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Rights group urges Israel to end Gaza blockade
Associated Press
Published: 18.01.10, 09:20
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1. Gaza Blockade
Neal Rothner ,   Hashmonaim, Israel   (01.18.10)
Amnisty has an issue about the blockade. We have an issue of Gilad Schaliet and by the way also Quasams etc. Neal the Hasmonean
2. Do human rights groups ever try to help Jews?
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Do they consider Jews human?
3. Egypt is responsible for their Gazan brothers
Can't blame Israel ,   for Arab infighting   (01.18.10)
4. israel the war criminal
masjnoe   (01.18.10)
israel has to begin to recognize hammas and pull out of gaza and lift the blokkade.
5. More drivel !
Janice Cohen ,   Jerusalem Israel   (01.18.10)
6. Amnesty suffocates Israel
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7. one ide of the fence is gaza the other side of the fence
ghostq   (01.18.10)
is Israel and nop Israel doesn't have to let in her teritory criminals, and no Amnesty isn't to the well fair this UN org is so full of Muslims it's lost his main goal and porpose, they people who realy neads care from them never got it, they just like to write reports which means nothing. and Israel still get rockets, so nop and nop again.
8. to #2 no they don't cause they don't interfere
ghostq   (01.18.10)
in Yemen, the situation in the ehtiopian jews was Israeli intiative, not Amnesty, but it's not just jews it's also Haitian south american in china(children r being killed for being girls) or children slaves, in africa darfur- when there was genocide and Muslims raped chritian girls only after 5 years they mad report and didnothing in rowanda still we don't know the situation in Tibet lack of freidom, in Russia people sold for prostitution still but they I reckon they don't care about the real serious one only in cases they find easy way to make reaport but they will do nothing.
9. to #4 right and chickens can really fly.
ghostq   (01.18.10)
if the UN declaired Hamas as terror org in the 90's y whould Israel contridict UN definition.
10. #4 The Gazans are the war criminals
Sharona ,   Jerusalem Israel   (01.18.10)
10,000 rockets against Israel = 10,000 war crimes. And they commit war crimes against themselves by using women and children as human shields. Nobody recognizes Hamas as anything but terrorist thugs that the Gazans elected themselves. The Egyptians are smart and enforce the blockade too. Where is Amnesty on that. The Gazans live in luxury compared to Haitians and sub-Saharan Africa. Even compared to Haitians in normal times! Don't you watch the news???
11. Amnesty fundraises in Saudi Arabia
Sharona ,   Jerusalem Israel   (01.18.10)
That haven of perfect human rights. Well as long as you are male. The abuse of women in Muslim countries is far worse than anything in Gaza. Amnesty are nothing but hypocritical anti-Semites and anti-WOMEN!!!!!
12. To # 4...you need to read up a bit more...
Michel ,   Winnipeg Canada   (01.18.10)
1- Conditions for Israel's & the international community's acceptance of Hamas have been clearly communicated & are essentially based on Hamas's recognition of the existence of the Jewish State of Israel...There will NEVER be acceptance before this happens. 2- Israel pulled out of Gaza in August 2005 but of course you knew that...NO ? 3- The blockade will not be lifted until Gilad Shalit is freed & Hamas & their cronies cease all hostilities towards innocent Israeli civilians living around Gaza....It will not & should not be lifted before. Hamas has to take responsibility for the people of Gaza as any government that has been " democratically " elected by the people does. No one else is responsible for their fate !
13. Visa versa
Norman Gellman ,   Rehovot   (01.18.10)
Amnesty International is known for its ant-Israel attitude. The blockade is a result of the Palestinians own actions. When they recognize Israel as the Jewish state and stop their constant firing of missiles at Israel’s civilian population, then & only then the can the blockade be rescinded. Amnesty International seems to think that Jewish/Israeli life, freedom of fear and movement has no value.
14. #11, think you are confusing them with HRW
Danny   (01.18.10)
not that AI's donor base is any more savory
15. what's news; Haiti 1 m, Gaza 1.4 m
observer   (01.18.10)
Amnesty International says Egypt's sealing of Gaza enforces Israel's claim that the blockade targets Gaza militants.
16. Terrorists, Criminals need Amnesty
DT ,   TA Israel   (01.18.10)
but normal people and our government should ignore Amnesty for their prejudice, bigotry and a tool of the Left
17. The story is simple. Israel has left Gaza completely…
Ron B. ,   Lod   (01.18.10)
The passages were open. Money was sent to Gaza. We suggested aid in many ways – economically, medically and otherwise… Still I have not heard until now a single person who could explain to us reasonably: why are they firing rockets against Israel? The most disruptive force in the Israeli-Arab conflict is Iran. There is no international pressure at all on Iran to withdraw its tentacles from the Palestinian territories, and to stop using Hamas and Hezbollah to torpedo any movement towards peace barely as soon as it begins. More about Iran at : http://xrl.us/bebdkm
18. Amnesty in a tizzy
Rafael ,   Yerushalayim Israel   (01.18.10)
Organizations like Amnesty just cant' stand it that a real humanitarian crisis is taking place on the other side of the world that has nothing to do with Israel, and doesn't involve "oppressed" Arabs. They will do anything and everything to return international attention to their pet cause - Hamastan in Gaza.
