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Idf soldier posts40of blindfold palestinians on facebook from best time of my life

(source: Haaretz)

Female soldier smiles for camera in front of bound prisoners, before joking online with friends; army calls photos ‘ugly and callous’.

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Photo posted by a former IDF soldier on Facebook.

A former Israel Defense Forces soldier has raised a storm on the internet after posting photographs of herself posing next to blindfold Palestinian prisoners on Facebook. Photographs uploaded by Eden Abergil from Ashdod and labeled "IDF – the best time of my life" show her smiling next to Palestinian prisoners with their hands bound and their eyes covered.

"That looks really sexy for you," says a comment posted by one of Abergil’s friends on the social networking site, alongside a picture or the soldier smiling in front of two blindfold men.  Abergil’s repose, posted below, reads: "I wonder if he is on Facebook too – I’ll have to tag him in the photo."

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Photograph with Palestinian prisoner uploaded by former IDF soldier to Facebook.

Because Abergil was discharged a year ago, the army has no power to prevent her from publicizing the photographs.

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Us foreign policy caused the taliban problem

 U.S. Foreign Policy Caused the Taliban Problem


by Jacob G. Hornberger

May 8, 2009
Future of Freedom Foundation

U.S. officials are now concerned not only with a Taliban resurgence in Afghanistan but also a Taliban takeover in Pakistan. These problems, however, were caused by the U.S. Empire itself.

While most Americans now view President Bushs Iraq War as a bad war, the common perception is that Bushs invasion of Afghanistan was a good war (despite the fact that he went to war without the constitutionally required congressional declaration of war). The notion is that the U.S. government was justified in invading Afghanistan and ousting the Taliban regime from power because the Taliban and al-Qaeda conspired to commit the 9/11 attacks.

Theres just one big problem with that belief: its unfounded.

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Justice in Gaza

By RICHARD GOLDSTONE

(source: NewYork Times)

I accepted with hesitation my United Nations mandate to investigate alleged violations of the laws of war and international human rights during Israel’s three-week war in Gaza last winter. The issue is deeply charged and politically loaded. I accepted because the mandate of the mission was to look at all parties: Israel; Hamas, which controls Gaza; and other armed Palestinian groups. I accepted because my fellow commissioners are professionals committed to an objective, fact-based investigation.

But above all, I accepted because I believe deeply in the rule of law and the laws of war, and the principle that in armed conflict civilians should to the greatest extent possible be protected from harm. Read More »Justice in Gaza