Liberty Star
09-20-2008, 10:02 AM
Some Hagee type extremist fundies' support for open-ended occupation in holy land could be filed under fanaticism or some weird manifestation of racism dressed as religious extremism but why our champion of freedom and racial equality Congress has failed to speak up for freedom and democracy in holy land in these modern times?
Can anyone shed some light on this?
UN body in a previous racism confrence in Europe had tried to paint Israel as an apartheid state ( following Jimmy Carter's lead perhaps) , now they are placing war crimes label:
Israeli attack on Beit Hanoun a possible war crime – head of UN-backed probe
18 September 2008 – Israel’s shelling of Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip in November 2006, which killed 19 Palestinian civilians, may constitute a war crime, the head of the United Nations-backed investigation into the incident said today.
The attack “took lives, inflicted horrendous physical and mental injuries, tore families apart, destroyed homes, took away livelihoods and traumatized a population,” Archbishop Desmond Tutu told reporters in Geneva, after presenting the final report of the high-level fact-finding mission set up by the UN Human Rights Council.
The mission, which was able to travel to Beit Hanoun in May this year through Egypt after 14 months of trying to gain entry through Israel, also included Professor Christine Chinkin of the London School of Economics.
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=28111&Cr=&Cr1=
Can anyone shed some light on this?
UN body in a previous racism confrence in Europe had tried to paint Israel as an apartheid state ( following Jimmy Carter's lead perhaps) , now they are placing war crimes label:
Israeli attack on Beit Hanoun a possible war crime – head of UN-backed probe
18 September 2008 – Israel’s shelling of Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip in November 2006, which killed 19 Palestinian civilians, may constitute a war crime, the head of the United Nations-backed investigation into the incident said today.
The attack “took lives, inflicted horrendous physical and mental injuries, tore families apart, destroyed homes, took away livelihoods and traumatized a population,” Archbishop Desmond Tutu told reporters in Geneva, after presenting the final report of the high-level fact-finding mission set up by the UN Human Rights Council.
The mission, which was able to travel to Beit Hanoun in May this year through Egypt after 14 months of trying to gain entry through Israel, also included Professor Christine Chinkin of the London School of Economics.
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=28111&Cr=&Cr1=