Israel Hijacks Aid cargo, executes hostages - Pak journo, Talat Hussain taken hostage

[Agni 5]

Whose denying their right to exist? Its about the Palestinian' right to exist. Those living in Gaza are essentially in a prolonged incarceration.

You are forgetting wiping out from the map threats from Iran and some other states.

 

[Tiger Prowling]

What u expect from terrorist country like America.

Do u think that American terrorist govt; will allow its terror manager israel to be brought to book, never.

Turkey its time to wake up.

 

[Kompromat]

Dude, 96 pages of utter crap.

Just see who has been ever present throughout those pages and then you'll know who has been trolling.

Judgment of the day --cretin--

 

[Ahmad]

He is the missing link that provides the pakistani crowd here an oppurtunity to connect to that Israel-palstenine issue and hence to openly and disgracefully criticise israel.

I mean "IsraHell" !! What the F is that?? Its a sovereign country just like any other nation and this is a distinguished forum.

and where is sovereingthy of palesinians which has been viloated by israel for this many years?

 

[Marxist]

Abbas rejects calls to suspend talks

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday rejected calls to suspend peace talks with Israel and said that the US-sponsored “proximity” negotiations would continue despite the IDF operation against the Gaza-bound convoy.

Abbas made the announcement during a phone conversation with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.

Abbas had come under heavy pressure from Hamas and other Palestinian factions to halt the indirect talks with Israel in protest of the IDF operation.

Meanwhile, the PA and Hamas expressed deep satisfaction with Egypt’s decision to reopen the Rafah border crossing.

Abbas thanked Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak for reopening the terminal between the Gaza Strip and Egypt in response to the Israeli “crime” against the aid ships, a senior Palestinian official in Ramallah said.

Abbas has also decided to reach out to Hamas, in a bid to end the power struggle between his Fatah faction and the Islamist movement, the official told The Jerusalem Post.

He said that Abbas had asked Palestinian businessman Munib al-Masri to head a high-level delegation of Palestinian officials that would travel to the Gaza Strip to discuss ways of achieving “reconciliation” between the two parties, the official added.

The delegation would consist of senior PLO and Fatah officials, including ones who fled the Gaza Strip after Hamas’s violent takeover of the enclave in the summer of 2007.

Masri, who lives in Nablus, said the delegation would travel to Gaza either through the Erez crossing to the northern Strip or the Rafah border crossing from Sinai.

“We must achieve intra-Palestinian reconciliation,” he said. “We must forget the wounds for the sake of the unity and future of the Palestinian people.”

Muhammad Dahlan, a former Fatah security commander from the Gaza Strip who is wanted by Hamas, said that Fatah and PLO leaders who met in Ramallah late on Monday night had decided to dispatch a top delegation to launch talks with the movement.

Hamas said it would not agree to hold “reconciliation” talks with Fatah unless the PA halted security coordination and indirect talks with Israel and released all Hamas supporters from its West Bank jails.

Salah Bardaweel, a Hamas legislator and spokesman in Gaza City, said his movement had no time for such initiatives and visits.

“They keep coming and going only to ask us to accept the latest Egyptian proposal for ending the [Hamas-Fatah] dispute,” he said. “We have no more time to waste.”

Bardaweel said that before talking about ending the dispute, the PA should stop all contacts with Israel, including the indirect talks and security coordination.

“The Palestinian Authority must also stop its campaign of arrests and harassment against young men, women and the elderly in the West Bank. They must stop torture in their prisons,” he said.

Mashaal welcomes Rafah border opening

Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal welcomed the decision to reopen the Rafah border crossing and called on Mubarak not to close it again.

Addressing Mubarak, he said, “You began your life as a fighter against the Zionist occupation. Now we call on you to take a strong and courageous decision to keep the Rafah terminal permanently open and end your life with this brave decision.”

Mubarak, 82, had a long career in the Egyptian Air Force and commanded it during the Yom Kippur War.

Mashaal said Hamas was not opposed to the presence of European monitors at the border crossing to make sure that weapons were not smuggled into the Gaza Strip.

Mashaal also urged Fatah to join Hamas in “resisting the occupation” and putting the Palestinian house in order.

He condemned security coordination between the PA and Israel as a “crime,” saying there was no reason Israel should be rewarded for its actions.

“Why should [Prime Minister Binyamin] Netanyahu give you anything if you are opposed to an intifada and are fighting and arresting resistance fighters?” he asked. “If we are united, the Arabs will stand with us.”

Mashaal, who was speaking at a press conference in Yemen, called for bringing Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak to trial for committing “war crimes.” He said Hamas wanted a “new Goldstone Report” – a reference to the UN commission of inquiry into Operation Cast Lead, headed by South African Judge Richard Goldstone.

Abbas rejects calls to suspend talks

 

[Kompromat]

You are forgetting wiping out from the map threats from Iran and some other states.

Iran is not the issue here.

