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Nobel winners petition Israel to outlaw targeted killing
 JERUSALEM - Hundreds of Israeli peace activists, joined by three foreign Nobel laureates, Monday asked the nations high court to rule against targeted assassinations carried out by the army in the Palestinian territories, saying the attacks were killing civilians.
| The Paleos kill civilians too, as I recall, and they favor women and children, the IDF being a little out of their league. |
The petition, signed by 10 peace groups and 200 individuals, urged the supreme court to rule immediately on the issue in light of last weeks Israeli fire in Gazas Beit Hanun that killed 19 people, mostly women and children. How many more children need to die before the high court judges rule on the matter, it said. If a ruling is not handed down immediately, this will cause the deaths of more innocent people, as was the case several days ago in Beit Hanun, a town in northern Gaza, it said.
| Unfortunate, and no one feels worse than the trigger-pullers on that one. |
| The signatories included Harold Pinter, winner of the Nobel literature prize in 2005, and Betty Williams and Mairead McGuire, the founders of an organisation that promoted peace in Northern Ireland and who won the Nobel peace prize in 1976. |
he signatories included Harold Pinter, winner of the Nobel literature prize in 1985 and all round wanker, and Betty Williams and Mairead McGuire, the founders of an organization that promoted peace in Northern Ireland and who won the Nobel peace prize in 1976.
| Nice job then, nut jobs since. |
Since the outbreak of the Palestinian uprising in September 2000, the Israeli military has killed hundreds of Palestinians in targeted strikes, aimed at hitting militants but often leaving civilians dead.
| Since the brave Heroes of Islam have a disturbing tendency to hide amongst civilians. |
More than 300 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza in Israeli strikes since late June, after a soldier was seized by militant groups in the coastal strip.
| No word yet on whether Harold Pinter will intervene on his behalf. |
A recent report by the socialist group Physicians for Human Rights said that more than 60 percent of those killed were civilians and more than 20 percent minors.
The targeted assassinations have been condemned by the international community and by human rights groups inside the Jewish state.
| Few of whom are at any risk of being blown up on a bus or in a pizza parlor. |
In January 2002, Israels supreme court rejected the first appeal over the strikes, filed by an Israeli Arab MP. A second appeal over the policy was filed more than four years ago in April 2002, with the justices yet to issue a ruling.
| There we go, just string this one out just like the last one. |
Posted by: Steve White 2006-11-14 |
