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Israeli Apartheid: Blame the One's Who We Just Massacred Print E-mail
Tuesday, 13 June 2006

So the “Israeli investigation” has concluded in four days that it was not responsible for the massacre? I’m just wondering how long it took for James Miller or Tom Hurndall's investigation. A week or maybe two? Actually no it has taken years, with a teeny weeny bit of pressure from the UK government. Let me just highlight a few things in these investigations, incidently, in both of these brutal murders the Israeli’s denied any wrong doing.

 

Case: Tom Hurndall
Murdered: 11th April 2003
Justice Served?: Justice Served with Pressure

The initial IDF field report, which went to the British Embassy in Tel Aviv and to Tom's family, exonerated the soldier who had killed him. He claimed that Tom was in camouflage, and wielding a gun. In the face of a clutch of witness statements, such suggestions were withdrawn. Just before Tom's death, the soldier, a Bedouin Arab of the IDF, was indicted on six charges, of which the most serious was aggravated assault, implying no intention to kill. Since Tom was shot by a rifle with an advanced telescopic lens, his parents are demanding that the charge be murder, but they are also demanding the eradication of the "culture of impunity" with which the IDF operates in the occupied territories of Palestine.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,3604,1128176,00.html

Tom’s “Justice”

An Israeli ex-soldier who killed UK peace activist Tom Hurndall in the Gaza Strip has been jailed for eight years.

Ex-sergeant Taysir Hayb was convicted of manslaughter at an Israeli military court in June for shooting Mr Hurndall, of north London, in April 2003.

He was sentenced to seven years for manslaughter and one year for obstruction of justice.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4140586.stm

Case: Jame’s Millers
Murdered: 2 May 2003
Justice Served: No Justice

Israel will not prosecute the soldier believed responsible for the death of documentary-maker James Miller in Gaza.

Mr Miller, from Devon, was shot dead in 2003 at the age of 34, allegedly by a soldier in the Israeli Defence Forces.

Army officials said there was no proof the officer fired the fatal shot but he would be disciplined for apparently breaking the rules of engagement.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/devon/4329903.stm

Jame’s Millers “Justice”

A British cameraman shot dead in the Gaza Strip by an Israeli soldier was murdered, an inquest jury has decided.

James Miller, 34, from Devon, was shot by a soldier from the Israeli Defence Force (IDF) while making a film in a Palestinian refugee camp in 2003.

An Israeli investigation in April 2005 cleared a soldier of misusing firearms.

Did Israel Assist in the Investigation?

Metropolitan Police Det Insp Robert Anderson told the inquest on Thursday that Israel had been "uncooperative" during their own investigations into the shooting.

Mr Anderson said: "Israel has been uncooperative with the Metropolitan Police in that they haven't allowed us access to interview soldiers and witnesses."

From MPACUK’s own investigation on the IDF’s Investigations, we can conclude that we cannot take the Israeli Goverment or it's IDF seriously never mind it’s investigations. Our own fellow British Comrades do not get a fair justice so how can a Palestinian girl whose family was brutally mudered expect to get any justice at all?

To state some facts, here is an excerpt from the last few http://www.pchrgaza.org/files/W_report/English/2006/weekly2006.htm. Read and count the number of martyrs, women and children killed and or injured in the last month only (excluding arrests, house demolition, Annexation Wall and land theft, etc…):

01- 07 June 06 report:

  • 5 Palestinians were killed by IOF in the Gaza Strip.
  • Two of the victims were extra-judicially executed by IOF.
  • 29 Palestinian civilians, including 9 children and a woman, were wounded by IOF gunfire.
  • IOF have continued to shell Palestinian areas in the northern Gaza Strip, wounding a number of civilians and damaging civilian property.
  • IOF raided a hospital in Nablus and arrested a patient from the intensive care unit.
  • Israeli settlers have continued to attack Palestinian civilians and property in the OPT; 7 civilian facilities were demolished by IOF; and 4 Palestinian civilians, including a child and a woman, were injured by attacks launched by Israeli settlers.

25- 31 May 06 report:

  • 11 Palestinians, including a child, killed by IOF.
  • 28 Palestinian civilians, including 10 children, were wounded by IOF gunfire.
  • IOF killed 4 Palestinians inside the northern Gaza Strip in the first military operation of its kind, since the IOF’s redeployment around the Gaza Strip.
  • 60 Palestinian civilians, including 4 children and 2 women, were arrested by IOF.

