Israel investigates killing a colonel by the war in Gaza
Saturday, October 23, 2010
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Israel investigates killing a colonel by the war in Gaza
ENRIC GONZÁLEZ
23/10/2010
Israeli Colonel Ilan Malka and other senior military commanders are being investigated by a massacre of Palestinian civilians that took place in Gaza on January 5, 2009, during "Operation Cast Lead. The incident, which killed 21 members of the family Samuni, was one of those highlighted by South African Judge Richard Goldstone in a report to 
UN in which Israel and Hamas accused of possible war crimes. Malka was questioned yesterday by lawyers Military Police.
The newspaper Haaretz revealed officially under investigation for the second time killing (a previous investigation concluded that there had been "mistakes" but not crimes) and reconstructed events, from anonymous sources of research and testimony, also anonymous, five Israeli soldiers collected by the organization Breaking the Silence (Breaking Silence). According reconstruction, which basically coincides with previous media reports, Israeli troops occupied as a command post Samuni family home in Gaza City, and recommended that the entire clan family gathered in another building on the same street. In total, about one hundred people were housed in that building.
Branches or missiles
At one point, several men went to gather firewood for heating and cooking. Israeli soldiers in the area found that beams loaded branches. Colonel Malka, whose promotion to general was paralyzed-interpreted, however, from photographs taken by an unmanned drone that those branches were missiles, and ordered that a plane bombed the house. It seems likely that Malka received notice of the soldiers on the civilian presence in the house and the absence of suspicious activity.
"This seems to show that not only were isolated abuses by some soldiers in Gaza, but a strategy to minimize risk to the Israelis without taking into account the lives of Palestinian civilians," said Yehuda Shaul, director of Breaking the Silence. ººººººººººººººººº
Mustafa Barghouthi
No negotiation can come to fruition if it occurs between two parties totally dissimilar. In the context of Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, equity requires a balance of power reasonably clear terms of reference and that both sides refrain from imposing their unilateral facts on the ground. None of this has existed in the Palestinian-Israeli negotiations will resume on September 2, 2010 and, therefore, were doomed to failure.
The negotiations took place between occupier and occupied. On the one hand, a powerful Israeli military system has become the third largest military exporter in the world and has trebled its GDP in a decade. Israel, where public opinion has changed dramatically and is now supporting the far-right parties, and where the system of apartheid discrimination against Palestinians has become an acceptable norm. Israel, which enjoys an unprecedented impunity against international law, international humanitarian law and even basic human rights standards.
On the other hand, a Palestinian Authority suffered internal divisions in his country, a total dependence on foreign aid and a serious deterioration democracy and human rights. An authority that is constantly under pressure to provide security for its occupant, when it fails to offer protection to its own people face the same occupant. These have been negotiations with the Israeli government that dominates and controls the land, roads, airspace, borders, water supplies and electricity, trade and economy of the Palestinian side.
On the other hand, a Palestinian Authority suffered internal divisions in his country, a total dependence on foreign aid and a serious deterioration democracy and human rights. An authority that is constantly under pressure to provide security for its occupant, when it fails to offer protection to its own people face the same occupant.
| The real price in human lives negotiations was due to the continuation of illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank, including Jerusalem. During the 17 years since the Oslo negotiations, the number of settlers has grown by 300% and the number of settlements has doubled. The only settlements are the first line of a network of apartheid including checkpoints, segregated roads, security zones, the wall of separation, and even what they call nature reserves. |
The network is eating every day the land, water resources and economic space of a Palestinian state could be independent. It has already consumed about 60% of the West Bank. We have achieved and probably exceeded, the critical points where any further settlement amounts to the death of the last chance for an independent Palestinian state.
The Israeli system knows better than anyone. They also know that his attitude in the negotiation of issues such as Jerusalem and borders means transforming the idea of \u200b\u200ba Palestinian state in groups of ghettos and Indian reservations. It is a system of segregation that prevailed worse than the apartheid system South Africa.
The Court of Hague and an endless number of UN resolutions have ruled that the settlements are illegal and must go. The Road Map
announced by the Quartet and in 2003 indicated that all settlement activity must end. But neither the U.S. nor the Quartet has had the courage to exert any serious pressure to force Israel to stop settlement activities. That inability has whetted the appetite of the movement of settlers and their aggressive behavior against the Palestinians in a way that is unprecedented. the Palestinian Authority and Arab governments have with the United States as a force for stability in the Palestinian-Israeli serious imbalance has proved unjustified. As much is made illusions.
So what's left? enacted by the General Assembly United Nations partition resolution of 1947. The same resolution Israel gave its legitimacy.
This would be the ultimate test of the U.S., Europe and the international community for the creation of a truly independent democratic Palestinian state. This is the true test of the strategy of building the rule adopted by the donor community. This would also be the ideal vehicle to finally draw a line between support for Palestinian institution-free pregnancy and payment of the cost of the occupation, using taxpayers European Union and the United States to build a oppressive system of apartheid that deletes all basic human rights in Palestine. If the international community turns its back on our Declaration of Independence, using the hackneyed arguments, insulting and rude that each step should be agreed first with the Israeli government, then the message will be enlightening. The last chance for peace based on a two-state solution has come to an end.
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