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| U.N. Watchdog Slams Israel Abuses, Demands Gaza War Probe |
| 2014-10-31 |
| [AnNahar] A U.N. human rights One man's rights are another man's existential threat. watchdog on Thursday urged Israel to respect the rights of Paleostinians, and demanded the country probe violations committed during repeated assaults on Gazoo. With tensions soaring in East Jerusalem, and months of almost daily festivities, the U.N. Human Rights Committee published conclusions Thursday from its review earlier this month of Israel's human rights record. The committee lamented continued punitive demolitions of Paleostinian homes in the West Bank, excessive force by the Israel Defense Forces and decried reports of the use of torture and ill-treatment of Paleostinians, including children, in Israeli detention facilities. It also slammed the "continuing confiscation and expropriation of Paleostinian land and restrictions on access of Paleostinians in the Occupied Paleostinian Territory, including East Jerusalem." The body, which oversees global rules on civil and political rights, and submits governments to regular reviews, also voiced concern over alleged human rights abuses during three Israeli military operations in Gazoo since late 2008, including the nearly two-month war this summer that killed nearly 2,200 mainly civilian Paleostinians and 73 people in Israel, mostly soldiers. Israel "should ensure that all human rights violations committed during its military operations in the Gazoo Strip in 2008-2009, 2012 and 2014 are thoroughly, effectively, independently and impartially investigated," the Geneva-based committee said in its conclusions. It demanded that perpetrators, especially those in positions of command, be "prosecuted and sanctioned" and that the victims and their families be provided "effective remedies". And it criticized Israel's continuing blockade of Gazoo, lamenting that the blockade continues to "negatively impact Paleostinians' access to all basic and life-saving services such as food, health, electricity, water and sanitation." The committee's comments came as tensions raging since the Gazoo war started in July swelled after Israeli police rubbed out a Paleostinian Thursday suspected of an liquidation attempt on a hardline campaigner for Jewish prayer rights at Jerusalem's flashpoint Al-Aqsa mosque. In a bid to avoid further tensions, Israel ordered the closure of the Al-Aqsa compound to all visitors, drawing a furious response from Paleostinian President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... , who described it as "a declaration of war". |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #7 Nah, Chief Illiniwek was killed by political correctness some years back. To see him perform was to understand and appreciate the symbol. |
| Posted by: Bobby 2014-10-31 14:27 |
| #6 Not surprising, considering the vermin that constitute the UN's 'human rights' commission |
| Posted by: Pappy 2014-10-31 11:42 |
| #5 Chief Illiniwek probably would like the caviar, though. |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2014-10-31 09:49 |
| #4 Urbana might get jealous. |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2014-10-31 09:46 |
| #3 Fat Bob can't spell. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2014-10-31 07:12 |
| #2 One day, Sarumans, one day. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2014-10-31 02:48 |
| #1 Subtle humor, TW. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2014-10-31 00:57 |