18- 24 May 06 Report:

  • 9 Palestinians killed by IOF.
  • IOF committed another extra-judicial execution in Gaza.
  • IOF killed 4 Palestinians and wounded 35 others during an incursion into Ramallah.
  • 26 Palestinian civilians, including 10 children, were wounded by IOF gunfire.

11- 17 May 06 report:

  • 9 Palestinians killed by IOF in the West Bank.
  • 41 Palestinian civilians, including 13 children, were wounded by IOF gunfire.
  • IOF continued to shell Palestinian areas in the Gaza Strip, especially the northern area.

04- 10 May 06 report:

  • 9 Palestinians killed by IOF.
  • IOF committed another extra-judicial execution in Gaza.
  • 24 Palestinian civilians, including 7 children and 3 women, were wounded by IOF gunfire.

27 Apr - 03 May 06 report:

  • IOF shot dead a Palestinian woman the West Bank and extra-judicially executed a Palestinian activist in the Gaza Strip.
  • Two Palestinians were extra-judicially executed by IOF in Bethlehem.
  • 17 Palestinian civilians, including 7 children, were wounded by IOF gunfire.

Can someone justify the killing of all the above innocents? Or is it because these martyrs were not brought to your attention? Then Israel has the nerve to say that it is the innocent nation? Did they kill themselves, or was it natural disaster? I would go for the last one… a natural disaster called Israel Terrorism.

WE REST OUR CASE




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Readers have left 8 comments.
Ant Petterson: Quote

Your right MPAC. Everyone you mentioned only happened because of fundermental islamophobia. Every arrest or killing took place for the sole reason that the Jewish state hates the Arabs.

There is no more to be said. It is that simple. Isn't it?
(1) 2006-06-13 22:09:48
Soloiman,: Quote

Typical, Israel denies everything. What a bunch of crooks. And why havent the Jewish community condemned this?
(2) 2006-06-14 08:56:54
Taz: Quote

Hamas don't plant landmines on beaches, there were people walking on the beach all day, one Israeli shell is unaccounted for, an indpendent expert has stated that the deaths and injuries were consistent with Israeli shelling, the Israelis were shelling the beach that day, the Israeli "investigation" did not involve visiting the scene of the massacre, Tony Blair has accepted Ehud Olmert's lies.
(3) 2006-06-14 20:32:29
Linda Jordan: Quote

It is tragic that a family have been killed in such dreadful circumstances but in many ways the argument about 'who's' weapon it was who killed them is redundant. The fact is that there is a perpetual cycle of violence from both sides. There cannot be a 'ceasefire' in place when the Israelis are hit with 30 Quassam rockets in a week. An infirmary and a school were hit in Israel and no one even bothered to report that. It is up to the Palestinian authorities to STOP terrorist attacks on Israel, if they did that the family would be alive and well today, the family wasn't hit during a period of peace and if Israel were shelling the beach no one would be having a picnic there!!!! This rocket/mortar clearly went astray, a tragic accident which neither side wanted to happen but that's what happens when people fire explosives into populated areas, it could have been an Israeli family. Now the Palestinian mother is lying in her hospital bed expressing hope that an Israeli mother suffers in the same way. Well one would have had the chance to do that if she and her unborn child had survived the shooting in cold blood that also claimed the lives of HER four daughters. Remember that? How could revenge EVER be appropriate against children? It's depressing but blaming one side, whether you are a BBC reporter, or a Muslim in Britain isn't going to help.
(4) 2006-06-15 07:10:07
Shazia: Quote

In response to Linda Jordan i think you would not know what it would be like to live in Palestine every day young children are arressted and taken from thier homes by Israeli police. You talk about cycle of violence on both sides but lets not forget who did the occupying that has caused the cycle of violence. If protecting your people is now terrorism then surely the palestnians are guilty!!! If Israelis want peace then get out of Palestinain terrority it is that simple!!!!
(5) 2006-06-15 21:15:48
Linda Jordan: Quote

