PatternMaster Posted November 29, 2023 Author Report Share Posted November 29, 2023 https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/10/16/israeli-forces-killed-abu-akleh-without-justification-un-inquiry-says Israeli forces used “lethal force without justification” when they shot and killed Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh in the occupied West Bank, violating her “right to life”, according to a new report by a UN-mandated investigative body. The UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem and Israel “concluded on reasonable grounds that Israeli forces used lethal force without justification under international human rights law”, it said in a report released on Monday. Abu Akleh, a Palestinian-American and acclaimed correspondent for the Doha-based media network, was shot in the head while covering an Israeli military raid on the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank in May 2022 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamie_B Posted November 29, 2023 Report Share Posted November 29, 2023 The IDF is guilty of alot of stuff that is ugly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
claptonrocks Posted November 29, 2023 Report Share Posted November 29, 2023 37 minutes ago, Jamie_B said: The IDF is guilty of alot of stuff that is ugly. Both sides have. It's all ugly there now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PatternMaster Posted November 29, 2023 Author Report Share Posted November 29, 2023 17 hours ago, PatternMaster said: We are currently living in a country that does that...it doesn't happen to people who look like you but it does happen to people who look like me and other "minorities"... Kalief spent 3 years in Rikers, one of the most violent prisons in the world, for a crime he was never convicted of and was released because of a lack of evidence. He eventually hung himself because of depression caused by spending 2 years in solitary confinement for a crime he didn't commit. He's just one of many unfortunate souls who have been unfairly imprisoned because of racism. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
claptonrocks Posted November 29, 2023 Report Share Posted November 29, 2023 17 minutes ago, PatternMaster said: Kalief spent 3 years in Rikers, one of the most violent prisons in the world, for a crime he was never convicted of and was released because of a lack of evidence. He eventually hung himself because of depression caused by spending 2 years in solitary confinement for a crime he didn't commit. He's just one of many unfortunate souls who have been unfairly imprisoned because of racism. Yes imprisoned because of race has been a sad note in USA history. I have to believe in todays society the times are changing to eradicate it. Hopefully I'm right on this one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PatternMaster Posted November 29, 2023 Author Report Share Posted November 29, 2023 https://www.newarab.com/news/who-are-palestinian-children-released-israeli-jail Quote Thirty-nine Palestinian prisoners were released on Friday, including 17 children. According to the Palestinian Prisoners Club, the children who were imprisoned by Israel were born between the years 2005-2007. Several of them had spent most of their teenage years inside an Israeli jail. The most prominent charges used by Israel to justify its detention of Palestinian children were throwing stones, crowding or assembling, and graffiti stones. Defence for Children International - Palestine has reported that Israeli forces detain, interrogate, prosecute, and imprison 500-700 Palestinian children between the ages of 12-17 each year. Israel has currently detained 7,200 Palestinian prisoners, including 250 children. Of those minors, 26 are in administrative detention - held without trial and with no time limit. This is beyond fucked up, imprisioning a child for throwing a stone and holding them indefinitely without a trial is pure evil. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
claptonrocks Posted November 30, 2023 Report Share Posted November 30, 2023 19 hours ago, PatternMaster said: https://www.newarab.com/news/who-are-palestinian-children-released-israeli-jail This is beyond fucked up, imprisioning a child for throwing a stone and holding them indefinitely without a trial is pure evil. Noone is beyond guilt in this war. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homer_Rice Posted December 1, 2023 Report Share Posted December 1, 2023 Matters are almost always more complicated than they seem. Anyhow, Joe Biden thanks you for your support, clapton!! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PatternMaster Posted December 1, 2023 Author Report Share Posted December 1, 2023 1 hour ago, Homer_Rice said: Matters are almost always more complicated than they seem. Anyhow, Joe Biden thanks you for your support, clapton!! Can't wait for Hunter's congressional testimony, should be interesting. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamie_B Posted December 1, 2023 Report Share Posted December 1, 2023 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
claptonrocks Posted December 1, 2023 Report Share Posted December 1, 2023 48 minutes ago, Jamie_B said: You always post liberal slants. You have blinders with anything bipartisan . One trick pony with your views. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
claptonrocks Posted December 1, 2023 Report Share Posted December 1, 2023 8 hours ago, Homer_Rice said: Matters are almost always more complicated than they seem. Anyhow, Joe Biden thanks you for your support, clapton!! Allways willing to oblige Homer..😎 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamie_B Posted December 2, 2023 Report Share Posted December 2, 2023 2 hours ago, claptonrocks said: You always post liberal slants. You have blinders with anything bipartisan . One trick pony with your views. The NYT does good reporting 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homer_Rice Posted December 2, 2023 Report Share Posted December 2, 2023 Yanis Varoufakis: “As Bombs Are Raining Down on Gaza Again, It Is No Longer About Hamas or Netanyahu. It Is About OUR Humanity Being Tested 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PatternMaster Posted December 15, 2023 Author Report Share Posted December 15, 2023 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/15/biden-extremist-jewish-settlers-travel-ban-loophole Quote Hadar Susskind, president of Americans for Peace Now, said these settlers militias draw inspiration from two Americans infamous as the godfathers of the campaign of violence against ordinary Palestinians. An American doctor from Brooklyn, Baruch Goldstein, murdered 29 Muslim worshippers in the West Bank city of Hebron in 1994. Goldstein was a follower of another American, Rabbi Meir Kahane, founder of the far-right religious Kach party that was eventually banned in Israel and the US under anti-terrorism laws. “If you asked who are the most prominent examples of literally murderous violent settler extremism, the two answers are Goldstein and Kahane. Those people are the prophets of the settler movement,” said Susskind. “Earlier this year I led a trip to Israel and Palestine. We went to Hebron and stopped in Meir Kahane park where they have a shrine to Baruch Goldstein. His grave is there. It’s shocking that they have a public park named after an American whose party was declared so racist that it was not allowed to be in the Knesset, a person who espoused violence and hatred. And then a shrine to Baruch Goldstein who took those lessons from Kahane and actualised them in murdering a group of people at prayer.” Too often, Arabs get sterotyped and labeled as terrorist but when terrorist don't fit the mold we have cast them we as a country should still fight them the same way. For decades we have waged a war on terror but it seems as if we are exporting terrorist and don't doing anything to stop it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
