palestine

Israeli media revealed ... that one of the first acts of Ismail Haniyeh, the Hamas prime minister elected in 2006, was to send a message to the Bush White House offering a long-term truce in return for an end to Israeli occupation. His offer was not even acknowledged.

Instead, according to the daily Jerusalem Post, Israeli policymakers have sought to reinforce the impression that “it would be pointless for Israel to topple Hamas because the population [of Gaza] is Hamas”. On this thinking, collective punishment is warranted because there are no true civilians in Gaza.

TOTAL DEATHS SINCE SEPT 2000:

Israeli children: 123
Palestinian children: 1050

TOTALS FOR 2000:

Israeli children: 0
Palestinian children: 91

In December 2009, the U.N. General Assembly passed 18 resolutions on “The Question of Palestine” which, among other things: reaffirmed the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people over their natural resources, including land and water; reaffirmed the right of the Palestinian people to self-determination and their independent State of Palestine; reaffirmed that the Fourth Geneva Convention is applicable to the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem; and reaffirmed that Israel’s settlements in Palestinian territory, including East Jerusalem, are illegal and an obstacle to peace and economic and social development. The United States under President Barack Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and Ambassador Rice, voted against each of these resolutions. Overall, Obama, Clinton, and Rice, by voting with Israel, voted against 16 of 18 General Assembly resolutions in 2009, which were otherwise approved by an overwhelming majority of U.N. member states...

Likewise, in 2010, the General Assembly passed 16 resolutions concerning The Question of Palestine, including those reaffirming Palestinian sovereignty over their own natural resources, the right of Palestinian self-determination to an independent state, the applicability of the Fourth Geneva Convention to Israel’s occupation, and the illegality of Israel’s settlements under the Fourth Geneva Convention. As in 2009, Obama, Clinton, and Rice voted against these resolutions, and overall voted against 14 of 16 General Assembly resolutions on Palestine in 2010, all of which passed with a huge majority of votes...

Thus, Rice and her bosses, Obama and Clinton, have supported not a single General Assembly resolution on The Question of Palestine, and voted with Israel on 30 of the 34 resolutions over the two-year period.

Number of Palestinian children killed as a result of Israeli military and settler presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territories:

2000 94
2001 98
2002 192
2003 130
2004 162
2005 52
2006 124
2007 50
2008 112
2009 315
2010 8
TOTAL 1337

WikiLeaks documents including the Iraq and Afghanistan War Logs, and the diplomatic cables show -

• That US troops kill civilians without cause or concern and then cover it up (more examples of hiding civilian killings here, here and here) included killing reporters;
• The CIA is fighting an undeclared and unauthorized war in Pakistan with Blackwater mercenaries;
• The president of Afghanistan is not trustworthy, that Afghanistan is rife with corruption and drug dealing;
• The Pakistan military and intelligence agencies aid al-Qaeda and the Taliban;
• The US looks the other way when governments it puts in power torture;
• The diplomatic cables also show that, beyond the war fronts, Hillary Clinton has turned State Department Foreign Service officers into a nest of spies, who violate laws to spy on diplomats, all with marching orders drawn up by the CIA;
• That Israel, with US knowledge is preparing for a widespread war in the Middle East, keeping the Gaza economy at the brink of collapse, and show widespread corruption at border checkpoints.