ICC May Try IDF Officer In Wake Of Goldstone Gaza Report

By Yotam Feldman

(source:Haaretz)

A senior prosecutor at the International Criminal Court in The Hague said Monday that he is considering opening an investigation into whether Lt. Col. David Benjamin, an Israel Defense Forces reserve officer, allowed war crimes to be committed during the IDF’s three-week offensive in the Gaza Strip this winter.

The officer – a dual citizen of Israel and South Africa, where he was born – served in the Military Advocate General’s international law department, which authorized which targets troops would strike before and during the operation.

Newsweek magazine released an interview Monday with ICC Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo of Argentina in which he said he is convinced his office has the authority to launch an investigation into Benjamin’s actions.

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(source: MPAC-UK online)

Israel is controlling the American government and that’s why Americans are dying for their war, says former US Congressman James Traficant in a shocking expose on Fox News. He highlights that the influence the Israel lobby wields over American foreign policy has led to America carrying out the expansionary policy of Israel.

The Israeli lobby works around the clock to ensure that public debate on the issue of whether it is in America’s interest to uncritically back Israel is non-existent. Because these debates are effectively silenced, American policy continues to move in a direction that is against its interests.

The former Congressman further expands on this point, saying that "Arabs have exported violence to America and they have, They have no other way to fight." The power imbalance in military, diplomatic and economic force, coupled with the perception that the only reason that Israel can carry out its heinous policies is because of American backing, has meant that America is a target.

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 By Ali Abunimah

(source: The Electronic Intifada)

There is the old joke about a man who is endlessly searching on the ground beneath a street light. Finally, a neighbor who has been watching him asks the man what he is looking for. The man replies that he lost his keys. The neighbor asks him if he lost them under the streetlight. "No," the man replies, pointing into the darkness, "I lost them over there, but I am looking over here because here there is light!"

The intense focus on the "peace process" is a similarly futile search. Just because politicians and the media shine a constant light on it, does not mean that is where the answers are to be found.

The meeting hosted by US President Barack Obama with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Fatah leader Mahmoud Abbas at New York’s Waldorf Astoria hotel on 22 September signaled the complete and terminal failure of Obama’s much vaunted push to bring about a two-state solution to the Palestine/Israel conflict.

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