Israel - time to cal the shots
| 05 Jun 2010: posted by the editor - Opinion | |
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Israel is a country that owes its very existence in modern times to the adherence to and acceptance of international law, as poor or undeveloped as that law might have been at the time of post world war two years. Yet over the past decades, Israel has repeatedly shown its contempt for international law and that contempt was at its height when armed Israeli forces stormed the Gaza aid flotilla on the high seas and butchered crew members aboard the vessels. The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay has repeatedly said Israel's blockade of Gaza is illegal and should be lifted and reiterated calls for an investigation into Israel's raid on aid supply ships this week. Yet the illegitimate actions of Israel have drawn little more than empty rhetoric from those nations who profess to stand by international laws. Those actions have been further compounded by Israel's blatant refusal to agree to a UN led inquiry, claiming it had the right to conduct its own inquiry into the events. That is a little like a deceitful policeman conducting his own inquiry into his own deceit. It is time for tough international action against a country currently governed by pariahs who must be shown that state-organised murder and unacceptable actions will not be tolerated and, where they are committed, will draw the harshest of penalties. |
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