Palestine To Press War Crimes Case Against Israel
Click here for reuse options!Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas acted a day after suffering a defeat in the U.N. Security Council, which voted down a resolution setting a three-year deadline for the establishment of a Palestinian state on lands occupied by Israel.
“We want to complain. There’s aggression against us, against our land. The Security Council disappointed us,” Abbas said.
Turning to the international court at The Hague marks a major policy shift, transforming Abbas’ relations with Israel from tense to openly hostile. The ultimate goal is to pressure Israel into withdrawing from the territories and agreeing to Palestinian statehood.
The strategy carries risks, including the possibility the Palestinians themselves could be accused of war crimes over rocket attacks by the extremist group Hamas on Israeli population centers and other violence against Jewish targets.
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burqa January 2nd, 2015 at 01:11
I have known several Palestinians who are wonderful people and have long supported them in their desire for a state.
Unfortunately, they’re just not ready to join the community of nations.
They need to start prosecuting instead of electing terrorists.
They need to show they can properly administer the land they have autonomy over.
They need to become dedicated to living peacefully with their neighbors instead of being dedicated to mass murder through terrorism.
They need to start compromising instead of taking absolutist positions in which their demands only increase when the other side agrees to give them what they want.
They need to start keeping their word – already they got land for peace but haven’t held up their end of the deal.
They need far better leadership.
Right now, they’re just not ready for prime time, do not show any signs of getting there and that’s a pitiful shame.
rg9rts January 2nd, 2015 at 04:56
USS Liberty
burqa January 2nd, 2015 at 05:51
Doesn’t rebut a single point I made.
The Palestinians have elected leaders of groups dedicated to committing war crimes.
They love them that Hamas, Hezbollah, PLO, Black September, Abu Nidal Organization, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, PFLP, PFLP-GC, al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, Muslim Brotherhood, – the list is almost endless as is the list of their acts of terrorism and war crimes.
If the Palestinians get a state, it will be one dedicated to committing war crimes, so, please.
rg9rts January 2nd, 2015 at 08:09
And YOUR peoples paradise leadrs are cut from the same cloth…Begin was a terrorist bomber…Look up King David Hotel.. The Israelis should be brought to the Hague for what THEY HAVE DONE. Can you grasp that distinction. They too are thugs , murderers of the finest ilk with a long history of beating on the weak. That is the point not if the Palestinians are fit.
burqa January 2nd, 2015 at 08:30
My points, above, remain unassailed.
I know all about Begin and the King David Hotel. Rather than start at the middle, I’d prefer to start at the beginning with the founding of the Muslim Brotherhood and the murders they began committing.
Son, I’ve forgotten more on the topic of terrorism than you can possibly tell me. It is the subject of an ongoing research project that began almost 20 years ago.
Anyone can pick out specific incidents and try to build a case to support a preconceived notion. Over time, no one’s hands are clean.
But when we look at the whole picture over time we get a more proper perspective that provides a degree of balance and there’s no comparison. From the beginning the Arabs have seldom targeted military targets and in wars got whupped bad by a tiny opponent. They’re too damned stupid to know how to take a ass-whuppin’ so that’s what they keep getting until they figure out not to mess with those Israelis and to come to the peace table honestly and stop the phony approach I described above that you, so far, have avoided addressing.
The whole object here is to get the Palestinians a terrorist state from which they can continue to try to eradicate the Jews with more mass murder and war crimes.
They are not ready for prime-time, period.
They are also not fit to bring anyone to trial for war crimes, given that is what they have dedicated themselves to doing instead of becoming a nation fit to join the community of nations.
rg9rts January 2nd, 2015 at 10:24
Must be a republican twist the argument to fit your criteria…get lost
burqa January 2nd, 2015 at 11:35
Who should we indict for that King David hotel bombing?
You didn’t say.
Never got around to saying who should be indicted for the attack on the Liberty, either, come to think of it.
Need a little more time on that one?
How about a week?
