Israel fearful of war crimes charges

[grizzley]

Looks like Israel tourism may be up in the United States. No where else to go.......

Israel is preparing for a wave of lawsuits by pro-Palestinian organizations overseas against Israelis involved in the Gaza fighting, claiming they were responsible for war crimes due to the harsh results stemming from the IDF's actions against Palestinian civilians and their property.

Senior Israeli ministers have expressed serious fears during the past few days about the possibility that Israel will be pressed to agree to an international investigation of the losses among non-combatants during Operation Cast Lead; or alternately, that Israelis will be faced with personal suits, such as happened to Israeli officers who were accused of war crimes in Britain for their actions during the second intifada.

"When the scale of the damage in Gaza becomes clear, I will no longer take a vacation in Amsterdam, only at the international court in The Hague," said one minister.

www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1056677.html

[lawrence]

Yeah , I'll bet they're real fearful.

[bertrus2]

It's going to scupper the plans of Israelis who were planning to return to their countries of origin.

[newyorker]

Time for the "palestinians" to return to the countries of their origins, Jordan, Egypt and Syria are waiting for them to go home.

[bertrus2]

A total of 25,000 Israelis have left the country so far this year (2005) Apparently yored, the once derogatory term for an Israeli who leaves the country, no longer rhymes with boged, Hebrew for traitor.

The Ministry of Immigrant Absorption, which is also responsible for returning Israelis, says that there are 750,000 Israelis living abroad. This is according to the numbers compiled by Israel consular offices worldwide: some 60 percent are in North America, 25 percent in Europe and 15 percent in other places.

[Deleted]

Yeah, more liebensraum for the chosen people.

[Amazed]

LOL!

Liebensraum = loving space.

Lebensraum = living space

[newyorker]

Jan 26, 2009 21:17:20 GMT Amazed said:

LOL!

Liebensraum = loving space.

Lebensraum = living space

Both sound good.

[bertrus2]

Just a factual note.

The majority of Gaza's residents are from refugee families which fled or were expelled from the land that became Israel in 1948. Most Gazans live in eight refugee camps to which the United Nations delivers health, education and other humanitarian services.

[lawrence]

If everyone went home to where they came from the place would be as described by Mark Twain a hundred years ago. Empty. Devoid of population.

[grizzley]

Best suggestion to date.

[cobblers]

Jan 26, 2009 21:21:33 GMT bertrus2 said:

Just a factual note.

The majority of Gaza's residents are from refugee families which fled or were expelled from the land that became Israel in 1948. Most Gazans live in eight refugee camps to which the United Nations delivers health, education and other humanitarian services.

Actually that's disputed, as well you know.

[bertrus2]

Actually that's disputed, as well you know.

As you well know, on the doubtful supposition that you know anything about the subject, it isn't disputed. The criminals themselves and their advocates, as is usually the case, have a string of excuses and self-justifying humbug, but the fact that the people of Gaza are mostly from families that lived in areas taken over by Israel is not disputed.