New York Times Reports that the Red Cross Says Israel Disregards Humanitarian Law
By STEVEN ERLANGER
Comment by David Duke — Once again, an impartial international body has condemned Israel for its gross violation of human rights, but as usual the United States supports Israel and its illegal and brutal occupation (and theft). The NY Times reports that a Red Cross study and report has shown that Israel not only has cruelly occupied the West Bank for 40 years, violating many UN resolutions, including one America originally supported, but has continued to steal the lands, businesses, and homes of the hapless Palestinians who suffer there. In the Gulf War, we went to war against Iraq for invading and occupying Kuwait, but how does the Zionist-influenced U.S. Government react to a brutal 35 year Israeli occupation of the West Bank? Answer: it sends Israel more of our hard-earned American taxpayer’s money! Is it no wonder that people around the world are coming to despise America, but when are the American people going to wake up to the damage these Jewish extremists are doing to America?
With the construction of the separation barrier, the establishment of an outer ring of Jewish settlements beyond the expanded municipal boundaries and the creation of a dense road network linking the different Israeli neighborhoods and settlements in and outside Jerusalem, the report says, Israel is “reshaping the development of the Jerusalem metropolitan area” with “far-reaching humanitarian consequences.” Those include the increasing isolation of Palestinians living in Jerusalem from the rest of the West Bank and the increasing difficulty for some Palestinians to easily reach Jerusalem’s schools and hospitals.
The Red Cross committee, which is recognized as a guardian of humanitarian law under the Geneva Conventions of 1949, does not publish its reports but provides them in confidence to the parties involved and to a small number of countries. This report was provided to The New York Times by someone outside the organization who wanted the report’s conclusions publicized. The leak came just days before Israel’s celebration of Jerusalem Day this Wednesday, observing the 40th anniversary of the unification of the city.
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