By Manila Ryce
Published Thursday, February 28th, 2008, 4:40 am
Filed under: Human Rights, World: Asia, Society/Culture: Civil Unrest, Terrorism, Society/Culture, World Issues, US Politics
From the UN Council of Things Which are Obvious to Everyone but Still Need to be Stated Publicly for the Sake of Imperialist Leaders Who Have Their Heads up Their Asses, came this report published on Tuesday.
A report commissioned by the United Nations says Palestinian terrorism is the “inevitable consequence” of Israeli occupation — a claim Israel rejected Tuesday as inflammatory.
The report — posted on the U.N. Human Rights Council’s Web site — says that while Palestinian terrorist acts are deplorable, “they must be understood as being a painful but inevitable consequence of colonialism, apartheid or occupation.”
The report accuses the Jewish state of acts and policies consistent with all three.
As long as there is occupation, there will be terrorism, says the author, John Dugard, an independent investigator on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and a South African lawyer who campaigned against apartheid in the 1980s.
Dugard says in the report that “common sense … dictates that a distinction must be drawn between acts of mindless terror, such as acts committed by al-Qaida, and acts committed in the course of a war of national liberation against colonialism, apartheid or military occupation.”
The report calls for an end to the Israeli occupation, citing the country’s checkpoints and roadblocks restricting Palestinian movement, house demolitions and the “Judaization” of Jerusalem.
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A report commissioned by the United Nations says Palestinian terrorism is the “inevitable consequence” of Israeli occupation — a claim Israel rejected Tuesday as inflammatory.
Oh, but while we’re discussion sacred cows, we can’t dare seem Anti-Israel. We can give the appearance of being anti-woman or anti-black, but god forbid we question the strength of the state of Israel!
Heretic! Stone him!
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