'Just World News' with Helena Cobban

will isreal pay compensagtionm for its destruction?It expects the germans to compensate them for ww2///Yet, they can kill and destroy with no financial compensation made.

At least they are all surely dead by now. In 2006 Israel bombed a Lebanese orphanage to rubble, trapping the wife and children of the director in the basement where they had gone for shelter from the bombardment. They refused to allow equipment into the area that could lift the rubble and free them, despite pleas from the orphanage director, and many others. I never found a followup to that story, so I do not know whether they managed to get them out before they suffocated to death, or died of dehydration or starvation down there, but can you imagine how it felt to that orphanage director and the other family members of that woman and her children knowing the means of rescue existed, was available, and that the Israelis were intentionally keeping them in that basement.

US: We will not use sanctions against Israel
Tags: ISRAEL
The US state department stressed on Friday that President Obama is not at all considering to impose economic sanctions on Israel when it fails to comply with US demands to end construction in settlements. The US is also not willing to consider mounting international pressure on Israel.

Webmaster's Commentary:
No matter how many times Netanyahu's government spits in Obama's face and tells him it's raining on the settlement issue, Obama will not use the one weapon he could potentially use for some leverage: US aid, both financial and military, to Israel.

By having that statement made by a State Department Official, Obama has just conceded that no matter what Israel does to the Palestinians (murder, siege, burning their crops, or evicting them and building illegal settlements where Palestinians used to live), he is catastrophically impotent when it comes to being an honest broker for peace.

Unflipping believable!
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comment from mike rivero at http://whatreallyhappened.com/

this is corruption of the highest or lowest order

Brian, I've just deleted two of your comments here because you were discourse hogging. If you have more to say than can fit in the constraints of the guidelines here, please found your own blog and come back here at appropriate intervals with a link to it.

discourse hogging helena? id call that rsponse censorship

Have you even read the guidelines, brian? This is my blog and you're here at my invitation. As I say, you can start your own blog and link to it a few times from here. That's not censorship. Costs of starting your blogging are nil. I am not obligated to host comments from you or anyone.

Remember the huge lengths Israel goes to to get hold of the body parts of every single Israeli citizen, including airmen downed in combat? Well, Palestinians honor their dead every bit as much.

I wish all Arab/Muslim regimes have this attention of HUMANITY towards their citizen.
I do not see any wrong of respecting a single human life and body who gave his blood for his nation.

What irritated me here with Helena double play, she did not talking about here state and how they did and doing same acts as same as Israelis.If Israelis looking for more than one dead/life solder body let not forgot and let refresh Helena memory with the story in regard to the US pilot went missing in 1991 when US start war on Iraq Michael Scott Speicher.
Helena look carefully to the timeframe this single US citizen how much attentions took and the huge lengths US goes to get hold of any info about ONE single man?Helena, is he Israeli?

The interrogators asked if Saddam knew the location of Captain Scott Speicher, a US pilot who went missing during the 1991 Gulf war.

When Blitzer asked Aziz about the fate of missing U.S. Navy pilot Michael Scott Speicher, Aziz answered that Speicher was killed in a crash on night one of the Gulf War.

Investigators have found the initials of Michael Scott Speicher -- "MSS" -- etched into a prison wall in downtown Baghdad.

"They are a strong family with one mission, which is to bring him home -- and they stay entirely focused on that," Speicher family attorney Cindy Laquidara told Fox News Thursday.

Piro also sought the answer to one of the biggest lingering mysteries of the 1991 Gulf war: the fate of Navy Capt. Scott Speicher, a fighter pilot listed at times by the Pentagon as either as missing in action or captured, and whose remains have never been recovered. Saddam said he recalled a “an American prisoner, not a prisoner, excuse me, but an American person. I think an officer,” whose plane went down in the western desert. “The Americans were looking for him,” he said, adding that he had granted permission for a search and told U.S. teams that “they are welcome.”

Finally Helena with your country occupying Iraq till now how many Iraqi missing and how many "Mass Graves" will be recovers after US leave Iraq time will tell, but stop the graves and excuses still playing up there as each Mass Grave open these day ohhhh look what the Tyrant did..... So easy answer for all killing in Iraq from 2003 and on going no one will tell the truth Helena....