19. Amnesty: Israel must ..........
David ,   Karmiel, Israel   (01.18.10)
The last time I looked Egypt was building a wall to keep the Gazans out and to stop the terrorists from smuggling in their wares to destroy Israel! So why only Israel, Amenesty? When is Amnesty International going to demand that Hamas free Gilad Shalit? Ah, I forgot, Gilad is a Jew and Amnesty doesn't care about Jews! Amnesty International has lost all credibility except of course in the "Hate Israel World. What is that slime of an organization going about Human Rights in Iran, Saudi Arabia and the countries where people are murdered at the whim of a regime?
20. when will amnesty say terror attacks against Israel must end
zionist forever   (01.18.10)
Israel AND Egypt are blockading Gaza. Israel at least is letting food & medicine in, its Egypt that stopped George Galloway in. Israel is stopping concrete and other building materials through because things like the concrete are not used to build houses for ordinary people they are used to build tunnels which bring in weapons to use against Israel. When are Amnesty going to be condemning Egypt for their role in the Gaza blockade? When was the last time Amnesty condemned a rocket fired against Sderot or a suicide bombing? To groups like this Hamas are freedom fighters so its ok to turn a blind eye now again. Israel though is occupying Hamas land so it deserves everything it gets and must be condemned if it retaliates or takes stops certain materials into Gaza to defend itself. Lets make a deal with them, they come with their children and spend some time living in Sderort and in return we will start talking about an end of the blockade. Are those foreign do gooders willing to put the lives of their families at risk for a political cause?
21. Not only Gaza
Mike Van Harris ,   Antwerp Belgium   (01.18.10)
ISRAEL MUST END BLOCKADE OF GAZA AND MUST END ITS OCCUPATION TO THE WEST BANK .
22. 1942 : Amnesty Intl. : Bombing of Germany is War Crime !
Yisrael ,   Jerusalem, ISRAEL   (01.18.10)
Yo Amnesty ! We tried smiling and waving with Hamas, but that didn't work ! Of course, if we were nice, they would be nice ! Can I get what you've been smoking ?
23. It's about time that............
tiki ,   belgium   (01.18.10)
Amnesty and other GNO's like them STOP repeating the 'same mantra over and over again! It's about time that those groups start calling a 'spade a spade and point to the RESPONSABILITIES of the Pal's themselves to start solving their own MAN MADE pligh't, caused and nurtured by Arab leaders and NGO's like themselves. This MAN MADE 'Palestinian Problem could have been solved years ago if the Arabs/UN/NGO's would have let them. The jews, who have the 'honour of being the 'champions of fugitives over the CENTURIES, always did and never took the 'role of victim (they always were), as an excuse to sit and wait for help, bomb half the planet or desturb the aviation of the world, but always started rebuilding straight away.
24. to #15 Haiti dead total is 700,000
ghostq   (01.18.10)
I don't know what kind of info you got but this call catastrophe, and your way of thinking is distorted, this number is confirmed, and many didn't got proper burial cause entire families gone and still exist under the rubble dead bodies r rottening in the streets cause none survive to burey them gangs lutting lil food they get and no running water, so stop the pali whining they celebrated Hamas party that cost 2 miliion dolars. sound like they r not poor ot needy just whiny.
25. just more hamas propaganda
tom ,   toronto, canada   (01.18.10)
why doesn't amnesty mention hamas' human rights record? they don't respect a single right for their own population, let alone israel's, and yet amnesty cannot or will not criticize them. unfortunately, israel's hasbarah department is nowhere to be seen, yet again.
26. to 23: Calling a 'spade a spade'
Chardon Bleu ,   Geneva Switzerland   (01.18.10)
Should't this also hold for the fact of the systematic ethnic cleansing of Palestine before and after 1948 in the name of the Zionist ideology, and for the fact that this same Zionist ideology had served as a main source from which in the 30s of last century the basic elements of the Aryan ideology of German racial superiority were derived?
27. #2
Resistor   (01.18.10)
Jews do not need help, annon. They control everything already!
28. Open borders if Amnesty relocates to Sderot
Logic ,   Israel   (01.18.10)
29. The reality is
Resistor   (01.18.10)
30. The reality is
Resistor   (01.18.10)
"The reality is that the blockade does not target armed groups, but rather, punishes Gaza's entire population by restricting the entry of food, medical supplies, educational equipment and building materials," said Malcom Smart, the group's Middle East and North Africa director. This is the crux of the problem. How can school books, crayons, hair conditioner, pasta etc be lethal weapons to be used against Israel? Tell me, please. Mark Regev is a member of the Richard Cranium Society. He will tell you that the Israeli government now says that 1+1=3. I watched him deny the use of white phospherous by the IDA/IDF.
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