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UN rights body endorses Goldstone Report
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Published: 16.10.09, 13:35
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1. What a beautiful day.....
Marco ,   Spain   (10.16.09)
This calls for worldwide celebrations. I know you are overjoyed in Israel, but please dont drink and drive. We want you around to watch the ICC in action. Olmert, Barak, Livni, Mofaz and the other stooges have already rooms reserved at the Hague.
2. Time to get out of U.N.
I.D ,   Rockville, USA   (10.16.09)
3. Thank You, UN ( United Nations )
Atilla Karagözoğlu   (10.16.09)
4. Yes..its a historical day for humanity and justice
zeus ,   greece   (10.16.09)
5. Justice must be done !
Michael ,   Jerusalem   (10.16.09)
the only result of the stone report, is the paper and ink waste it causes. regarding the ICC, none of the above names will be present. Spain, Greece and friends will soon understand that Israel doesn't really care about their muslimo-christiano lies.
6. I have lost all respect for the UN, and I am Canadian.
John J. Small ,   Ottawa, ON Canada   (10.16.09)
7. Declare UNHRC a terrorist organisation and...
Truth Hertz ,   UK   (10.16.09)
Issue international arrest warrants for its members.
8. Short lived
J K ,   NYC, USA   (10.16.09)
The US SHOULD veto this resolution. Whether you think Israel may or may not have committed violations, there is no way anyone could look at this report and the situation on the ground and conclude this this report is somehow 'fair'. It completely ignores almost 8 years worth of rocket attacks, cross-border shootings, kidnapping Shalit, etc, and no, 9 pages out of 575 is not balance. Not to mention that the sources of critque against Israel and suspect in their own right. Again, this report should be dismissed, but i wouldn't put it past the Obama administration to let it through, furthering his efforts to brown-nose the rest of the planet into liking us. www.tzomet.net
9. Counting the benefits of Disingagement and Peace Process
USA   (10.16.09)
The gift of Disingagement keeps on giving. Now Jews are war criminals. Good, exelent, now creat a PA state in Judea and Samaria and see what happens. Jews are truely a wise people.
10. Okay, that's done
Sarah B ,   New York / Saviyon   (10.16.09)
So when will the Human Rights Council move on to an investigation of war crimes and crimes against humanity in: - The Congo - Zimbabwe - Rwanda - Ivory Coast - Somalia - Sudan - Libya - Spain - Chechnya - Iran - Turkey - Afghanistan - Pakistan - Indonesia - The Philippines to name but a few. The foregoing account for no fewer than 17 million murdered noncombatants. Oh, no. I guess in the warped of the United Nations "Human Rights" Commission, four hundred Palestinian noncombatants who were the unavoidable casualties of armed conflict trumps 17 million murdered non-Palestinians. The United Nations is a joke. They are a huge drain on the American taxpayers and they are an obnoxious annoyance in the City of New York, where diplomats park their cars right next to fire hydrants, do not pay utilities and otherwise manage to make themselves unwelcome "guests." Given their political bent, shouldn't they just set up shop in Gaza or South Lebanon?
11. russia votes against israel
alexi   (10.16.09)
What russia did to georgia and chechnya places them in bed with the nazis, yet in their sanctimonious double faced way, they voted for the UN resolutin against israel. I am not clinton w ho speaks in positive tones, all lies, about relations with russia and sanctions againt israel. In fact clinton has become olmert in drag, an ineffectual lying coward. Israel has been hit with a lot of things and christ killers was the biggest since it was rome who did the dirty work. Now Goldstone comes around, never fought in war, and writes a report given by people who ly through their teeth and who were never cross examined. This report has harmed israel for defending itself. Nato would be condemned by goldstone for attacking serbian civilians, yet moslem states would never bee condemned by goldstone for attacking civilians like turkey did against the kurds. As others have said, goldstone turned into a kapo for his milliion dollar UN payment.
12. I think it is time to....
(10.16.09)
Prosecute the USA for its war crimes committed in Somalia. Prosecute China for its human rights violations. Prosecute Russia gor the atrocities committed during its Georgia offensive. What a travesty is this body of soulless parasites called the UN. May all nations suffer the ill will they have for this people. Absurd. Wait for the rise of a new world madman and the next conflagration and us telling the world, told you so. Though it will be to late. Pray, pray hard before it is to late
13. To our cousins and neighbors,
Ismael ,   Gaza   (10.16.09)
After the war, I visited hundreds of destroyed houses in a small area in northern Gaza. You can not imagine what your army did. It is more than ware crime and it is very easy to provide evidence. I think, you do not like to see the light of the truth. Pls. try to open your eyes.
14. To our cousins and neighbors,
Ismael ,   Gaza   (10.16.09)
After the war, I visited hundreds of destroyed houses in a small area in northern Gaza. You can not imagine what your army did. It is more than ware crime and it is very easy to provide evidence. I think, you do not like to see the light of the truth. Pls. try to open your eyes.
