Israelis doing business as usual... Embassies are not out of reach
After watching the devastation in Lebanon during the last month, and also the permanent incursions in Gaza, I've been wondering if anything would stop the Israelis from chasing Palestinians or Lebanese wherever these may be. They bomb whatever parts of Lebanon they want, they bomb whatever areas of Gaza where they think there's someone they want to kill - so much for charging Palestinians in a Court of Law, if you think they're guilty of something then just kill them!! - and while doing this they kill hundreds of innocent by-standers in Lebanon or Palestine.
Even if they go everywhere in their search for alleged terrorists, or even collaborators or sponsors of alleged terrorrists, I was still surprise to find out that this thursday the Israelis entered the UK Embassy to capture a Palestinian...
If a Government sends the Police inside Embassies, then it means they really do not stop at nothing!
A person that seeks asylum is handed over just like that??? So much for International Law..
Sure the UK is a close ally of Israel, so maybe that was not the best choice to ask for asylum.. But what the UK should have done was to have a court decide whether this person should be granted asylum, and let the Israelis explain why they want them by asking an extradition.
But why bother right? Why give people the right to defend themselves in Court?
It seems like they're becoming something of the past, either in Israel or the US - remember Guantanamo? they're still there and no trial. Fortunately the Supreme Court (even with a majority of Conservative judges) ruled that the President does not get to make the rules by which the Gunatanamo prisioners are 'judged' (they wouldn't be judged att all if Bush had his way, since they wouldn't show evidence so people couldn't argue they're innocent, but fortunately one branch of Power is still rational in this Country thank God).
Let's hope that this and future Governments in Israel restrain themselves from attacking their neighbors including Lebanon.
It's sad but true that in a western-like country like Israel, Governments are unpopullar when they're seen as weak on war -which is the case of the Lebanon bombings - when people should be angry at the fact that 800 or more Lebanese were killed for any reason. Sure, they wanted more Hezbollah fighters killed, not civilians, but would that solve anything? And is there a way to start a war and not kill inocent civilians? Of course not.
Bush was popular when it seemed like the war in Iraq was easy. Now he is unpopular as ever because people realised - a few year late, but sill they realised- that war is never easy. For sure not in the Middle East.
Is it too difficult to realize that democratic countries such as the US or Israel are not supposed to start wars??
That was what Hitler did, and here we are trying to prevent other supposed Hitlers from starting war, so we start it ourselves?? Isn't that contradictory, to say the least?
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Israeli police storm UK embassy, capture Palestinian
POSTED: 5:42 p.m. EDT, August 31, 2006
JERUSALEM (AP) -- Israeli police commandos stormed the British Embassy late Thursday and captured a Palestinian man holed up inside. There were no reports of injuries.
The man had burst into the embassy several hours earlier, demanding political asylum.
After capturing the man, Israeli police said he was wielding a plastic gun. Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld earlier had said the man was armed with a pistol.
Even if they go everywhere in their search for alleged terrorists, or even collaborators or sponsors of alleged terrorrists, I was still surprise to find out that this thursday the Israelis entered the UK Embassy to capture a Palestinian...
If a Government sends the Police inside Embassies, then it means they really do not stop at nothing!
A person that seeks asylum is handed over just like that??? So much for International Law..
Sure the UK is a close ally of Israel, so maybe that was not the best choice to ask for asylum.. But what the UK should have done was to have a court decide whether this person should be granted asylum, and let the Israelis explain why they want them by asking an extradition.
But why bother right? Why give people the right to defend themselves in Court?
It seems like they're becoming something of the past, either in Israel or the US - remember Guantanamo? they're still there and no trial. Fortunately the Supreme Court (even with a majority of Conservative judges) ruled that the President does not get to make the rules by which the Gunatanamo prisioners are 'judged' (they wouldn't be judged att all if Bush had his way, since they wouldn't show evidence so people couldn't argue they're innocent, but fortunately one branch of Power is still rational in this Country thank God).
Let's hope that this and future Governments in Israel restrain themselves from attacking their neighbors including Lebanon.
It's sad but true that in a western-like country like Israel, Governments are unpopullar when they're seen as weak on war -which is the case of the Lebanon bombings - when people should be angry at the fact that 800 or more Lebanese were killed for any reason. Sure, they wanted more Hezbollah fighters killed, not civilians, but would that solve anything? And is there a way to start a war and not kill inocent civilians? Of course not.
Bush was popular when it seemed like the war in Iraq was easy. Now he is unpopular as ever because people realised - a few year late, but sill they realised- that war is never easy. For sure not in the Middle East.
Is it too difficult to realize that democratic countries such as the US or Israel are not supposed to start wars??
That was what Hitler did, and here we are trying to prevent other supposed Hitlers from starting war, so we start it ourselves?? Isn't that contradictory, to say the least?
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Israeli police storm UK embassy, capture Palestinian
POSTED: 5:42 p.m. EDT, August 31, 2006
JERUSALEM (AP) -- Israeli police commandos stormed the British Embassy late Thursday and captured a Palestinian man holed up inside. There were no reports of injuries.
The man had burst into the embassy several hours earlier, demanding political asylum.
After capturing the man, Israeli police said he was wielding a plastic gun. Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld earlier had said the man was armed with a pistol.
posted by Daniel Carapau at 7:05 PM
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