Human Rights Watch Calls on Israel to Investigate "White Flag" Shootings of Gaza Civilians 1 of 2

Human Rights Watch released a report last week detailing new evidence of possible Israeli war crimes committed during last winters Operation Cast Lead in Gaza that left over 1,400 Palestinians dead. The report says Israeli soldiers unlawfully shot and killed at least eleven Palestinian civilians, including five women and four children, who were in groups waving white flags to make clear that they were civilians and not combatants. We speak to HRWs Fred Abrahams and air exclusive video from Gaza from Democracy Now!s Anjali Kamat and Big Noise Films Jacquie Soohen.

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[MajNorberg]

"Israel should have exploited the repression of the demonstrations in China, when world attention focused on that country, to carry out mass expulsions among the Arabs of the territories."

-- Benyamin Netanyahu, then Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister, former Prime Minister of Israel, speaking to students at Bar Ilan University, from the Israeli journal Hotam, November 24, 1989.

[MajNorberg]

"(The Palestinians) would be crushed like grasshoppers ... heads smashed against the boulders and walls."

-- Isreali Prime Minister (at the time) Yitzhak Shamir in a speech to Jewish settlers New York Times April 1, 1988

[MajNorberg]

"Let us not ignore the truth among ourselves ... politically we are the aggressors and they defend themselves... The country is theirs, because they inhabit it, whereas we want to come here and settle down, and in their view we want to take away from them their country."

-- David Ben Gurion First Prime Minister of Israel (1938 Speech).

[oceanbound222]

Zionism is evil

Zionism is evil

Zionism is evil

[gilraen789]

Ambassador Carmon, obfuscate much?