Think you can come up with some names and what they did by next Friday?
rg9rts January 2nd, 2015 at 12:29
Lets agree to disagree …go your way and I’ll go mine
burqa January 2nd, 2015 at 13:15
I always agree to disagree and always go my own way. None of that following the crowd stuff for me.
I also try not to order people around.
Is a week not enough time? I’m pretty flexible and will be glad to work with you if you need more time…..
burqa January 2nd, 2015 at 08:39
Ok, who should be indicted today for the attack on the King David Hotel?
Gimme names.
Bu-ut, going with your “same cloth” theme, you willing to indict the current Palestinian leadership who are members of Hamas or who harbor Hamas? How about Hezbollah and their confederates?
Hmmmm?
After all, you made an equivalency argument…………the only difference being Begin is dead and today the current Palestinian leadership is thick with terrorists and their active supporters.
rg9rts January 2nd, 2015 at 10:22
Thugs are thugs just lioke the NYPD… Your Israeli’s have blood all over their hands too and are far from the perfect beings you want to portray them as…using your standards they aren’t good enough for statehood either.
burqa January 2nd, 2015 at 10:47
In my post below, you’ll read:
“… Anyone can pick out specific incidents and try to build a case to support a preconceived notion. Over time, no one’s hands are clean.But when we look at the whole picture over time we get a more proper perspective that provides a degree of balance and there’s no comparison. …”
So much for your invention about me claiming the Israelis are “perfect beings you want to portray them as.”
The Israelis began asking for peace the first day of statehood and instead the Arabs started a war in which was their first of many defeats. Since then that’s all they’ve done.
After losing a couple more wars they settled on letting the Palestinians dying for them and ever since, except for getting creamed in ’73, they’ve pursued a strategy of fighting to the last Palestinian.
They demanded just what the Israelis later offered, but then they turned that down, unable to take yes for an answer.
It’s just been terrorism the rest of the time and that involved murdering hundreds of Americans and our diplomats, too.
Given autonomy, they didn’t do as the Israelis did and formed a state seeking to live peacefully. It was just more terrorism and war crimes and diversion of funds to build a country to more of the same.
But it’s nice to agree and when you say “…using your standards they aren’t good enough for statehood either….” it appears you agree with me on the suitability of the Palestinians at this time for statehood.
rg9rts January 2nd, 2015 at 11:04
And what have you done??? You brand an entire society for the behavior of the few… Why don’t you ask the sephardim how they feel being under the heel of the ashkenazi ??? The blacks of the Israelis … or why the orthodox don’t believe the Israeli state should even exist..
Jimmy Cahill January 2nd, 2015 at 12:59
Big difference here, one nation’s terrorists are another nation’s freedom fighters. After more than a half century of persecution at the hands of Israel, militaristic actions are seen by many as the only way to solve the problem, despite the fact that Israel’s military is so much more advanced. They have seen attempts at diplomacy fail b/c Israel just holds too much power on the global landscape.
burqa January 2nd, 2015 at 13:28
They didn’t wait 50 years. They began killing Jews just for being Jews when the Muslim Brotherhood was formed in the 20s.
Terrorism has been the only thing they’ve tried other than outright conventional war.
I’ve read quite a bit and have never seen any movement to try nonviolence.
Their “diplomacy” has been to make demands, and when they get a “yes,” they just make more demands and never compromise themselves.
They were attacking civilians when they had Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza.
So you think the murder of Robert Stethen, the attack on the children at the school at Ma’alot, the murder of the athletes at the 1972 Olympics, the murder of U.S. Ambassadors Cleo A. Noel and George C. Moore were the work of “freedom fighters”?
burqa January 2nd, 2015 at 13:29
Hamas, Hezbollah, PLO, Black September, Abu Nidal Organization, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, PFLP, PFLP-GC, al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, Muslim Brotherhood,
terrorists or freedom fighters in your view?
burqa January 2nd, 2015 at 08:35
Who you want put on trial for the Liberty attack?
Gimme names of who should be indicted.
rg9rts January 2nd, 2015 at 10:23
The Israeli government at the time for a start.
burqa January 2nd, 2015 at 10:50
Which ones did what during the attack on the Liberty 47 – 1/2 years ago, hmmm?
