Opinion  Ron Ben-Yishai
War crime in the south
Ron Ben-Yishai
Published: 07.04.11, 23:27
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1. Where are all te anti_Isreal NGO"s now
John Phee ,   Sydney, AUSTRALIA   (04.07.11)
Silence is golden. Golden because there is money in it for NOT making noise about this.
2. Goldstone? UN? In Hiding?
Jake in Jerusalem ,   Jerusalem, Israel   (04.08.11)
Firing an anti-tank missile deliberately aimed at a large, yellow Israeli school bus is a WAR CRIME and a CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY? The only two people aboard were injured, the youngster critically. The bus had just released about 50 children who thus escaped the destruction on the bus. Where are Goldstone and the crooks and terrorists of the UN? "Hypocrisy" doesn't even begin to describe these despicable characters! Shame on you!
3. DOES GOLDSTONE CARE
ALEXI   (04.08.11)
GOLDSTONE DINES WITH HIS WIFE IN LONDON WHILE HIS INACCURATE REPORT DAMNS ISRAEL BEFORE THE UN and the world. Goldstone foolishly made remarks to the washington post which partially contradicts his report but still refuses to refute his report. So goldstone will soon face civil actions in the US and israel, doubt in the US since his op plainly contradict his report, and the ire of gillerman and yishai who spoke to him and had the impression that goldstone would revoke or reduce his report. He is now finished. The only sympathy he enjoys is with the UN and moslem world. Good luck with that.
4. is it war or crime ?/
(04.08.11)
if it is a crime evry one is under the international law if it is war it will be suffering to evry one if it is both it will be both suffering and under the law what ever it will be the winner will be no one
5. I'm filing a lawsuit in the US against Hamas,PA,UN
EZ ,   US   (04.08.11)
These people are murderers. Turkey should be taken to court as well. They are behind the incitement from IHH and ALL accomplices (idiots put their names on the list) will be named in the lawsuit collectively and then individually. Let see these crooked Nazis defend themselves in court. Ain't happening. Mist won't show up, be marked guilty and filed as terrorists. Complete inhumane animals.
6. man .. u have a hard childhood
Jalal ,   Gaza   (04.08.11)
every time i read ur writing i feel that u r a war dreamer every time u justify war, u just draw how to start a war sorry that's my view but any how .. every time i still enjoy ur articles
7. an ugly new page has been turned...
rob ,   orangevale USA   (04.08.11)
To hell with Goldstone and ridiculous 'outsider' reports like his. How can Israel now gather the momentum of world opinion to finally kill this terrorist organization and it's minions. We see there is not any benefit whatsoever to waiting around to be attacked. With the considerable resources available to Israel, I would humbly suggest that the state NOW get VERY aggressive. The world isn't going to smile when it hears of this school-bus incident, and I suggest you make a statement for the world, that its GOING to end, if every terrorist must be targeted and killed. Show them we can make it happen. Kol hakavod Shalom Rob
8. EVERY QASSAM OR GRAD has been a war crime
Zvi   (04.08.11)
Every one of them has been randomly deliberately fired into civilian areas. There is no possible justification for any of them.
9. We were merciful
Ali Booby Hamas H.Q ,   Rats mest Gaza   (04.08.11)
In order to display our goodwill, we waited until the bulk of the children had left the bus, then we fired the missile at a clearly marked school bus Alah hu Zift
10. Whatever Israel does, our enemies will
jason white ,   afula, israel   (04.08.11)
call it a "war crime". So let us hit the gaza strip and bring death and destruction to our enemies and their families. Damned if we do and damned if we don't.
11. Hamas made a mistake
leoblue ,   NYC, US   (04.08.11)
They obvioisly thought they were shooting at an Israeli tank that was painted yellow and made to look like a schoolbus.
12. Dr Ben Alofs
Emma ,   London   (04.08.11)
Where is your condemnation of this attack? Had it been the other way around you would have been the first to say something.
13. ABFT!
emanon ,   USA   (04.08.11)
It's about time someone started directing the phrase "War Crimes" at the terrorstinians! Will the United Arab Nations . . . excuse me, I mean the UN . . . actually attempt sanctions against them? No. When convenient, the terrorstinians suddenly remember "We have no nation, we are not part of the UN and you can't do anything to us".
