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Re: Someone has to say it I'll try to illustrate Israel's commitment to peace.
"Washington's commitment to enhancing terror was illustrated again in December 2001, when it vetoed a Security Council resolution calling for implementation of the Mitchell Plan and dispatch of international monitors to oversee reduction of violence, the most effective means as generally recognized but opposed by Israel and regularly blocked by Washington. The veto took place during a twenty-one day period of "calm" - a period in which only one Israeli soldier was killed, along with twenty-one Palestinians including eleven children, and in which there were sixteen Israeli incursions in to areas under Palestinian control. Ten days before the veto, the United States boycotted - and thus undermined - an international conference in Geneva that once again concluded that the Fourth Geneva Convention applies to the occupied territories, so that virtually everything the United States and Israel do there is a "grave breach" - a "war crime" in simple terms. The conference specifically declared the U.S-funded Israeli settlements to be illegal and condemned the practice of "willful killing, torture, unlawful deportation, willful depriving of the rights of fair and regular trial, extensive destruction and appropriation of property... carried out unlawfully and wantonly.""
That's an excerpt from Noam Chomsky's excellent book "Middle East Illusions."
The record is extensive.
Here's a good article from yesterday:
»story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=s···16114236
Here are some more links:
»www.palestinecampaign.org/archiv···?xid=462
»www.inq7.net/wnw/2002/aug/07/wnw_2-1.htm
»home.mindspring.com/~fontenelles···sk23.htm
»Palestinian P2P
If you don't like my sources there are plenty of others across the board. |
