[DISCUSSION] The Israel/Palestine Situation

[iup=3547126]Qikz[/iup] wrote:Sadly as it's only a long term ceasefire and sounds exactly like the one from 2012 I see this all flaring up again in a few years.

...One of the more curious moments in Israel’s Operation Protective Edge came on July 20, when a live microphone at Fox News caught U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry commenting sarcastically on Israel’s military action. “It’s a hell of a pinpoint operation,” Kerry said. “It’s a hell of a pinpoint operation.”

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That the Israelis explained the civilian casualty toll by saying the neighborhood’s noncombatant population had been ordered to stay in their homes and were used as human shields by Hamas reinforced the belief among some senior U.S. officers that artillery fire into Shujaiya was indiscriminate.

“Listen, we know what it’s like to kill civilians in war,” said the senior U.S. officer. “Hell, we even put it on the front pages. We call it collateral damage. We absolutely try to minimize it, because we know it turns people against you. Killing civilians is a sure prescription for defeat. But that’s not what the IDF did in Shujaiya on July 21. Human shields? C’mon, just own up to it.”

UN Admits: UN Schools and Facilities Used by Hamas Terrorists

A United Nations Board of Inquiry (BoI) into the use and attack on UN facilities during Operation Protective Edge in Gaza, has been completed. The report itself is supposed to remain secret, but the cover letters attached to the report have been released. The Board of Inquiry is a separate entity from Schabas’s Commission of Inquiry. Israel refused to cooperate with the Schabas inquiry, which was openly biased against Israel. Israel fully cooperated with the UN Board of Inquiry. The UN inquiry found that “Israeli actions” killed 44 Arabs and injured 227 more who were inside UN premises. Israel investigated that incident.

But what was more important was that the report finally confirmed Israel’s claims that UN facilities were repeatedly being used by Hamas and other terrorists to store weapons and attack Israel. In one school, 20 rockets were discovered.



UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon writes in his cover letter of his dismay in discovering that 3 UN schools were used to store weapons, and more seriously, two of the UN schools were used to launch attacks at Israel and Israeli troops.

Ban Ki Moon writes,

“On the discovery by the United Nations of weaponry on United Nations premises, I am dismayed that Palestinian militant groups would put United Nations schools at risk by using them to hide their arms. The three schools at which weaponry was found were empty at the time and were not being used as shelters. However, the fact that they were used by those involved in the fighting to store their weaponry and, in two cases, probably to fire from is unacceptable.”

Israel’s spokesman at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that Israel received a copy of the report.

ProPoser wrote:Mr Loverman!

Cal wrote:

Schabas

Cal wrote:

UN Admits: UN Schools and Facilities Used by Hamas Terrorists

A United Nations Board of Inquiry (BoI) into the use and attack on UN facilities during Operation Protective Edge in Gaza, has been completed. The report itself is supposed to remain secret, but the cover letters attached to the report have been released. The Board of Inquiry is a separate entity from Schabas’s Commission of Inquiry. Israel refused to cooperate with the Schabas inquiry, which was openly biased against Israel. Israel fully cooperated with the UN Board of Inquiry. The UN inquiry found that “Israeli actions” killed 44 Arabs and injured 227 more who were inside UN premises. Israel investigated that incident.

But what was more important was that the report finally confirmed Israel’s claims that UN facilities were repeatedly being used by Hamas and other terrorists to store weapons and attack Israel. In one school, 20 rockets were discovered.



UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon writes in his cover letter of his dismay in discovering that 3 UN schools were used to store weapons, and more seriously, two of the UN schools were used to launch attacks at Israel and Israeli troops.

Ban Ki Moon writes,

“On the discovery by the United Nations of weaponry on United Nations premises, I am dismayed that Palestinian militant groups would put United Nations schools at risk by using them to hide their arms. The three schools at which weaponry was found were empty at the time and were not being used as shelters. However, the fact that they were used by those involved in the fighting to store their weaponry and, in two cases, probably to fire from is unacceptable.”

Israel’s spokesman at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that Israel received a copy of the report.

http://www.jewishpress.com/news/breakin ... 015/04/27/

Still, never mind, let's all put on our Pallywood wristbands, blame it all on Israel and stand in idiot solidarity with those Hamas terrorists, eh? I hear Ed Miliband is planning to do just that, by working with Hamas to achieve a two-state solution in the region. Good luck with that, Ed, because I'm not sure that Hamas actually want such an outcome - I've heard they'd rather wipe Israel off the face of the map - but, hey, whatevs.

Cal wrote:Article by Jewish Press on Hamas rockets in schools…

Still, never mind, let's all put on our Pallywood wristbands,

blame it all on Israel and stand in idiot solidarity with those Hamas terrorists, eh?

I hear Ed Miliband is planning to do just that, by working with Hamas to achieve a two-state solution in the region.

Good luck with that, Ed, because I'm not sure that Hamas actually want such an outcome - I've heard they'd rather wipe Israel off the face of the map - but, hey, whatevs.

Saint of Killers wrote:Did they have anything to say on the UN schools which were being used as shelters as opposed to munitions storage, yet were still targeted by Israel?