It seems to me that the obsession with collecting bits and pieces of corpses is one thing; the matter of employing all reasonable efforts to rescue people who are trapped is something else.

The Israeli government is very cruel, it encourages its constituents to be cruel and it delights in hurting and humiliating its opponents.

These deaths in Gaza were all entirely avoidable tragedies which will reverberate for a very long time. Any sane person realises how dreadful each of these deaths was. What is difficult to understand is that, somewhere in Israeli society, while these children and old people were suffocating in agony, people were relishing their suffering; enjoying their agony.

But that must have been the case, because it would have been so easy and so obviously wise to have tried to intervene in order to assist.

In much the same way, allowing medicine supplies to flow inwards to Gaza and those in need of urgent medical attention to leave would also be very easy. And, in the world, good PR.

Israel however holds world opinion in utter contempt whilst it delights in showing off its swaggering ruthlessness and impressing on its people the importance of defying the morality of others and insisting on its freedom to do whatever it chooses. Dominated by politicians in the fascist tradition Israel, like Italy and Spain before it, is beginning to exhibit tendencies that are exceeedingly troubling.

The Arrivals showing how for the last 100 years the media create the ugly image about Arab, in this act they dehumanise any acts against them..

I think what happen today in Palestine, in Iraq and Afghanistan the solders even not told to shoot but the image they have in their back memory these are their enemy , which enemy here?

Any Palestinian, Iraqi, Afghani they facing.

Helena writes:
Remember the huge lengths Israel goes to to get hold of the body parts of every single Israeli citizen, including airmen downed in combat? Well, Palestinians honor their dead every bit as much. I can barely imagine the pain the families of these missing people must be experiencing.

They surely honor their dead, specially when they proudly send them on suicide missions. Like the father of the suicide bomber that killed 45 elderly Passover dinners at the Hotel in Netanyaha.
When the father was interviewed he said he only wished he had more sons to send as martyrs. Or when they dress their toddlers with suicide belts for family pictures and festivals.

Oh, and when they blow up, they don't ask for their body parts back, so there goes that lie. The US offered Mohammad Atta's remains and were declined in Egypt, same in Saudia Arabia.

Helena, I do not know where to put this story today.
Excuse me to leave it here.
While Israeli soldiers spoke about their crimes and orders took from their commanders during Gaza war, you post few times regard the Israeli solders spoken out about their crimes during the war.
Here now after six years yes six years not six months like what Israeli solders did, US solders now talking about their crimes and killing (our Mullah Scott, weak up your solders killers) here are these words as they spoken.
They spoken now after six years is due to they have sentenced for their crimes back on homeland as they hard for them to readjust back to Fee World Society!!
Read these US soldiers and their crimes in Iraq in their own words:

"Toward the end, we were so mad and tired and frustrated," said Daniel Freeman. "You came too close, we lit you up. You didn't stop, we ran your car over with the Bradley," an armored fighting vehicle.

With each roadside bombing, soldiers would fire in all directions "and just light the whole area up," said Anthony Marquez, a friend of Freeman in the 1st Battalion, 9th Infantry Regiment. "If anyone was around, that was their fault. We smoked 'em."

Taxi drivers got shot for no reason, and others were dropped off bridges after interrogations, said Marcus Mifflin, who was eventually discharged with post traumatic stress syndrome.

"You didn't get blamed unless someone could be absolutely sure you did something wrong," he said

Soldiers interviewed by The Gazette cited lengthy deployments, being sent back into battle after surviving war injuries that would have been fatal in previous conflicts, and engaging in some of the bloodiest combat in Iraq. The soldiers describing those experiences were part of the 3,500-soldier unit now called the 4th Infantry Division's 4th Brigade Combat Team.

"If I was just a guy off the street, I might have hesitated to shoot," Marquez told The Gazette in the Bent County Correctional Facility, where he is serving a 30-year prison term. "But after Iraq, it was just natural."

The Army trains soldiers to be that way, said Kenneth Eastridge, an infantry specialist serving 10 years for accessory to murder.

"The Army pounds it into your head until it is instinct: Kill everybody, kill everybody," he said. "And you do. Then they just think you can just come home and turn it off."