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Kucinich Speaks Against Israel Resolution
“We Must Take a New Direction in the Middle East”
WASHINGTON, D.C. (January 9, 2009) -- Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today spoke out against a resolution affirming U.S. support for Israel’s military action in Gaza. While a firm supporter of the people of Israel and a critic of rocket attacks by Hamas militants, Congressman Kucinich led opposition against the incomplete resolution.
H.Res. 34, “Supporting Israel in Its Battle with Terrorist Hamas,” is incomplete because it does not address the humanitarian crisis of Palestinians in Gaza, fails to insist on an immediate ceasefire, and neglects Israel’s potential violation of the Arms Export and Control Act which governs U.S. arms exports to foreign countries.
The Arms Export Control Act (AECA) requires that each nation that receives a shipment of arms from the United State must certify that the weapons are used for internal security and legitimate self-defense, and that their use does not lead to an escalation of conflict. Congressman Kucinich informed the administration of Israel’s possible violation of AECA through Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on January 6, 2009. Kucinich has yet to receive a response.
The full text of Congressman Kucinich’s statement follows:
January 9, 2009
“In Gaza, the United Nations gave the Israeli army the coordinates of a UN school, and the school was then hit by Israeli tank fire, killing about forty. The UN put flags on emergency vehicles, coordinating the movements of those vehicles with the Israeli military, and the vehicles came under attack, killing emergency workers. The Israeli army evacuated 100 Palestinians to shelter, and then bombed the shelter, killing thirty people.
“Emergency workers have been blocked by the Israeli army from reaching hundreds of injured persons. Today’s Washington Post: 100 survivors rescued in Gaza from roads blocked from Israelis. Relief agencies fear more are trapped, days after neighborhood was shelled. Today, the U.S. Congress is going to be asked to pass a resolution supporting Israel’s actions in Gaza. I’m hopeful that we don’t support the inhumanity that has been repeatedly expressed by the Israeli army. The U.S. abstained from a UN call for a ceasefire. We must take a new direction in the Middle East, and that new direction must be mindful of the inhumane conditions in Gaza.
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... and get this guy to serve as president and McKinney to serve as vice president... Swanson can be Press secretary, Finkelstein as Middle East envoy. Howard Zinn as secretary of State, Chomsky as Ambassador to the UN.
I will serve as secretary of defense and eventually overthrow the newly formed government in a bloody coup because deep down I am probably as corruptable as Barack Obama, I just don't know it yet.
See what happens? I became a despot while just talking about it... we're doomed. Doomed I say! DOOMED!
It appears your correct Obama is corrupted..
Religion,race,or income are not immune to corruption...
I do believe Kucinich and McKinney are the only ones that can turn things around..
President Kucinich and Vice President McKinney..the only hope for America and the World..
We need leaders now,,
We need somebody that puts humanity FIRST and LAST....
That puts AMERICA FIRST and works with the WORLD..
Time to expose the script of the rich,corrupt and evil,and that includes the MSM whom I believe is very involved with the corruption and hold them most responsible..
The link between the people and government...
Hey kidz!!! Remember when "Collective Punishment" = WAR CRIMES??? . . .
(clipped section of The Geneva Conventions)
"Convention (IV) relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War. Geneva, 12 August 1949.
Part III : Status and treatment of protected persons #Section I : Provisions common to the territories of the parties to the conflict and to occupied territories
ARTICLE 33
No protected person may be punished for an offence he or she has not personally committed.
Collective penalties and likewise all measures of intimidation or of terrorism are prohibited.
Pillage is prohibited. Reprisals against protected persons and their property are prohibited."
(link to Geneva Conventions resource site)
http://www.icrc.org/ihl.nsf/c525816bde96b7fd41256739003e636a/72728b6de56...
But, I guess when the "Master Race" does it, it isn't against the law, now is it??? . . .;-)
(clipped headline and article from The Jerusalem Post)
"Eliyahu Advocates Carpet Bombing Gaza - All civilians living in Gaza are collectively guilty for Kassam attacks on Sderot, former Sephardi chief rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu has written in a letter to Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.
Eliyahu ruled that there was absolutely no moral prohibition against the indiscriminate killing of civilians during a potential massive military offensive on Gaza aimed at stopping the rocket launchings.
According to Jewish war ethics, wrote Eliyahu, an entire city holds collective responsibility for the immoral behavior of individuals. In Gaza, the entire populace is responsible because they do nothing to stop the firing of Kassam rockets. . . .
. . .In the letter, Eliyahu quoted from Psalms. 'I will pursue my enemies and apprehend them and I will not desist until I have eradicated them.'"
(full story)
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1180527966693&pagename=JPost%...
Sooo, when do we get to add "The Palestinian Wing" to the National Holocaust(TM) Museum, kidz? Why don't we ALL call call and ask them??? . . .;-)
"United States Holocaust Mememorial Museum"
http://www.ushmm.org/
http://web.ushmm.org/site/c.klKQLcMVIqG/b.3938259/k.2B83/Contact_Us.htm
"Yeah, my blood’s so mad feels like coagulatin’
I’m sitting here just contemplatin’
I can’t twist the truth, it knows no regulation.
Handful of senators don’t pass legislation
And marches alone can’t bring integration
When human respect is disintegratin’
This whole crazy world is just too frustratin’"
- Eve Of Destruction by Barry McGuire/P.F. Sloan
peace.
EXCELLENT!! You have spoken the criminal truth of this matter.