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Showing posts with label Middle East - Jewish-Arab Conflict - International Law. Show all posts
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Thursday, August 14, 2014

INVESTIGATE THE UNITED NATIONS FOR WAR CRIMES - UNRWA closely involved in Gazan agression towards Israel.

By David Rubin
Is a United Nations (UN) War Crimes Commission investigating the wrong party?
 
DAVID RUBIN
Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird has sharply criticized the choice of Canadian law professor William Schabas to head a United Nations commission examining possible war crimes against Israel in Gaza, citing past biases expressed by Schabas against Israel.
 
While Minister Baird deserves praise for standing with Israel against unfair criticism from a biased UN, the real problem is in the actual purpose of the investigation.
 
Given the general facts that are known to every objective individual with a modicum of common sense, Israel is not the one that needs to be investigated. However, a commission does need to be established to get answers to several key questions:
 
Question One: Why were lethal weapons - including rockets - both stored and fired by Hamas and Islamic Jihad from United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) schools?
 
Question Two: How is it possible that the UN had no advance knowledge that their children's schools were being used as weapons storage houses and missile launching pads?
 
Question Three: If the UN did know that its facilities were being used for such military purposes, why was such activity allowed?
 
Question Four: Knowing that there was a war going on, why was there apparently little or no care taken, not by the above organizations nor by the UN itself, for the safety of the children who attended those schools?
 
Using children as human shields is a war crime.
 
The self-righteous officials at the UN seem to use the old Freudian defense mechanism of projection quite well, redirecting their own culpability by attacking their nemesis Israel.
 
Perhaps the time has come for the UN to get off its US tax-payer supported high horse and let itself be investigated for its own possible war crimes, at least as an accomplice with its buddies in Hamas and Islamic Jihad.
 
When will that commission be established?
 
 
DAVID RUBIN is former mayor of Shiloh, Israel. He is founder and president of Shiloh Israel Children’s Fund and the author of several books, including Peace for Peace and The Islamic Tsunami.  He can be found at www.DavidRubinIsrael.com or at www.ShilohIsraelChildren.org
Archive at Arutz Sheva - http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/48

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THE UN ENQUIRY ON ISRAEL
 

Cartoons - http://elderofziyon.blogspot.co.il/

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United Nations declares Israel the aggressor before the enquiry
http://elderofziyon.blogspot.co.il/2014/08/unhrc-declares-israel-aggressor-before.html#.U-zSF8og-M8

UNHCR chairman of commission of enquiry refers to Zionists as "our enemies"
http://elderofziyon.blogspot.co.il/2014/08/unhrc-goldstone-ii-chair-refers-to.html#.U-zScsog-M8

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How UNRWA contributes to Palestinian incitement
http://www.algemeiner.com/2014/04/10/how-unrwa-contributes-to-palestinian-incitement/

UNRWA sponsors Palestinian children camp Jihad -  VIDEO
http://www.israelbehindthenews.com/bin/content.cgi?ID=5666&q=1

UNITED NATIONS school textbooks promote Jihad among Palestinian children
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/138974#.U-zUzZsg-M8

ReferenceUN WATCH

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Thursday, April 3, 2014

PALESTINIANS HAVE VIOLATED 13 OF THE 15 AGREEMENTS THEY SIGNED - REPORT

 
BY:
 
Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas is in flagrant violation of at least 11 of 15 treaties, according to a special report released by the Tower.
 
The Tower released a synopsis 12 treaties Abbas is violating or potentially violating.
 
1. The Four Geneva Conventions of Aug. 12, 1949, and the First Additional Protocol
The four Geneva Conventions established rules regulating conduct in armed conflicts. The Tower says Hamas, which controls the PA legislature, is violating this treaty by carrying out attacks in schools, mosques, hospitals, and cultural centers. It also engages in acts of terrorism and frequently uses human shields.
 
2. The Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations
This treaty lays out rules for foreign diplomats, specifically diplomatic immunity. Violations of this treaty were clear when Czech police found explosives, assault rifles, and handguns at the Palestinian mission in Prague.
 
3. The Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict
These treaties established the rights of children under the age of 18 such as freedom from economic exploitation and the right to education. The treaties also specifically prohibit states from recruiting children under 18 to join their armed forces. Reports indicate that Hamas has trained at least 37,000 children ages 15-17 in urban warfare.

 4. The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women
This treaty established equality between men and women and prohibits discrimination of all forms. Palestinian violations of this treaty are rampant. Honor killings are frequent, Palestinian women are not allowed to file for divorce, and freedom in general is often restricted for Palestinian women.
 
5. The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
This treaty was established to equality for persons with disabilities. The Tower found multiple laws in Palestinian territories that explicitly discriminate against persons with disabilities.

6. The International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination
This treaty prohibits racial discrimination, including exclusions, restrictions, and preferential treatment. There is a Palestinian law in place that prohibits selling property to Jews. Violations are punishable by death. Additionally, Palestinian and Hamas officials often engage in anti-Israel and anti-Jewish incitement.
 
7. The Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment of Punishment
This treaty bans cruel and inhuman punishment of all kinds. It also mandates that each state take action to prevent acts of torture. Reports have detailed numerous violations by the PA.
 
8. The United Nations Convention Against Corruption
This treaty attempts to prevent corruption. Widespread corruption is present in the Palestinian political system.
 
9. The Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide
This treaty forbids any acts that could be prosecuted as genocide, such as killing members of a group, imposing measures to prevent births within a group, and transferring children of one group to another group. The PA has been accused on several occasions of demonizing and delegitimizing the state of Israel. It has also called for violence against Israelis.
 
10. The International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid
This convention outlawed and defined apartheid as a crime against humanity. According to the Tower, “Palestinian law bars Palestinians from selling their homes or properties to Jews. If they do so, they will be charged and face the death penalty.”
 
11. The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
This treaty requires states to ensure freedom and dignity in both civil and political spheres. Reports have found incitement and propaganda are rampant in the PA. Violations of the civil and political rights of people in the Palestinian territories such as forced child marriages and honor killings are widespread.
 
12. The International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights
This treaty established that states would respect the right to individual self-determination in areas such as economic, social, and cultural development. PA violations have been reported on numerous occasions. Assets have been unlawfully seized, and freedoms of expression, media, and assembly have been under attack.