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Saturday, August 26, 2006 |
JerusalemPost: "The Rabbinical Council of America (RCA) has called on Israel to reevaluate its military rules of war in light of Hizbullah's 'unconscionable use of civilians, hospitals, ambulances, mosques and the like as human shields, cannon fodder and weapons of asymmetric warfare'.
Rabbi Basil Herring, executive vice president of the RCA, said the statement was not a halachic decision but rather 'our understanding of traditional Jewish values'.
Herring said that from reports and talks with injured soldiers and doctors, it appeared the IDF may have unnecessarily endangered its forces out of moral considerations.
Three weeks ago, Rabbi Dov Lior announced in the name of the Yesha Council of Rabbis that 'when our enemies hold a baby in one hand and shoot at us with the other, or when missiles are purposely aimed at civilian populations in the Land of Israel in blatant disregard for moral criteria, we are obligated to act according to Jewish morality, which dictates that he who gets up to kill you, get up yourself and kill him first'."
The least we can say about the above is that the RCA promotes war crimes.
ChristianNews: "If the fundamental meaning of fascism incorporates a sense of contempt for human life, denial of an individual's freedom and right in deciding ones fate, the adoption of cruel methods in oppressing and restraining people, then what President Bush and his band of merry men are doing in Iraq and Afghanistan; their support for the bloody attack on Lebanon where innocent women and children have been targeted; the torture within Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo Bay, and Afghan prisons; and not to forget the horror stories of kidnappings, torture, illegal renditions and abuse, make Bush and company indisputably the biggest and worse fascists and terrorists in history."
CommonDreams: "The State Department is investigating whether Israel's use of American-made cluster bombs in southern Lebanon violated secret agreements with the United States that restrict when it can employ such weapons, two officials said.
The investigation by the department's Office of Defense Trade Controls began this week, after reports that three types of American cluster munitions, anti-personnel weapons that spray bomblets over a wide area, have been found in many areas of southern Lebanon and were responsible for civilian casualties."
ICH: "President Carter's national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski said this, 'I think of war with Iran as the ending of America's present role in the world, that they will be dragged into a war that could last 20 to 30 years and that no-one could do it without destroying America's position on the planet'."
Yahoo: "A chief prosecutor of Nazi war crimes at Nuremberg has said George W. Bush should be tried for war crimes along with Saddam Hussein. Benjamin Ferenccz, who secured convictions for 22 Nazi officers for their work in orchestrating the death squads that killed more than 1 million people, told OneWorld both Bush and Saddam should be tried for starting 'aggressive' wars - Saddam for his 1990 attack on Kuwait and Bush for his 2003 invasion of Iraq."
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