Tag: Israel

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2009-07-05 Look, Israel can determine for itself -- it's a sovereign nation -- what's in their interest and what they decide to do relative to Iran and anyone else.

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Whether we agree or not. They're entitled to do that. Any sovereign nation is entitled to do that. But there is no pressure from any nation that's going to alter our behavior as to how to proceed.

What we believe is in the national interest of the United States, which we, coincidentally, believe is also in the interest of Israel and the whole world. And so there are separate issues.

If the Netanyahu government decides to take a course of action different than the one being pursued now, that is their sovereign right to do that. That is not our choice."
Joe Biden, Vice-President of the USA, interview with George Stephanopoulos, ABC News
2009-06-30 Israeli authorities intercepted the vessel, which was also carrying 21 pro-Palestinian activists, and said it would not be permitted to enter Gaza coastal waters because of security risks in the area and its existing naval blockade.
2009-06-14 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered a speech at Bar Ilan University near Tel Aviv. Netanyahu called on the Palestinians to resume Middle East peace talks without preconditions and presented three conditions for the establishment of a Palestinian state alongside Israel.
2009-03 "From the testimonies that we've gathered, lots of demolitions - buildings demolished either by bulldozers or explosives - were done after the area was under Israeli control."
-- Yehuda Shaul, member of Breaking the Silence, an Israeli group that gathers and circulates the testimonies of Israeli soldiers, told BBC News
2009-03 Israeli forces engaged in "wanton destruction" of Palestinian homes during the recent conflict in Gaza.
-- According to human rights investigators
2009-03 "Unless those operating on the ground felt not just 100% but 200% secure - that the places were not booby trapped, that they wouldn't come under fire - they could not have got out of the vehicles.
They would not have used that method
[of anti-tank mines. Troops would have had to leave their armoured vehicles to plant them and rig up the detonators].
The use of the method tells us even more that there wasn't the kind of danger that might have made it lawful to destroy some of those properties."
-- Donatella Rovera, the head of the Amnesty International fact-finding mission to southern Israel and Gaza
2009-03 Wanton destruction on a large scale would qualify as a war crime."
-- Donatella Rovera, the head of the Amnesty International fact-finding mission to southern Israel and Gaza
2009-01-30 "I was just told by the Spanish foreign minister that Spain decided to change the legislation
In order to change the possibility of different organisations, political organisations, to abuse the legal system in Spain in order to put charges against Israelis and others that are fighting terror."
-- Tzipi Livni, Foreign Minister of Israel, told journalists after a telephone conversation with her Spanish counterpart Miguel Angel Moratinos
2009-01-29 The High Court in Spain is starting a war-crimes investigation into a former Israeli defense minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer and six of his military officials for the bombing in 2002 of a building in the Gaza Strip killing 14 civilians and Salah Shehada, a leader of the Hamas military wing.

2009-01-14 "Israel is practicing state terror, because it is using violence on a massive scale against Palestinian civilians for political purposes."
-- Avi Shlaim, a professor of international relations at Oxford University who served in the Israeli army in the mid-1960s, interview with Amy Goodman












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