All the whining by the present so called world leaders just dont matter, your taxes are taken not given any more.

Subject:	All the whining by the present so called world leaders just dont matter, your taxes are taken not given any more.
Date:	Tue, 05 Jan 2010 12:26:29 GMT

ARE OUR LEADERS QUIETLY IGNORING ALL THIS HORROR AND CRUELTY BECAUSE THEY
ARE BEING PAID? ARE THEY SIMPLY CALLOUS OR GUTLESS? OR LIKE SARKOZY SO
FRIENDLY WITH JEWISH ISRAELI CRIMOS THAT THEY CANNOT BRING THEMSELVES TO
CASTIGATE THEIR FRIENDS?

HAS ANYONE NOTICED THAT THE LOBBY FOR JEWS HAVE TURNED INTO A SYCOPHANTIC
OBSEQUIOUS SERVILE TOADYING SUBSERVIENT GROVELLING FAWNING SLAVISH GROUP
WHICH DOES NOT REPRESENT DEFENCE OF DISCRIMINATION ANY MORE BUT THE BOUGHT
OUT POLITICIANS ARE MUCH MORE SERVILE.

THE ATTITUDE SEEMS TO BE MORE HOW MUCH CAN I SERVE YOU. AM I SERVILE ENOUGH.
DO YOU WISH TO PLACE YOUR FOOT ON MY HEAD TO SHOW HOW WILLING I AM TO DO
YOUR BIDDING AND SERVE YOU BETTER.

THE POSITION THEY NOW APPEAR TO WANT JEWISH LOBBYISTS TO HAVE IS TO PLACE
JEWS AS A NEW ROYALTY ABOVE THE LAW AND NOT TO BE CRITICISED IN ANY WAY
WHETHER THE CRITICISM IS TRUE OR NOT.

"samson" wrote in message
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On 4 January 2009, one year ago today, Iyad Samouni, his wife, and
five children were together with about 40 other members of their
extended family in the house of Asaad Samouni, a relative.

At around 1am, they heard noise on the roof. At about 5am, Israeli
soldiers walked down the stairs from the roof, knocked on the door,
and entered the house. They asked for Hamas fighters. The residents
replied that there were none.

Stationing themselves in the house, soldiers separated women, children
and the elderly from the men. Iyad and all the other men were forced
into a separate room, blindfolded and bound with plastic handcuffs.
They were allowed to use the bathroom only after one of the men
urinated on himself.

The next morning, Iyad and everyone in Asaad's house walked out and
down Al-Samouni Street to take Salah Ad-Din Street in the direction of
Gaza City. They had been instructed by the soldiers to walk directly
there without stopping or diverting from the direct route. The men
were still handcuffed and the soldiers had told them that they would
be shot if they attempted to remove the handcuffs.

On Salah Ad-Din Street, a single or several of the Israeli soldiers
opened fire positioned on the roofs of houses. Iyad was struck in the
leg and fell to the ground. Muhammad Asaad Samouni, who was walking
immediately behind him, moved to help him, but an Israeli soldier on a
rooftop ordered him to walk on. When he saw the red point of a laser
beam on his body and understood that an Israeli soldier had taken aim
at him, he desisted.

The Israeli soldiers also fired warning shots at Muhammad Samouni's
father to prevent him from assisting Iyad to get back on his feet.
Iyad's wife and children were prevented from helping him by further
warning shots.

Fawzi Arafat, who was part of another group walking from the Al-
Samouni neighborhood to Gaza City, said he saw Iyad lying on the
ground, his hands shackled with white plastic handcuffs, blood pouring
from the wounds in his legs, begging for help. Arafat stated that he
yelled at an Israeli soldier "we want to evacuate the wounded man."
The soldier, however, pointed his gun at Iyad's wife and children and
ordered them to move on without him.

The final report produced by South African jurist Richard Goldstone's
UN Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict notes that witnesses who
spoke about Iyad "appeared to be profoundly traumatized by the
recollection of his pleading for help from his wife, children and
relatives.

Iyad's family and relatives were forced to abandon him and continue to
walk toward Gaza City. At Ash-Shifa hospital they reported his case
and those of the other dead and wounded left behind. Representatives
of the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) told them that the
Israeli armed forces were not permitting them to access the area.

Salah Samouni, who was part of a group up ahead of Iyad's, said that
"they were handcuffed, and one of them was hit with a bullet in the
foot and he profused [sic] blood for three days until he met with his
end."

