Israeli Army begins PROSECUTING Israeli Troops who fought in Gaza War

[Maimonides]

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ioi_0jtO9RjMwPNRoXNCndRPRq3gD9GPIGI81

JERUSALEM — Israel's military says several troops who fought in last year's devastating Gaza war will face disciplinary measures and prosecution.

In a statement, Israel's chief military prosecutor said Tuesday an infantryman will be prosecuted for manslaughter for his role in the deaths of two Palestinian women reportedly holding white flags.

The prosecutor also says a battalion commander was disciplined for allowing his soldiers to use a Palestinian as a human shield. Another officer was disciplined for ordering an airstrike close to a mosque.[/size]

Israel launched the offensive in late 2008 to halt rocket fire. The fighting killed 1,400 Gazans, many of them civilians, and drew a barrage of international criticism, including a scathing U.N. inquiry.

THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.

JERUSALEM (AP) — Jewish settlements control more than 42 percent of the West Bank, and much of that land was seized from Palestinian landowners in defiance of an Israeli Supreme Court ban, an Israeli human rights group said Tuesday.

The group's findings echo what other anti-settlement activists have claimed in the past: That settlements have taken over lands far beyond their immediate perimeters, sometimes from private Palestinians. Israel's settlements have been a much-criticized enterprise throughout the decades and a major obstacle to peacemaking with the Palestinians.

"The extensive geographic-spatial changes that Israel has made in the landscape of the West Bank undermine the negotiations that Israel has conducted for 18 years with the Palestinians and breach its international obligations," the B'Tselem group said in a summary of its report.

Settlers disputed the figures and said the report by the B'Tselem group was politically motivated. Israeli officials had no comment.

The report was based on official state documents, including military maps and a military settlement database, the B'Tselem said.

Although the actual buildings of the settlements cover just 1 percent of the West Bank's land area, their jurisdiction and regional councils extends to more than 42 percent, the group added.

Twenty-one percent of the land for these settlements was seized from Palestinian landowners, much of it after Israel's Supreme Court outlawed the practice in 1979.

Dani Dayan, chairman of the settlers council, said settlements control just 9.2 percent of the West Bank, not 42 percent.

"It's a political report by an organization that has been taken over the most radical anti-Israel elements," Dayan said. "The whole point is to sabotage the meeting between (Israeli Prime Minister) Benjamin Netanyahu and Barack Obama."

Netanyahu was en route Tuesday to Washington, where he was due to meet with Obama later in the day to discuss advancing peacemaking and other regional issues.

Some 300,000 Jews live in West Bank settlements and an additional 180,000 live in Jewish neighborhoods in east Jerusalem. Israel captured both territories from Jordan in the 1967 Mideast war, along with the Gaza Strip.

The Palestinians envision all three areas for a future state.

The modern secular state of Israeli is an insane asylum!

[Kahane-Was-Right BT]

 

[IsraeliGovtAreKapos]

The Israeli Destruction Forces

[nopeaceforland]

It's truly a sad day when we can't protect ourselves without the Useless Nations or Hussein Osama or some other coon on a power trip saying something.

[AsheDina]

Please forgive me, but it is bad enough in America, WHY at this time would I want to go to Israel.
Sorry, this is how this makes me feel. It is JUST LIKE America.

[Rubystars]

Please forgive me, but it is bad enough in America, WHY at this time would I want to go to Israel.
Sorry, this is how this makes me feel. It is JUST LIKE America.

I'm glad you're in the USA. We need smart patriotic people like you and David!

[IsraeliGovtAreKapos]

Please forgive me, but it is bad enough in America, WHY at this time would I want to go to Israel.

Because Israel is home and America is the Exile?!

[Yaacov Ben Yehuda]

sad

[muman613]

This is terrible news... I just saw a story in the LA Times which says that this indictment validates the accursed Goldstone Report.... On the LA Times website already 2 comments are vile anti-semitic screeds...

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-gaza-war-crimes-20100708,0,6407678.story


la-fg-gaza-war-crimes-20100708

Reporting from Jerusalem —
A short but growing list of criminal indictments and disciplinary actions stemming from Israel's offensive in the Gaza Strip 18 months ago is raising a prospect that many Israelis are likely to find unsettling: that the controversial Goldstone report might have been on the right track after all.

The conclusion last year by the United Nations-appointed panel that Israel committed war crimes, targeted civilians and used disproportionate force sent shockwaves through Israel. The facts and findings were dismissed by the government as deeply flawed, and panel chairman Richard Goldstone, a Jewish jurist from South Africa, was reviled in Israel as a traitor and even anti-Semitic.

The government says the recent disciplinary actions do not shake its opposition to the report's sweeping conclusions. But the military's own investigations during the last six months have now verified some of the panel's findings.


I just posted two responses... If anyone would like to back me up, please feel free to do so..

I am IsraelsAdvocate @ http://discussions.latimes.com/20/lanews/la-fg-gaza-war-crimes-20100708/10

[Lewinsky Stinks, Dr. Brennan Rocks]

Not surprised. It could be worse though. In the United States several soldiers have been charged with capital murder and are facing the death penalty for killing the Amalekite Iraqi Nazi demons.

[Kahane-Was-Right BT]

Please forgive me, but it is bad enough in America, WHY at this time would I want to go to Israel.
Sorry, this is how this makes me feel. It is JUST LIKE America.

In the Mishna Torah (Hilchot melachim u'milhamoth - Laws of kings and wars - 5:12), the Rambam (Maimonides) quotes the Talmud: “In all times, a Jew should live in the Land of Israel, even in a city where most of the inhabitants are idol worshippers, and not live outside of the Land, even in a city where most of the inhabitants are Jews.”

With this statement, he cites Kethuvoth 110B and brings it as a halacha lemaaseh, a practical halacha.   No better way to say it than Maimonides.