15. #1 Marco - I LOVE YOU !! :)
(10.16.09)
16. #12 - Feeling nervouse Sarah ?? :)
(10.16.09)
Stop supporting Israeli crimes !!!
17. To Sara, No. 10
New Yorker ,   New York   (10.16.09)
Sara, Neither the U.N., nor the world at large cares about "human rights". Human rights is a Western concept. It does not belong anywhere else. The West does not give a hoot - and rightly so - about "human rights" in the rest of the world. Human rights can only go so far as the humans involved allow them. The U.N. is an instrument for achieving various poloitical aims. The humanity has never risen above the primitive "get the jew" mentality. Israel is the jew and the savages are out to get her. "The jew" must hit back hard, disproportionately - and damn the Goldsones of this world.
18. This is a victory for the Palestinians and to the lovers
Noor ,   Palestine   (10.16.09)
of justice! Whether Israeli leaders and commanders do get prosecuted or not, this is a victory as Israel's atrocities have been broadcast throughout the entire world. The U.S. can shield Israel from any legal consequences, but Israel is now known as a war criminal state. A victory for the Palestinians, it is!
19. Israel must face justice!!!
Noor ,   Palestine   (10.16.09)
LONG LIVE FREEDOM AND JUSTICE, AND LONG LIVE PALESTINE!! Congratulations, my people!
20. arab crocodile tears
mahmoud ,   usa   (10.16.09)
we arabs cry like terrible two years old baby when some one hit our butts,but we practice double standard when we commit war crimes in darfoor sudan,so far 300,000 were killed by our great president omar al-bashir,all the arab leaders sided with him and called the UN a racist institution,go figure the morally ambiguous arab characters
21. The UN has OCD when it comes to Israel.
David ,   Manchester, UK   (10.16.09)
22. Morals and legality.
Ron B. ,   Lod   (10.16.09)
The rules of international law governing the use of force by victims of aggression are embarrassingly unjust and would never be tolerated by any domestic criminal law system. They give the advantage to unlawful aggressors and thereby undermine international justice, security and stability. Article 51 of the U.N. Charter forbids all use of force except that for "self-defense if an armed attack occurs. Israel's raid on Uganda's Entebbe Airport in 1976—to rescue the victims of an airplane hijacking by Palestinian terrorists—was also illegal under Article 51. More at: http://xrl.us/bfq4r7
23. IAM OVER joyed with the outcome ,BUT
(10.16.09)
iam very pesemestic when it comes to the future , and the way israel and the zionist will piss on the world and especialy the UN
24. Corrupt UN Vote
Timberwolf ,   Bristol, UK   (10.16.09)
This just goes to show the UN is run for the benefit of Islamic terrorists and their cowardly secular buddies. It is worthless.
25. United States and European Union Fund the UN
USA   (10.16.09)
United States contributes 22 percent of the UN budget and EU about 25 percent as well. So they fund this circus and humilation of the Jewish people and still they expect and demand Israel to take steps for "peace" while condemning it for defending its people. However, what does it take for Israel to realize, there is no hope in the West, these countries are weakened, they are becoming muslim themselves, with muslim populations increasing every year esepcially in Europe. It's over, countries are chaning, the world is changing, wake the f...k up.
26. There are currently 52 million muslims in Europe
usa   (10.16.09)
The german government said that number is expected to double in the next 20 years to 104 million muslims. Forget the West, forget the EU, it's over for them.
27. JUSTICE HAS TO BE RENDERED
MAHMOOD ,   LONDON-UK   (10.16.09)
6 countries which opposed the bill and 11 who abstained will also be answerable to this crime.They are basically part and parcel of the crime. May the wrath of Almighty fall on the perperators of this human tragedy!!!
28. FOLLOW THINGS IN PROPER SEQUENCE,SARAH B.....#10
MAHMOOD ,   LONDON-UK   (10.16.09)
Don't be evasive and don't change the subject.It is a day when you should bow down and repent.Human justice will be followed by Heavenly wrath on these criminals.
29. to the enemies of the nation of israel
zionist forever   (10.16.09)
what a joke, noor the palestinian, the turkish and other "great friends" happy but my friends we dont give a damm about this report we sufferd 8 year of terror attack rocket towards our towens and we didnt do anything, and all the great nation did say a word. cos jewish blood is cheap right? at the end the god of israel will show the enemies of israel justic
30. #23 It's okay, I feel your pain.
Noor ,   Palestine   (10.16.09)
But, regardless of whether the necessary legal procedures are initiated, the Palestinians emerge as victorious, and the Israeli fascist war criminals the big losers. Why? Because now, Israel horrrific crimes are being exposed, for the first time, to the ENTIRE WORLD. The Palestinians have been waiting for this for decades, now.
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