Sign petition to charge Hamas with War Crimes

[muman613]

This is an excellent idea:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/129765

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Worldwide Movement to Put Hamas on Trial for War Crimes
Shevat 10, 5769, 04 February 09 10:34
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu

(IsraelNN.com) The Take-a-Pen activist movement has launched a petition demanding that the United Nations place Hamas on trial for war crimes. The move, which already has gained more than 40,000 signatures, counters recent calls from Arab and Western countries that Israel be charged with war crimes in the Cast Lead campaign against terror in Gaza.

The petition charges Hamas with "shooting rockets and grenades purposely on civilian targets in Israel [and] from within Palestinian civilian compounds, such as schools or in close proximity of hospitals or residential buildings."

Among other charges are "storing weapons and ammunition in schools, mosques, public offices and buildings and... regularly using their own civilians as human shields, particularly children, often forced to be in the most dangerous spots."

The appeal also reminds U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon that Hamas has not respected international law by refusing to provide information or allow the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to have contact with kidnapped IDF soldier Gilad Shalit.

It warns that failing to prosecute Hamas will "lead to their war crimes growing to become normative behavior, and to more of the same humanitarian catastrophes, to millions of victims of oppression and killings undefended by the U.N."

Take-A-Pen, founded by Endre Mozes, describes itself as a "group of European and Israeli citizens concerned with the increasingly anti-Israel dominated media." It adds, "We are not part of any religious or political organization," and that its goal is "to educate at all levels, balance the media, improve public relations for Israel and perfect our Christian-Jewish alliance."
 
The group claims success in forcing several media outlets to apologize for slanderous articles and in deterring several anti-Israel movements.
 
The petition states, "In the recent years and in the present ongoing military conflict, the Hamas terrorist organization ruling in Gaza has committed a large number of diverse war crimes, as defined by International Law….

"The Hamas regime has fired 6,300 rockets targeting Israeli civilians. In Gaza, the Hamas stored rockets and other weaponry and ammunition primarily in residential areas; in houses, mosques, and schools. Thousands of rocket and mortar grenade attacks were launched from within these areas, obliging Israeli military response which inevitably led to great suffering of the population and damage to property.

"According to International Law any source of fire on civilian targets is a legitimate target itself…. In this case, Hamas is fully responsible both for the deliberately targeted Israeli civilian casualties and for the civilian casualties of its own population used by Hamas as a human shield."
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Sign the petition here : http://www.petitiononline.com/tap12009/petition.html

[Ben Yehuda]

Thanks for the post. 

[mord]

DONE

[zachor_ve_kavod]

At first, this seems like a great idea, but I won't do it, and I'll give you my reasons.  The United Nations is an anti-Semitic, corrupt organization, filled with the worst human garbage on the planet.  They spend more of their time criticizing Israel (the only country in the Middle East that is actually NOT guilty of war crimes) than they spend on any other issue.  It is an organization created in the nazi image.  They participated actively in the genocide in Rwanda, have done nothing about the genocide in Darfur, and they have the nerve to consider themselves a "human rights" organization.  Nothing could be further from the truth.

I'll be damned if I make an appeal to the UN for anything.  They are my enemy and they are the enemy of the Jewish people.  Over the last few weeks, they have fabricated stories about Israeli war crimes.  Did they mention Hamas' war crimes?  Even once?  Not only will this petition not go anywhere, it will have a destructive consequence, as Jews will be legitimizing this obscene organization by appealing to them.  I urge you not to make the mistake of legitimizing the UN.

Also, to accuse Hamas of war crimes is a little like accusing banks of banking.  It's absurd--this is what they do.  They are a terrorist organization.  They exist for the sole purpose of war crimes.  Also, charging them with a crime is ridiculous, because it implies that they are worthy of a trial.  It also implies that before these last few weeks, Hamas was not guilty of war crimes.

The only reason why it would make sense to sign this petition (and it is a somewhat dubious reason) is so that when the UN ignores this petition, they will be exposed for the arab loving frauds that they are.  There may be some merit to that, but don't we know that already?