 

[prodevelopment]

Judgment of the day --cretin--

Oh, I forgot I was talking to another racist bigot who has moved on from the white man's burden to the muslim man's burden.

Carry on.

 

[blain2]

"The UN humanitarian co-ordinator said last week that the formal economy in Gaza has "collapsed" and 60% of households were short of food. According to UN statistics, around 70% of Gazans live on less than $1 a day, 75% rely on food aid and 60% have no daily access to water."

So much for the lame points about the need for Israel to carry on the blockade. Those defending the Israeli actions here need to reorient their sense of decency.

 

[ek_indian]

This time USA did not do any good. There should be an inquiry into all this nonsense. If Israel is found guilty (which I am sure it is), they should be treated accordingly.

What was other permanent members's response?

 

[Aslan]

Anger at UN rights council debate on Gaza boat raid
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GENEVA : Muslim nations on Tuesday angrily condemned Israel's ‘heinous attack’ on a Gaza aid flotilla and demanded an international probe at an emergency session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.

"These murderous attacks are characteristic tools used by Israel to derail every peaceful effort and silence every voice of moderation and reason,"

Pakistani ambassador Zamir Akram told the council on behalf of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC).

Describing the assault as a "heinous attack," Turkey's envoy stressed that "treating humanitarian aid delivery as a hostile act and aid workers as combatants is totally unacceptable."

Israeli commandos boarded one of the aid ships bound for the Gaza Strip in the pre-dawn raid on Monday that left at least nine passengers dead and sparked global outrage. Hundreds of pro-Palestinian activists were also arrested.

Israeli ambassador Aharon Leshno Yaar, defending the military action, outlined international law and said the soldiers acted in self defence and only used live ammunition because they were attacked.

"The people who surrounded them were not peace activists, they were a lynch mob," said Yaar.

"Under applicable international law, capture of a vessel attempting to breach a naval blockade can be done in international waters, before entrance to the blockaded area," he added.

States from the Arab League and the OIC had asked for the special session of the 47 member state council.

Pakistan, Sudan and the Palestinian delegation also tabled a draft resolution for the debate seeking condemnation of the raid and aiming to set up an international inquiry.

The draft, which is to be submitted to a vote by the council on Wednesday, called for an "independent international fact-finding mission to investigate violations of international law resulting from the Israeli attacks on the flotilla of ships carrying humanitarian assistance."

It also "condemns in the strongest terms possible the outrageous attack by Israeli forces" and called for the release of all those detained in Monday's operation.

On Tuesday, Israel began the process of deporting more than 600 pro-Palestinian activists who were brought ashore after the deadly navy raid.

Israel warned Tuesday it would prevent all aid ships from reaching besieged Gaza, as activists vowed a new attempt to defy the three-year-old blockade of the Hamas-run Palestinian territory.

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay had condemned Israel's use of military force as disproportionate, as the incident sparked widespread criticism when the council began its latest two week session on Monday.

"The blockade lies at the heart of so many of the problems plaguing the Israel-Palestine situation, as does the impression that the Israeli government treats international law with perpetual disdain," she said.

The UN Security Council in New York later called for an impartial investigation into the attack and the immediate release of all civilians.

Israel is frequently the subject of special debates and condemnation by the UN's top rights assembly for issues such as settlement building in occupied territories and abuse against Palestinians.

A similar special session early last year led to a UN human rights investigation into Israel's 2008-2009 military offensive in the Gaza Strip.

The fact-finding mission led by former international war crimes prosecutor Richard Goldstone concluded that both Israel and Gaza's Hamas rulers committed war crimes and possible crimes against humanity.

Copyright AFP (Agence France-Presse), 2010

 

[Kompromat]

not unexpected !

 

[Comet]

You are forgetting wiping out from the map threats from Iran and some other states.

The ship was not coming from Iran.

 

[Aslan]

Oh, I forgot I was talking to another racist bigot who has moved on from the white man's burden to the muslim man's burden.

Carry on.

Dude you should be the last one making judgement, by the way I am still waiting for an evidence on the basis of which you called me an idiot yesterday. And accused me of derailment of the thread. Apparently after which you conveniently ran away.

And make sure that you give me a civilized answer this time.

 

[blain2]

You are forgetting wiping out from the map threats from Iran and some other states.

So what does that have to do with getting food and goods to the 1.5 million Palestinians? Lets keep politics aside. This is a humanitarian issue. Palestinians are not responsible for the statements of the leader of Iran.

Secondly, others talk about Zionist entity in Israel dying off, here Israelis are actively holding an entire population hostage to their political dispute with the government of Gaza. If anything, its the Palestinian nation that seems to be getting wiped out or having to live as third rate humans.

 

[Agni 5]

The ship was not coming from Iran.

Simple answer. Israel don't give any chance. It is very tiny country. it has to be proactive to survive. So many enemies waiting to stab.

It is off topic but you know people attacked mumbai on 26/11 came in a fishing boat.