Shazia how are the Palestinians protecting their people? By firing rubbishy rockets at a much more powerful country who return artillary with deadly force, and voting for a political group which refuses to acknowledge the right for Israel to exist? What good is that going to do them? Are the Israelis who went through so much to escape the pogroms and wars in Europe going to roll over and die? Are they going to get fed up and just leave to go nowhere? What about Middle Eastern born Jews thrown out of Islamic countries and sent to Israel...where will they go? Or the Arabs who are happy to be Israeli, both Muslim and Christian. Do you advocate a full scale war instead of firework rockets, would that help the Palestinians? Would that prevent Palestinian bloodshed? Are they likely to win? Just how long does this violence have to go on?
Incidently, my future son in law has a Greek Cypriot father, would you like to know how he feels about having the Turks camped out illegally on his land? Negotiation is the way forward, not with Hamas ceasefires whilst Palestinian militants carry on, but a genuine ceasefire. If that cannot be achieved, then I really do think that unless people actually LIVE in Gaza, on the West Bank or in Israel, we should ALL just shut up and leave them too it. After all, the Palestinians are not the only people who have had to put up with large scale immigration of a different religion and culture are they.
(6) 2006-06-16 07:52:41
Africana: Quote

Linda Jordan why is it that when Israel is guilty the argument is “redundant”.
Why is Israel and the supporters of Hell terrorism always singing that Israel is a powerful nation. What is so powerful about being a bully thug & terrorist nation?

How many abortions has IsraHell caused by their sonic bombs, checkpoint psychopathic insanity, emptying a full cartridge of bullets in Palestinians school children ……… the list is endless.

What should the Palestinians do? Accept the psychopathic, vile brutal barbaric occupation have the Israelis carry on with their pre-emptive strikes their extra-judicial serial killings and mass murders till none of them are left? Get real!

You talk about negotiations, who is the Palestinian authorities to negotiate with: US, IsraHell, the Zionists and/or the supporters of terrorist nation? One can negotiate with one identity but with multi individuals it is impossible. Negotiate on what? IsraHElls insatiable greed for Palestinian land with ever changing demands? Is that what you call negotiate?
Since when is occupation negotiation

You have 4 thug organisations that have one interest: THEIRS so how can any one negotiate and what kind of conditions are they to negotiate under.

Above you fail to mention the barbaric brutal terrorist state insatiable greed of Palestinian land and to steal ALL the land from the Palestinians. Exactly what kind of Palestinian nation are we talking about? Swiss cheese?
As for jews being thrown out of Muslim lands – What the hell are 20,000 jews doing in Iran? They are planting car bombs, spying and carrying out IsraHell “evil ideology”. US/UK & EU has thrown lot a Muslims from their lands for just being Muslims. If you cannot handle the fire do not get in the kitchen. According to some Italian jews they were only tooooooo glad to get out of Libya of their own free will. Now that Italy mafia is looking into having lucrative billion $€ mafia contracts the Italian jews have decided to activate the hollowcau$t industry – the exclusive eternal tragedy sufferers. This card has been so overused that it has no value anymore

Least you forget: the terrorist attack on the genocide sanction battered country of Irak was because Israel wanted it and for the benefit of Israel. The jewish witch Albright – we think it is worth million death of Iraki babies ……..
Israel has never shown any decency or any quality worth admiring. If you think having arms and destroying a population is powerful than you have big problems and that is the problem with israHell.

You go around creating HELL in the Muslim world and expect Muslims to accept it?
Educate yourself!
(7) 2006-06-16 09:30:39
Shazia: Quote

So because jews had a tough time with Hitler they thought they would do what Hitler did to them to the Palestinians and thats not revenge is it? They should not be occupying land that rightfully belongs to the Palestinians as the UN resolution clearly states - Hamas will not recognise thier right to exist nor should they if israelis will not roll over and die niether will Palestnians!!! Occupation is a crime! israel wants all the land that belongs to Palestine they dont want to share live side by side they have built this wall devasting families. A woman who went there just last month said that the wall has blocked off green land that children use to play on now they have no where to go- israeli children sit in roads to block Palestinains from going about thier business and HURL stones at passing cars no one takes them into police stations yet the first Palestinian to be standing by a stone will be in for it. If i was a Jew i would never live in isarel it signifies evil and all that is wrong with the world!!!!
(8) 2006-06-16 12:33:59
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