14. The UN Feed, clothe, school and support the Hamas terrorists
Jonny ,   South Africa   (04.08.11)
The UN Feed, clothe, school and support the Hamas terrorists. They, together with their lackeys from South Africa, Goldstone and that Peace Price hypocrate Tutu should be barred from the USA on the grounds that they are consorting with and giving help to a terrorist organisation who are hell bent on destroying not only a memeber UN state, but also an entire religious race.
15. Arabs attacking civilians....so what's new?
Ron Liebman ,   USA   (04.08.11)
16. And when Israel fires on ambulances...
Mikesailor ,   Miami, FL   (04.08.11)
both in Gaza and in Lebanon, that is excusable? There were documented reports of the IDF firing on clearly marked ambulances. Was this also a war crime? Of course it was. But the IDF was never investigated nor censured for their actions. The attack on a 'clearly-marked' school bus is just as despicable as the attack on ambulances, yet, only this latest attack has provoked the ire of the public and media. Why? Perhaps Hamas will ape tyhe IDF and use the stupid excuse that the school bus was somehow involved in the latest attack onn Gaza. Furthermore, there is no such thing as a 'surgical' strike. Collateral damage is always to be expected but somehow the mere word 'surgical', a criminal euphemism if there ever was one, is supposed to obviate the need for hard questions. Targeted assassinations, a euphemism for cold-blooded murder, is another one.
17. Where is the Israeli PR machine?
Maurice ,   Montreal   (04.08.11)
Nothing in the news here in Canada fr example about this bus attack. Why isn't Israel shouting loud and clear in old major countries around the world about this atrocity? Come on guys wake up and comunicate this to all the news channels that count.
18. school bus
ernie ,   miami, usa   (04.08.11)
Where are the Dursons "justifying" this obscene act?
19. ???
Uzziel   (04.08.11)
Can you tell me WHY THE HELL you call the elimination of terrorists "assasination" ? If you are jewish or a citizen of the State of Israel that claims to be of jewish nature if you kill some one who comes to kill you THIS IS NOT "ASSASINATION" !
20. Emma # 12 re Ben Alofs
Stephen in New York   (04.08.11)
Ben Alofs is a well-known Marxist propagandist in the service of worldwide jihad. He has an adversarial relationship with truth. He’s also a doctor who toils away at the humanitarian crisis he finds in his mind in Gaza.
21. 16 Ambulances used to carry weapons and terrorists
(04.08.11)
22. #16 It's on you tube
Ish Kabibble ,   Delancey   (04.09.11)
Simply Google Video "Terrorists use ambulances", quite a few examples, which show them getting in and out of ambulances, weapons in hand Using an Ambulance for carrying arms etal is stritcly a no no BTW- Arabs ambushed a claarly marked Jewish Ambulance convoy en-route to the Hospital on Mt. Scopus
23. So it's OK to fire on a regular bus!
Dan Ness ,   Jerusalem, Israel   (04.09.11)
So if it was a bus full of adults it would be OK for Hamas to fire on it. It is assumed that it is also OK to slit a parents throat as long as you don't do it to a 3 month old baby. When are the Jewish people going to be Normal?
24. to 11
(04.09.11)
it is a message . SMS ONLY
25. Israel need to exact 'painful price' BEFORE next atrocity
Sifter ,   Chicago   (04.10.11)
Hamas goes 'tribal', targets civilians like Itamar and school buses. IDF will have ZERO deterence unless they go tribal too. Sorry, war sucks, but your 'red lines' and 'painful price' policy doesn't work. You're not trading diamonds, BIBI, you're supposed to be defending Jewish lives! There is a REASON that Assad Senior bought 20 years of peace from his Hama foray. Too bad you haven't yet learned what old man Assad can teach you.
26. HAMAS ANARCHISTS WANT TO DESTROY !
David ,   USA   (04.10.11)
THE PEOPLE sitting in their ivory towers must understand, : Hamas, Fatah,etc are a deadly sick group, spurned by their prophet to kill & maim the infidels, plain & simple. They would burn all of Israel, if they could, these evil savages. It is proper to hit them and create as much damage as possible to prevent their dastardly thinkers of ever try to mess with the Chosen People. God didnt "choose terrorists" aiming at buses.
27. War Crimes
Joe ,   Israel   (04.10.11)
Every bullet,rocket or missle launched against a civilian target is a war crime. The problem is that Hamas is not a state and charges cannot be brought against it in a court of law.
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