Carte Blanche for War Crimes Passes Senate Unanimously
By William Boardman -- Reader Supported News
U.S. alone in vote against investigation of crimes against humanity
Is there any doubt that Israelis and Palestinians have been committing war crimes and crimes against each other's humanity for decades?
Objectively, that seems to be a plain fact, with particular relevance to Israel, whose existence was made possible by, among other things, acts of terror. Nowadays Israel objects, with no apparent sense of irony, when Palestinians seeking their own state also resort to acts of terror. Terrorism is a tactic of the relatively weak (as is non-violence) that sometimes seems to produce the desired result, as did Irgun's bombing of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem in 1946 that left 91 dead.
Weighing the merits of war criminals on any side is a fool's game. But those playing this game include almost everyone involved with the Israeli-Palestinian struggle, as each pretends to ride a moral high horse that no longer exists, if it ever did.
Logically enough, under present conditions of mostly indiscriminate killing, the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva met in special session to consider this war crimes question on July 23. The council reviewed and later adopted a resolution captioned: "Ensuring respect for international law in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem." The council issued a four-page assessment of regional conditions and approved one decision:
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