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Will the ICC grant the Palestinian Authority the right to pursue War Crimes against Israel?
Background: The international criminal court is considering whether the Palestinian Authority is "enough like a state" for it to bring a case alleging that Israeli troops committed war crimes in the recent assault on Gaza.
The deliberations would potentially open the way to putting Israeli military commanders in the dock at The Hague over the campaign, which claimed more than 1,300 lives, and set an important precedent for the court over what cases it can hear.
As part of the process the court's head of jurisdictions, part of the office of the prosecutor, is examining every international agreement signed by the PA to decide whether it behaves - and is regarded by others - as operating like a state.
Following talks with the Arab League's head, Amr Moussa, and senior PA officials, moves have accelerated inside the court to deliver a ruling on whether it may be able to insist on jurisdiction over alleged war crimes perpetrated in Gaza, with a decision from the prosecutor's office expected within "months, not years".
Read more here:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/mar/02/israel-war-crimes-gaza
Question will suspend on Dec 21st but it must be decided in favor of Palestine by Dec. 22 to qualify as a YES.
Settlement date is fixed.
The deliberations would potentially open the way to putting Israeli military commanders in the dock at The Hague over the campaign, which claimed more than 1,300 lives, and set an important precedent for the court over what cases it can hear.
As part of the process the court's head of jurisdictions, part of the office of the prosecutor, is examining every international agreement signed by the PA to decide whether it behaves - and is regarded by others - as operating like a state.
Following talks with the Arab League's head, Amr Moussa, and senior PA officials, moves have accelerated inside the court to deliver a ruling on whether it may be able to insist on jurisdiction over alleged war crimes perpetrated in Gaza, with a decision from the prosecutor's office expected within "months, not years".
Read more here:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/mar/02/israel-war-crimes-gaza
Question will suspend on Dec 21st but it must be decided in favor of Palestine by Dec. 22 to qualify as a YES.
Settlement date is fixed.
Settlement details:As reported by a major mainstream news source.
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Created Mon 2nd Mar 3:55pm PST by conspiracy2riot
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Hamas still continues to fire rockets and mortars directly into civilian populations with the goal of creating civilian deaths, destruction, and terror, hitting a high school the other day. Over 110 rockets and mortars since the "cease fire"
http://budurl.com/pavz
Hamas has consistently used it's population as human shields, stockpiling weapons in homes, mosques, hospitals, and schools.
http://budurl.com/gwbn
Hamas tortures their own people in Gaza
http://budurl.com/gxdj
During the war, Hamas used Shifa hospital for a bunker and command center
http://budurl.com/ax8k
They cynically (and illegally) horde weapons and anti-aircraft guns in a mosque
http://budurl.com/px4g
As usual, these war crimes will be ignored. The Arab block of the UN and their obedient European lackeys wouldn't have it any other way.
Israel rejects charges by Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and U.N. agencies that its January invasion of the Gaza Strip inflicted civilian death and destruction on an unjustifiable scale.
Now, some of the Israeli soldiers who took part say they were urged by commanders to shoot first and worry later about sorting out civilians from combatants. Accordingly, they say, the force went into Gaza with guns blazing. In print and video testimony published on Wednesday by the activist group Breaking the Silence, the 30 soldiers say the Israeli army's imperative was to minimise its own casualties to ensure Israeli public support for the operation.
"Better hit an innocent than hesitate to target an enemy," is a typical description by one unidentified soldier of his understanding of instructions repeated at pre-invasion briefings and during the 22-day operation, from Dec. 27 to Jan. 18.
"If you're not sure, kill. Fire power was insane. We went in and the booms were just mad," says another. "The minute we got to our starting line, we simply began to fire at suspect places.
"In urban warfare, anyone is your enemy. No innocents."
http://www.reuters.com/article/homepageCrisis/idUSLE682552._CH_.2400
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