Gaza Strip: Benjamin Netanyahu Asks US Lawmakers to 'Help Israel Avoid War Crimes Charges'

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  By Jack Moore
  August 7, 2014 13:35 BS

US President Barack Obama and Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meet in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington.(Reuters)

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has asked US lawmakers to help Israeli officials defend a projected Palestinian legal campaign over alleged war crimes committed against the Gaza population.
It is believed that attempts will be made to bring Israel's military and political leaders in front of international courts such as the International Criminal Court (ICC).
Netanyahu made the remarks during a meeting with members of US Congress who are visiting Israel as guests on behalf of the US Israel lobby AIPAC.
"The prime minister asked us to work together to ensure that this strategy of going to the ICC does not succeed," Republican senator Steve Israel said.
Netanyahu "wants the US to use all the tools that we have at our disposal to, number one, make sure the world knows that war crimes were not committed by Israel, they were committed by Hamas. And that Israel should not be held to a double standard," the congressman said.
In his first press conference of the 72-hour ceasefire, Netanyahu told international journalists that Israel had taken "extraordinary measures" to avoid civilian casualties during 'Operation Protective Edge'.
He added the point: "Do terrorists have immunity because of the fear that some civilians may get hurt?"
"Imagine your territory is infiltrated by death squads. What would you do? What would you demand your government do to protect you and your family? What if the rockets are fired from civilian areas? Should you then not take action?"
"Mounting evidence" of war crimes
The IDF has started to prepare for a legal challenge as international opinion begins to turn on the country for shelling several UN schools where Palestinian civilians were ordered to take refuge from the conflict.
Human rights NGO Amnesty International, however, said that there is "mounting evidence" that the IDF conducted "deliberate attacks against hospitals and health professionals in Gaza".
Human Rights Watch (HRW) have also claimed that Israeli forces "fired on" fleeing civilians in "deliberate" attacks on those not participating in the fighting.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, has said there is a "strong possibility" that Israel is violating international law and had committed war crimes in Gaza.
The UN Human Rights Council recently voted in favour of creating a committee to investigate the allegations. Only the United States voted against its creation while European Union member states abstained.
Palestinians have long-held the leverage of taking Israel to the international courts but these efforts have been delayed as any potential legal challenge may be met by a counter-legal effort from Israel, possibly implicating some Palestinian leaders in the firing of rockets at Israel's civilian population.
However, this challenge now seems imminent as it is clear that Israel has more to lose in any investigation in comparison with the leaders of a designated terrorist organisation such as Hamas.
According to Palestinian officials, the death toll in Gaza has risen to 1,886 with 9,806 injured. The Israeli military has confirmed that 61 IDF soldiers were killed in their ground and air operation as well as two Israeli civilians and a Thai national.

MY COMMENTS on the ABOVE ARTICLE"

AND, since the US has 'TOTALLY METAMORPHOSED' in to a "LEASHED POODLE" of TERRORIST STATE of ISRAEL- It will ONCE AGAIN OBLIGE!

AND Not only this "permanently on a LEASH POODLE" of TERRORIST STATE ISRAEL- US, its other SMALLER "poodles" like UK, France, Germany etc. (the COMPLETE EURO / NATO block of So CALLED SOUVEREIGN nations!) will ALSO oblige this "PERENNIAL CANNIBAL" , the ZIONIST,SUPREMACIST,GHOULISH &TERRORIST state of ISRAEL and ‘THE DEVIL incarnate NETANYAHU’  may ONCE AGAIN mange to ESCAPE like his predecessor  - the Biggest and the most Ruthless ISRAELI terrorist – ARIEL SHARON had managed to escape from War-Crimes Charge for SEVERAL  GENOCIDES that he had inflicted on Palestinian Arabs like the ONE biggest and most BRUTAL GENOCIDE in Sabra and Chatila Refugee Camps in Lebanon ( 1982)Killing nearly 20,000 Palestinians and Lebanese  and the subsequent one in the Jenin Refugee Camp-2001 with an UNACCOUNTED number (Several Hundreds or Thousands? – it is unclear since Ariel Sharon had managed to HIDE that truth by NOT ALLOWING any Foreign Journalist in to the then “OCCUPIED GAZA”!) of  Civilian men , women and Children –with those Events beating ALL the previous RECORDS of BRUTALITY by  the MONSTROUS ISRAELI WAR  MACHINE; including those records  that were set in an earlier bygone Era by the  BARBARIANS !

The INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY now has a DUTY imposed on its “COLLECTIVE CONSCIENCE” after having witnessed the DELIBERATE BRUTAL BARBARIC GENOCIDE  that was inflicted on HELPLESS Palestinian Civilian men, women and MOST IMPORTANTLY Children as young as 2 years ( and some INFANTS TOO!) through its MERCILESS POUNDING of these innocent GAZAN citizens  who have been “ENTRAPPED by ISRAEL since 2007  inside an OPEN AIR PRISON  of less than 360 Square Kilometers which is what GAZA is, ( Just about 3% of the AREA of BANGALORE!) Through its LAND, AIR and SEA embargos on GAZA!

If, even now  after this BRAZEN show of SUSTAINED INHUMAN CANNIBALISM by the  ZIONIST SUPREMACIST, BARBARIC, SATANIC, GHOULISH, & a Terrorist state of ISRAEL, if the INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY does not raise its voice to MAKE Israel BOW DOWN to its DEMAND for a COMPLETE CEASEFIRE as well as for an unconditional LIFTING of its Inhuman and more importantly ILLEGAL “SIEGE” of Gaza and also to BRING NETANYAHU and ALL his  LACKEYS in the Israeli Government and Defence forces who have CLEARLY BEEN “Human Rights and War Criminals” even by the most liberal jurisprudence standards in the world, are QUICKLY BROUGHT to BOOK in the International Court at Hague and  if it does not REINFORCE the current  ECONOMIC BOYCOTT of ISRAEL on a sustained manner to eventually get Israel to sign a “Permanent Peace Accord with Palestine for a TWO NATION solution that the whole world has been advocating to both the parties to this Conflict, AN controllable International Muslim Rage over this BLATANT and CONTINUED injustice to them by ISRAEL and its whole group of,  above referred, “POODLE nations” may result in permanent DESTABLISING of  WORLD peace by SELF STYLED TERRORIST GROUPS who may grab this opportunity that ISRAEL and its supporters have ALREADY given to them on a PLATTER!