Netanyahu, for example, was he one of the pilots? Did he give the orders? If not him, who?
Who did what?
burqa January 2nd, 2015 at 02:11
I have known several Palestinians who are wonderful people and have long supported them in their desire for a state.
Unfortunately, they’re just not ready to join the community of nations.
They need to start prosecuting instead of electing terrorists.
They need to show they can properly administer the land they have autonomy over.
They need to become dedicated to living peacefully with their neighbors instead of being dedicated to mass murder through terrorism.
They need to start compromising instead of taking absolutist positions in which their demands only increase when the other side agrees to give them what they want.
They need to start keeping their word – already they got land for peace but haven’t held up their end of the deal.
They need far better leadership.
Right now, they’re just not ready for prime time, do not show any signs of getting there and that’s a pitiful shame.
rg9rts January 2nd, 2015 at 05:56
USS Liberty
burqa January 2nd, 2015 at 06:51
Doesn’t rebut a single point I made.
The Palestinians have elected leaders of groups dedicated to committing war crimes.
They love them that Hamas, Hezbollah, PLO, Black September, Abu Nidal Organization, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, PFLP, PFLP-GC, al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, Muslim Brotherhood, – the list is almost endless as is the list of their acts of terrorism and war crimes.
If the Palestinians get a state, it will be one dedicated to committing war crimes, so, please.
rg9rts January 2nd, 2015 at 09:09
And YOUR peoples paradise leadrs are cut from the same cloth…Begin was a terrorist bomber…Look up King David Hotel.. The Israelis should be brought to the Hague for what THEY HAVE DONE. Can you grasp that distinction. They too are thugs , murderers of the finest ilk with a long history of beating on the weak. That is the point not if the Palestinians are fit.
burqa January 2nd, 2015 at 09:30
My points, above, remain unassailed.
I know all about Begin and the King David Hotel. Rather than start at the middle, I’d prefer to start at the beginning with the founding of the Muslim Brotherhood and the murders they began committing.
Son, I’ve forgotten more on the topic of terrorism than you can possibly tell me. It is the subject of an ongoing research project that began almost 20 years ago.
Anyone can pick out specific incidents and try to build a case to support a preconceived notion. Over time, no one’s hands are clean.
But when we look at the whole picture over time we get a more proper perspective that provides a degree of balance and there’s no comparison. From the beginning the Arabs have seldom targeted military targets and in wars got whupped bad by a tiny opponent. They’re too damned stupid to know how to take a ass-whuppin’ so that’s what they keep getting until they figure out not to mess with those Israelis and to come to the peace table honestly and stop the phony approach I described above that you, so far, have avoided addressing.
The whole object here is to get the Palestinians a terrorist state from which they can continue to try to eradicate the Jews with more mass murder and war crimes.
They are not ready for prime-time, period.
They are also not fit to bring anyone to trial for war crimes, given that is what they have dedicated themselves to doing instead of becoming a nation fit to join the community of nations.
rg9rts January 2nd, 2015 at 11:24
Must be a republican twist the argument to fit your criteria…get lost
burqa January 2nd, 2015 at 12:35
Who should we indict for that King David hotel bombing?
You didn’t say.
Never got around to saying who should be indicted for the attack on the Liberty, either, come to think of it.
Need a little more time on that one?
How about a week?
Think you can come up with some names and what they did by next Friday?
rg9rts January 2nd, 2015 at 13:29
Lets agree to disagree …go your way and I’ll go mine
burqa January 2nd, 2015 at 14:15
I always agree to disagree and always go my own way. None of that following the crowd stuff for me.
I also try not to order people around.
Is a week not enough time? I’m pretty flexible and will be glad to work with you if you need more time…..
burqa January 2nd, 2015 at 09:39
Ok, who should be indicted today for the attack on the King David Hotel?
Gimme names.
