Well well ..... Amnesty International (AI) comes around:
http://freedom4um.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=163415
Israel Accused of War Crimes in West Bank
Amnesty International's (AI) new report is blunt. It's titled "Trigger-Happy: Israel's Use of Excessive Force in the West Bank." It begins saying:
"Out of nowhere many soldiers jumped out and ambushed Samir. They shot him first in the leg, yet he managed to run away towards the village."
"But how far can an injured child run? Twenty, maybe 30, metres? They could have easily arrested him, especially when he was injured, but instead they shot him in the back with live ammunition."
"To me, this is premeditated murder." Killing 16-year old Samir was no isolated incident. Israel's entire history is blood-drenched.
It includes multiple crimes of war, against humanity and genocide. It's been ongoing since 1948. It shows no signs of ending. Israeli viciousness knows no limits.........
I try to be polite and steer clear of Jewish subjects here (not elsewhere). Some claim to find exposure of Zionist crimes offensive, but times are (Thank God) changing.
Up until about 1988 it was unheard of to criticize Israel or stateside Jewish power abuse, e.g. in the form of AIPAC. Don't know what AIPAC is? You might want to look it up. It's a private organization working as the unregistered agent of a foreign country, calling shots it's had no right to for decades in Washington. It has indeed had carte blanche in setting ameriKa's vicious Mideast policy for many years.
The very suggestion that Israel or "the Jewish people" be held to the same standards of behavior as everybody else was mocked to scorn and silence by accusations of "anti-Semitism." Slowly, painfully, stingily, the world is coming to admit it's been dead wrong about this.
Amnesty International is a venerable 53-year-old human rights organzation. When as a young man approaching age 25 I started trying to reach out for reality, AI was one of the few things I found to cling to in terms of people or groups working for justice where it was deserving and lacking beyond the headlines. I don't regret spending time with AI, ordering and sharing its publications, immersing myself in its dreary reports of political cruelty abroad. Oddly, AI's only domestic project seemed to be support for the "Wilmington 10", a group of blacks accused of crimes they supposedly hadn't committed in that fair Southern city. Being yet racially stupid and clueless I thought nothing of it, much less recognized it for what it was -- as a politically correct fraud.
AI's intentions have always been good -- I don't think we can take that away from the org. And in view of the volatility of the Jewish issue for so long, I suppose it was a matter of remaining in business for them to look the other way. Thus it's a good sign they're willing to call atrocities what they are in the formerly Holy Land now -- however mousily. Oh dear, checking AI's homepage there's no mention of it among various expressions of ultra-"liberal" political correctness.
Why should Israeli affairs be a matter of top priority to ameriKans? If you have to ask that, I fear you and I are living on different planets.... the fact is that modern so-called Israel and the US are engaged in a fornicative "special relationship" going back the better part of a century. Even the corporate cartel media (and the politicians who fornicate with them) keep telling us that our destiny is inextricably tied up with Israel's, that we will stand up for their defense to the end, blah blah. Why Israel, the 97th-largest country in the world in contrast to all the nations that have meant something good to us through time?
Don't look now, but Israel and its supporters here own the US Congress. Follow the money if you dare -- if you care to spend the relatively small time and effort it will take to see this horrible, despicable truth in high relief.
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