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Politics : Israel to U.S. : Now Deal with Syria and Iran -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: sea_urchin who wrote (15277)5/23/2007 2:29:32 PM
From: philv  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 22250
 
Israel doesn't get a high score with Amnesty International.

"Israeli soldiers and Jewish settlers committed "serious human rights abuses" against the Palestinians in 2006, mostly with impunity, Amnesty International said in its annual report issued Wednesday."

But the Israeli Justice system thinks its all OK, even though the violent death count is 30 to 1, in Israel's favour of course.

"In the Palestinian territories, Israeli air and artillery strikes killed some 650 people, half of them unarmed civilians and including some 120 children, "a three-fold increase compared with 2005."

" Palestinian militant groups killed 21 Israeli civilians, including one child, half the figure of the previous year and the lowest since the intifada flared in September 2000."

breitbart.com



To: sea_urchin who wrote (15277)5/23/2007 3:11:07 PM
From: Crimson Ghost  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 22250
 
The Road To Jerusalem (via Lebanon)
By Robert Fisk

countercurrents.org

They came into Lebanon last summer when the world was watching Israel smash this small nation in a vain attempt to destroy the Hizbollah. But the men who set up their grubby little office in the Nahr el-Bared refugee camp, some of them fighters from the Iraq war, others from Yemen, Syria or Lebanon itself, were far more dangerous than America and Israel believed the Hizbollah to be