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[Free Spirit]

Somehow i dont think the Arabs get billions of dollars of aid every year.

I didn't say dollars; I said they were supplied with more military hardwhare than the Israelis.

Remember :- "It's not the suit it's the person inside".
The arabs probably sold most of their's whereas the Israelis loked after their's and when pushed used it on the arab plonkers.

Long live Israel; the chosen ones.

[saravakos]

You miss the point completely...you're talking about 1 man who may not give a shit about anything or anyone, and why is it his responsibility to help the Palestinians? Just cause he's an Arab too? Its down to the GOVERNMENTS OF THE WORLD to stand up and be counted.

[Free Spirit]

Somehow i dont think the Arabs get billions of dollars of aid every year.

Where's all the money from their oil wells?

[Get Real!]

Israel will not cooperate with UN Gaza inquiry
http://wire.antiwar.com/2009/04/15/isra ... a-inquiry/

Iran complains to UN about Israeli "threats"
http://wire.antiwar.com/2009/04/14/iran ... threats-2/

[Linichka]

Nor should Israel cooperate. The UN is hardly an impartial, unbiased entity.

As for Iran, it is rich to note they're bawling about Israeli threats, after all the violent anti-Israel vitriole emanating from Ahmadinejad over the years.

[Free Spirit]

Israel will not cooperate with UN Gaza inquiry
http://wire.antiwar.com/2009/04/15/isra ... a-inquiry/

Iran complains to UN about Israeli "threats"
http://wire.antiwar.com/2009/04/14/iran ... threats-2/

Why should the UN hold an enquiry; everyone knows that hamas got what they deserved and the philistine women and children got what hamas's cowardly behavour brought down upon them.

Iran complains about everything; maybe we should introduce them to Get Real then they'd Really (pardon the pun) have something to complain about.

[Get Real!]

Norway: 10 Israelis named in war crimes complaint

http://wire.antiwar.com/2009/04/22/norw ... complaint/

Israeli army admits 'isolated' mistakes in Gaza

http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0422/p06s10-wome.html

Israel backs down over white phosphorus

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/w ... 150448.ece

[Free Spirit]

Norway: No Israelis named in war crimes complaint

http://wire.antiwar.com/2009/04/22/norw ... elis-make- war crimes-complaint s against smelly arabs/

Israeli army admits 'isolated' mistakes in Gaza saying it should have got more

http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0422/p06s10-wome.html

Israel backs down over white phosphorus waste

http://www.Playboy Magazine.ece

[saravakos]

Palestinians run for cover during the Israeli phosphorus strike over the UN Relief and Works Agency headquarters at Beit Lahia, Gaza, in January

Sheera Frenkel in Tel Aviv
Israeli troops stopped using white phosphorus shells in Gaza this year after The Times published evidence that they were injuring civilians.

In its first explicit admission, the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) said that “media buzz” had forced the army to withdraw the shells from its arsenal on January 7 - the day that The Times obtained photographs of stockpiles and two days after the newspaper had exposed the effect of white phosphorus on the population of Gaza.

Phosphorus bombs may be used to create smokescreens but their use as weapons of war in civilian areas is banned by the Geneva Conventions. They cause severe burns that can penetrate to the bone.

An IDF briefing yesterday after an inquiry into the three-week Gaza offensive disclosed that two different munitions containing white phosphorus had been used. Mortar shells fired by ground forces and 76mm rounds fired from naval vessels both contained phosphorus as an active ingredient.

Until now the IDF has denied the Times accounts. On January 7 a military spokeman said that the shells in question had “no explosives and no white phosphorus”. Yet it was clear from yesterday's briefing by Major-General Dan Harel, the IDF Deputy Chief of Staff, that commanders were concerned by the controversy. “Since this was a big buzz in the media, we issued an order 7 Jan '09 to stop using white phosphorus shells,” he said, adding: “These shells were used only to create smokescreens, in keeping with international law.”

Even after the January 7 order the IDF continued to deploy less dangerous “smoke shells”, which contain felt soaked in phosphorus.

Israel launched Operation Cast Lead on December 27 in an effort to halt daily rocket attacks by Hamas militants from Gaza that were terrorising residents in southern Israel.

Yesterday's briefing was based on five IDF investigations into alleged violations committed by the military during the operation, in which more than a thousand Palestinians were killed. An Israeli official said that inquiries “revealed a very small number of incidents in which intelligence or operational errors took place”. By and large, the army had “maintained a high professional and moral level”.

The incidents included an attack that killed 21 people when forces targeted a home rather than a nearby weapon storage facility. “These unfortunate incidents are unavoidable and occur in all combat situations, in particular of the type which Hamas forced on the IDF by choosing to fight from within the civilian population,” the official said.

Human Rights Watch said: “We consider the IDF investigations a cover-up for serious violations of international law. Hamas also seriously violated the laws of war.”

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/w ... 150448.ece

Good find GR

[Free Spirit]

Human Rights Watch said: “We consider the IDF investigations a cover-up for serious violations of international law. Hamas also seriously violated the laws of war.”

Where were they when the hamas scum were firing rockets into Israel from behind 'Human Shields'?