A PRCS staff member told the UN mission that three days later, on 8
January 2009, medics were granted permission by Israeli armed forces
through the International Committee of the Red Cross to evacuate Iyad.
The PRCS staff member found him on the ground on Salah Ad-Din Street
in the place described by his relatives. He was still handcuffed. He
had been shot in both legs and had bled to death.

Iyad's family and relatives were forced to abandon him and continue to
walk toward Gaza City. At Ash-Shifa hospital they reported his case
and those of the other dead and wounded left behind. Representatives
of the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) told them that the
Israeli armed forces were not permitting them to access the area.

Salah Samouni, who was part of a group up ahead of Iyad's, said that
"they were handcuffed, and one of them was hit with a bullet in the
foot and he profused [sic] blood for three days until he met with his
end."

Sameer As-Sawafeary, another witness, recounted: "On Tuesday, the Red
Cross came . So we took the martyr and another martyr named Iyad Ezat
Samouni, who was [a] neighbor, who was lying on the ground. I told the
Red Crescent - or the Red Cross - that the body was Al-Samuni's body.
So they transported him on a stretcher."

Factual and legal findings

Goldstone's final report states: "Iyad al-Samouni was part of a large
group of civilians who were leaving their homes and walking towards
Gaza City in an area under the complete control of the Israeli armed
forces. His hands were tied with white plastic handcuffs.

"The soldier who opened fire on him should have known, on the basis of
the plastic handcuffs if not of coordination with his fellow soldiers
stationed in Asaad al-Samouni's house a few hundred metres away, that
he had been searched and detained by the Israeli armed forces. In
opening fire on Iyad al-Samouni, the Israeli armed forces shot
deliberately at a civilian who posed no threat to them."

The report adds: "While the fire directed at Iyad al-Samouni could
have been intended to incapacitate rather than to kill, by threatening
his family members and friends with lethal fire, the Israeli armed
forces ensured that he did not receive lifesaving medical help. They
deliberately let him bleed to death."

According to the report, the fundamental principles applicable to
these incidents, which are cornerstones of both treaty-based and
customary international humanitarian law, are that "the parties to the
conflict shall at all times distinguish between the civilian
population and combatants" and that "the civilian population as such,
as well as individual civilians, shall not be the object of attack."

Israel refers to the principle of distinction as "the first core
principle of the Law of Armed Conflict." It further states that "the
IDF's emphasis on compliance with the Law of Armed Conflict was also
directly incorporated into the rules of engagement for the Gaza
Operation." The principle of distinction was reportedly incorporated
in the following terms: "Strikes shall be directed against military
objectives and combatants only. It is absolutely prohibited to
intentionally strike civilians or civilian objects (in contrast to
incidental proportional harm)."

In reviewing the above incident the Goldstone mission found in that
the Israeli armed forces had carried out a direct, intentional strike
against a civilian. The mission found that, on the basis of the facts
it was able to ascertain, there were no grounds which could have
reasonably induced the Israeli armed forces to assume that the Iyad
was in fact taking a direct part in the hostilities and had thus lost
his immunity against direct attacks.

Goldstone's team found that Israel's army violated the prohibition
under customary international law that the civilian population as such
will not be the object of attacks, as well as fundamental guarantees
in the Fourth Geneva Convention. "The State of Israel would be
responsible under international law for these internationally wrongful
actions carried out by its agents," the report states.

It adds: "From the facts ascertained, the Mission finds that the
conduct of the Israeli armed forces in these cases would constitute
grave breaches of the Fourth Geneva Convention in respect of wilful
killings and wilfully causing great suffering to protected persons and
as such give rise to individual criminal responsibility."

Israeli forces denied medical emergency services access to the
wounded, the report notes. "In the case of Iyad al-Samouni, finally,
the relatives who wanted to assist him were threatened with being shot
themselves."

Goldstone's report also recalls that "In all circumstances [the
wounded] shall be treated humanely and shall receive, to the fullest
extent practicable and with the least possible delay, the medical care
and attention required by their condition. ."

"The facts ascertained by the Mission establish that in the incidents
investigated the Israeli armed forces did not use their best efforts
to provide humanitarian organizations access to the wounded. On the
contrary, the facts indicate that, while the circumstances permitted
giving access, the Israeli armed forces arbitrarily withheld it.

"On this basis, the Mission finds a violation of the obligation under
customary international law to treat the wounded humanely."

The section on Iyad's family concludes: "The conduct of the Israeli
armed forces amounted to violations of the right to life where it
resulted in death, and to a violation of the right to physical
integrity, and to cruel and inhuman treatment in other cases."