying the same right to exist in peace and safety to the Palestinians. There is now solid evidence of Israeli war crimes from Amnesty International.
Amnesty International says its new report provides "some of the most compelling evidence yet" that Israel committed war crimes during its attack on Gaza last summer.
‘Black Friday’: Carnage in Rafah during 2014 Israel/Gaza conflict states that findings indicate that Israeli forces acted in retaliatory manner, with disregard for civilian life, after Lieutenant Hadar Goldin was captured by Hamas fighters, and that the events demand urgent, independent investigation.
"The ferocity of the attack on Rafah shows the extreme measures Israeli forces were prepared to take to prevent the capture alive of one soldier—scores of Palestinian civilian lives were sacrificed for this single aim," said Philip Luther, Director of the Middle East and North Africa Program at Amnesty International.
The report from the human rights organization and Forensic Architecture, a research team based at Goldsmiths, University of London, focuses on a three-day period, from August 1 until August 4, during what Israel called Operation Protective Edge.
Researchers reconstructed events using evidence including videos, photos, satellite images, news reports, and eyewitness accounts… [emphasis added]
Inserted from <Common Dreams>
The following video shows Amnesty International’s forensic analysis.
Here in the US, Black lives matter, and the Republican Party do everything possible to make sure that they don’t. In the Middle East, Palestinian lives matter, and Likud, led by Butcher Bibi Netanyahu (R-IS), do everything possible to make sure that they don’t.
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I like both your explanation of the distinction about being opposed to persons' behaviors and choices vs. their country and your comparison to the racism issue with most prominance in the US at the moment. Thanks for the update on the investigation's findings affirming what many of us were believing from the reports and videos we'd seen.
Thank you
Thanks for posting this, TomCat. Yes, there is quite a lot of evidence of Israel's war crimes against the Palestinians, this report is just one of many. I'm too pressed for time and wouldn't know where to start listing all the findings of these report, so I won't. Suffices to say that there is no doubt Israel has no regard for Palestinian life whatsoever. You know I'll always try to find the middle road, so it must be said that Hamas/Palestinian insurgents have also committed war crimes, but these pale in comparison with the wanton destruction of life in the war on Gaza in 2014.
The same can be said for black lives in America. Some black individuals may have given the police reason to violently subdue them, some may have tried to take out a cop for no good reason, but these actions pale in the light of the systemic racism that present within the police force and not only present, but flourishing in the Republican Party. At the moment there are quite a few countries where one 'color' or 'creed' (and sometimes both) rules with complete disrespect, with overpowering hatred, of the lives of others, not just America and Israel, but what they all have in common – I can't think of an exception right now – is that the leaders who exhibit such thought and behavior are invariably Republicans in mind and body.
Bibi (R-IS), with the help of a lot of his fellow Rethuglicans in Congress, has gotten – and will continue to get – a lot of innocent women and children killed.
There is innocent blood on their hands!
I agree and this isn't even supposedly war, which has long been known not to be "healthy for children and other living things."
TC, the distinction you make: "I am not opposed to Israel. I fully support that nation’s right to exist in peace and safety. That said, I oppose Israel’s current government, because, contrary to international treaties, that government is denying the same right to exist in peace and safety to the Palestinians." is one that should be made by all people with a brain, provided they are peying attention,and it is so simple. And well said. And yet there are probably some who cannot make it, but probably more who refuse to make it. And nobody knows that better than Carrie B on Care2, a brave lady who is doing her best to make it clear.
Lona, you have certainly hit the nail on the head. I could also mention the Dominican Republic, and the Americans who are so opposed to immigration, as long as it's brown. But I think the point is made.
Excellent points–and how dark the skin is often matters, too, statistically speaking…
That video shows that almost anything can be reconstructed on film now, glad Amnesty is interested in this. I have always supported Israel, too, but not so much recently, when they bomb apartment buildings that they know has children in residence. I think Bibi the Butcher is a good name for him.
Thanks TC, I agree with you completely, Israel has a right to exist but they do NOT have the right to kill whoever they want whenever they want, and moreover in whatever immense quantities that they want. I'm glad that Amnesty International has produced this, I support them whenever I can.
Excellent article! Good to know that such work is being done in coöperation with Amnesty International.
I could not agree more with your statement:
Isn't it interesting that the people who once were the oppressed and maintained that they would not forget the atrocities meted out against them, are now themselves the oppressors meting out death and destruction against another people. And if one takes Butcher Bibi to task, there are too many people who wrongly call those who would hold Bibi accountable, anti Semites.
As long as we continue sending money and arms to Israel, they will continue killing Palestinians. Our politicians are complicit in the genocide being committed there.
You made me think of Iran's call for Israel and other countries to begin dismantling their nuclear arsenals…
I'm sick and tired of being accused of anti-semitism, when my mother was a non-practicing Jew, and my grandfather was a practicing Jew. I didn't approve of the Bush Reich either, but that doesn't make me anti-American. Protest defines my patriotism.
In the Vietnam War era it was tough to convince people of a patriotism based on the view of supporting the country when it is right and working to change it when it's wrong instead of the view that patriotism requires a support of country both when right and wrong–people are seemingly reviving that kind of rhetoric for this issue to everyone's harm.
Thanks, TomCat. A very eye-opening article!