claptonrocks Posted December 15, 2023 Report Share Posted December 15, 2023 2 hours ago, PatternMaster said: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/15/biden-extremist-jewish-settlers-travel-ban-loophole Too often, Arabs get sterotyped and labeled as terrorist but when terrorist don't fit the mold we have cast them we as a country should still fight them the same way. For decades we have waged a war on terror but it seems as if we are exporting terrorist and don't doing anything to stop it. Well said. .agree Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homer_Rice Posted December 16, 2023 Report Share Posted December 16, 2023 9 hours ago, PatternMaster said: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/15/biden-extremist-jewish-settlers-travel-ban-loophole Too often, Arabs get sterotyped and labeled as terrorist but when terrorist don't fit the mold we have cast them we as a country should still fight them the same way. For decades we have waged a war on terror but it seems as if we are exporting terrorist and don't doing anything to stop it. I earlier mentioned that two of my mentors died while I was sick. One of them was Norton Mezvinsky, under whom I studied at Central Connecticut. He co-wrote a classic, Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel, with Israel Shahak. Both were not well-liked (and often slandered) by Jewish fundies, but the book is well-worth a read if you are interested in the historical background of this. Lots of ink devoted to to Goldstein as well as Rabin. It isn't the variety of Abrahamic religion one adopts, it is the fundamentalists across all stripes which are the nut-case, murderous bastards. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PatternMaster Posted December 16, 2023 Author Report Share Posted December 16, 2023 1 hour ago, Homer_Rice said: I earlier mentioned that two of my mentors died while I was sick. One of them was Norton Mezvinsky, under whom I studied at Central Connecticut. He co-wrote a classic, Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel, with Israel Shahak. Both were not well-liked (and often slandered) by Jewish fundies, but the book is well-worth a read if you are interested in the historical background of this. Lots of ink devoted to to Goldstein as well as Rabin. It isn't the variety of Abrahamic religion one adopts, it is the fundamentalists across all stripes which are the nut-case, murderous bastards. Thanks for sharing, I will check it out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PatternMaster Posted December 19, 2023 Author Report Share Posted December 19, 2023 The US Sec of Defense is in Isreal to visit with the leaders of the country and express our governments desire for a peaceful resolution.. https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2023/12/18/Lloyd-Austin-Netanyahu-visit/3401702900258/?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter Quote Austin reiterated a position expressed by President Joe Biden and other U.S. officials to have Gaza and the West Bank be run by a reformed Palestinian Authority. "Israelis and Palestinians both deserve a horizon of hope," Austin said. "So, the United States continues to believe -- as we have under administrations of both parties -- that it is in the interest of both Israelis and Palestinians to move forward towards two states, living side by side and in mutual security." "We know how hard that is, especially after Oct. 7. But ongoing instability and insecurity only play into the hands of Hamas." Meanwhile...let's not forget about the money.... Quote In the meantime, Austin is expected to announce increasing U.S. protection for Arab states to combat the increasingly frequent Houthi attacks being mounted from Yemen's ports on commercial shipping in the Red Sea, The Guardian reported. Houthi attacks have already forced five big shipping companies to remove their ships from the Red Sea route because of the attacks. The Houthis have said they have increased the attacks to show support for Hamas in its fight against Israel. The Maersk shipping line, one of the largest shipping and logistics companies in the world with more than 100,000 employees stationed across over 130 countries, shut down its operations late last week. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homer_Rice Posted December 20, 2023 Report Share Posted December 20, 2023 Chris Hedges: The Death of Israel 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T-Dub Posted December 31, 2023 Report Share Posted December 31, 2023 On 12/15/2023 at 8:56 AM, PatternMaster said: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/15/biden-extremist-jewish-settlers-travel-ban-loophole Too often, Arabs get sterotyped and labeled as terrorist but when terrorist don't fit the mold we have cast them we as a country should still fight them the same way. For decades we have waged a war on terror but it seems as if we are exporting terrorist and don't doing anything to stop it. Outside of 9/11 the vast majority of terrorist acts committed in the US have been the work of white supremacists. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homer_Rice Posted January 11 Report Share Posted January 11 Anti-Jupiterite! Crimes By Israel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PatternMaster Posted January 29 Author Report Share Posted January 29 The Israel-Hamas war in maps: latest updates A visual guide to the war https://www.ft.com/content/42bbe534-8a0d-4ba8-9cc6-f84936d87196?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
claptonrocks Posted January 30 Report Share Posted January 30 On 12/30/2023 at 8:53 PM, T-Dub said: Outside of 9/11 the vast majority of terrorist acts committed in the US have been the work of white supremacists. Allways have to go to race don't you? Man u must really hate whites. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
claptonrocks Posted January 30 Report Share Posted January 30 On 1/11/2024 at 12:45 PM, Homer_Rice said: Anti-Jupiterite! Crimes By Israel Well fuckin sue them then. Crimes against humanities go both ways Homer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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