Posted on 10/17/2009 6:26:48 AM PDT by celticfreedom
While we all have been following the Obama Administration's hasty legislative attempt to have the Federal Government socialize the US healthcare system, another catastrophe has been developing on the world scene upon which our Citizen of the World-Nobel Peace Prize winning President has yet to move in the defense of liberty.
The United Nations has been quietly moving in multiple bodies to eventually prosecute Israeli Military Officials singularly and the State of Israel at large for defending herself in the 22-day military defensive response to Hamas, Operation Cast Lead.
To sum up briefly, Judge Richard Goldstone presented his report to the United Nations Human Rights Council on September 15 with a much ballyhooed press conference in New York that included a satellite connection to Geneva, where the paragon of virtue, democracy, and human rights, Libya, chairs the Human Rights Council. The Goldstone Commission was formed on January 12 as an "independent-international fact finding mission ... to investigate all violations of international human rights law ... by the occupying Power, Israel, against the Palestinian people." To the surprise of any neutral observer, Judge Goldstone's fact finding mission, which was occasionally interrupted by interviews on Al-Jazeera, found that Israel had committed serious "violations of international human rights law ... during the military operations in Gaza ... and that actions amounting to war crimes and possibly, in some respects, crimes against humanity, were committed by the Israel Defense Force (IDF)."
Judge Goldstone seeks to have Israeli soldiers and Government Officials prosecuted in the International Criminal Court (ICC), a body to which Israel is not a signatory. He has completely disregarded the Israeli judicial system, which conducts independent investigations into all allegations of IDF misconduct, and has even publicly characterized them as "pusillanimous." To this end, the UN Security Council will discuss the Goldstone Report today in New York while the Human Rights Council will be holding special proceedings starting on Thursday in Geneva. This all despite President Mahmoud Abas's (Palestinian Authority) move to delay the Human Rights Council's final decision just two short weeks ago until March, 2010. So while Israel has removed numerous roadblocks in the West Bank and restarted negotiations with the Palestinian Authority, it has been reciprocated by the Palestinians with this latest travesty on the international scene.
However, the simple fact which we have all ignored is that the entire matter could simply be quashed should President Obama decide to exert American diplomatic power. The US could veto any measure in the UN Security Council and move to have Abbas drop this issue in the Human Rights Council. The State Department could publicly state that the ICC does not have jurisdiction over the State of Israel and therefore should not review the matter.
Yet while it is clear that President Obama does not view Israeli interests as tied with American, a sharp change from the Bush administration, he should be cognizant that should Israeli soldiers be prosecuted by the ICC, this would set the clear precedent for our own troops to be next.
For as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in his address to the UN General Assembly this year, "History has show us time and again that what starts as attacks on the Jews eventually ends up engulfing many others."
For the 80+% of our American Jewish friends who were too blind to see this coming.
I TOLD YA SO!!!!!!
something in the world is going to up in smoke, some real important moments are just up ahead.
How this moron can receive a Nobel PEACE prize for ‘making nice’ with communist dictators while throwing Israel under the bus and out to the wolves in the Middle East, I’ll NEVER know.
The middle east has been THE powder keg of the planet for most of my life. Most presidents until now, no matter what party, has at least appeared to be concerned and have tried to keep peace there.
This slug we have now seems to keep throwing buckets of gasoline on the middle east. -Does he think he can mop up THAT mess???
Law requires a lawgiver.
Unfortunately the only way American Jews are going to learn about the US leftwing and Democrats is they will need to witness another Holocaust (destruction of Israel). Some people learn from the death of one, some require the death of millions before they learn. American Jews fall into the later category.
Once the world is governed from the UN, it will be easy prey for manipulation by the Islamists. The whole globalist agenda will devolve into a series of appeasements to keep the Muslims from being offended.
Yup, the cry “Never again!” has given way to “Israel, who?”. A lot of American Jews are at the point where they will throw Israel to the wolves to gain peace and tranquility for themselves. They had how unpopular they’ve become at Leftist cocktail parties because of supposed injustices committed by Israel. In truth, these “crimes” are just normal acts of self defense, but you can’t expect liberal Jews to make such distinctions—they are too far gone. What they don’t realize (or do realize and choose to ignore), is that by abandoning Israel, they are sealing their own fate or those of their children—just at a later date. The Muslim juggernaught eventually wants their blood too and any “peace” they buy by breaking with their fellow Jews is temporary only.
Obama sat attended Rev. Wright’s church over 20 years, where the sympathy clearly went to the Pali’s over the Jews.
Why! Yes! He does. After all he is baraq O bamah. "The 'ONE'" and only blasphemer, liar and mocker of all that is good.
Just watch. You haven't seen anything yet.
OTOH, to throw Israel under the bus, Obama would get the gratitude of 1.5 billion Muslims. Obama understands that.
It is written that if we curse Israel, we will be cursed. It may be the total collapse of the economy, terrorist attacks, disease or ???
Israel is a socialist utopia built in a bad neighborhood. The normal human reaction to threatening neighbors is to move. That's why humans live all over the world in widely varying climates. The Jews are driven by religious reasons to stand their ground and face the envious evil forces of human evolution. A result is the Jews have evolved into some of the smartest people on Earth. It's their choice, so their problem.
Being forced to move to another neighborhood is not what I call choice. Gotta make a stand somewhere.
The Israeli could easily relocate to North Dakota and prosper.
Wright’s “church” wasn’t really a church—it was a political organization. Notice that Obama hasn’t joined a church since becoming POTUS? He isn’t really Christian—probably never was. Its just a facade to placate the sheeple.
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