Bu-ut, going with your “same cloth” theme, you willing to indict the current Palestinian leadership who are members of Hamas or who harbor Hamas? How about Hezbollah and their confederates?
Hmmmm?
After all, you made an equivalency argument…………the only difference being Begin is dead and today the current Palestinian leadership is thick with terrorists and their active supporters.
rg9rts January 2nd, 2015 at 11:22
Thugs are thugs just lioke the NYPD… Your Israeli’s have blood all over their hands too and are far from the perfect beings you want to portray them as…using your standards they aren’t good enough for statehood either.
burqa January 2nd, 2015 at 11:47
In my post below, you’ll read:
“… Anyone can pick out specific incidents and try to build a case to support a preconceived notion. Over time, no one’s hands are clean.But when we look at the whole picture over time we get a more proper perspective that provides a degree of balance and there’s no comparison. …”
So much for your invention about me claiming the Israelis are “perfect beings you want to portray them as.”
The Israelis began asking for peace the first day of statehood and instead the Arabs started a war in which was their first of many defeats. Since then that’s all they’ve done.
After losing a couple more wars they settled on letting the Palestinians dying for them and ever since, except for getting creamed in ’73, they’ve pursued a strategy of fighting to the last Palestinian.
They demanded just what the Israelis later offered, but then they turned that down, unable to take yes for an answer.
It’s just been terrorism the rest of the time and that involved murdering hundreds of Americans and our diplomats, too.
Given autonomy, they didn’t do as the Israelis did and formed a state seeking to live peacefully. It was just more terrorism and war crimes and diversion of funds to build a country to more of the same.
But it’s nice to agree and when you say “…using your standards they aren’t good enough for statehood either….” it appears you agree with me on the suitability of the Palestinians at this time for statehood.
rg9rts January 2nd, 2015 at 12:04
And what have you done??? You brand an entire society for the behavior of the few… Why don’t you ask the sephardim how they feel being under the heel of the ashkenazi ??? The blacks of the Israelis … or why the orthodox don’t believe the Israeli state should even exist..
Jimmy Cahill January 2nd, 2015 at 13:59
Big difference here, one nation’s terrorists are another nation’s freedom fighters. After more than a half century of persecution at the hands of Israel, militaristic actions are seen by many as the only way to solve the problem, despite the fact that Israel’s military is so much more advanced. They have seen attempts at diplomacy fail b/c Israel just holds too much power on the global landscape.
burqa January 2nd, 2015 at 14:28
They didn’t wait 50 years. They began killing Jews just for being Jews when the Muslim Brotherhood was formed in the 20s.
Terrorism has been the only thing they’ve tried other than outright conventional war.
I’ve read quite a bit and have never seen any movement to try nonviolence.
Their “diplomacy” has been to make demands, and when they get a “yes,” they just make more demands and never compromise themselves.
They were attacking civilians when they had Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza.
So you think the murder of Robert Stethen, the attack on the children at the school at Ma’alot, the murder of the athletes at the 1972 Olympics, the murder of U.S. Ambassadors Cleo A. Noel and George C. Moore were the work of “freedom fighters”?
burqa January 2nd, 2015 at 14:29
Hamas, Hezbollah, PLO, Black September, Abu Nidal Organization, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, PFLP, PFLP-GC, al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, Muslim Brotherhood,
terrorists or freedom fighters in your view?
burqa January 2nd, 2015 at 09:35
Who you want put on trial for the Liberty attack?
Gimme names of who should be indicted.
rg9rts January 2nd, 2015 at 11:23
The Israeli government at the time for a start.
burqa January 2nd, 2015 at 11:50
Which ones did what during the attack on the Liberty 47 – 1/2 years ago, hmmm?
Netanyahu, for example, was he one of the pilots? Did he give the orders? If not him, who?
Who did what?
rg9rts January 2nd, 2015 at 04:56
Go for it…the peoples paradise has to be held accountable for their actions…..too many oops we didn’t mean its …
rg9rts January 2nd, 2015 at 05:56
Go for it…the peoples paradise has to be held accountable for their actions…..too many oops we didn’t mean its …