LINK Don’t Blame Hamas for the Gaza Bloodshed | Human Rights Watch
On Friday, the United Nations Human Rights Council voted 29-2 to create an independent investigation into the shooting, a resolution that Israel rejected as reflecting what it calls an anti-Israel bias of the council.
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Yet under the international standards for policing demonstrations, even the use of rocks or firebombs does not justify lethal force, absent an imminent threat to life. It doesn’t matter whom the protesters support or who, if anyone, encouraged them to demonstrate. Lethal force can only be used when strictly necessary to protect against an imminent threat to life.
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.The UN can meet all they want, but it will not lead to any meaningful change in Israeli policies. In fact, only the USA has any real influence over Israeli politics but the Republicans and Christian right have hijacked our Israeli policies over the last 20 years. Obama worked very hard to rebalance the relationship....and it was working (as proven by Benjamin Netanyahu's behavior). However, Trump has completely ruined the progress and basically given Israel a blank check to do whatever they want and still get our support.
As long as Israel is a nation state based on a religion, there will never be a true democracy in Israel.
RickyBobby
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One can hardly say that Israel is based on religion, when you consider that the inventor of zionism, Herzl, was an atheist, as indeed were the likes of ben Gurion, Golda Meir, Rabin etc.!
@LoneJungle Good point....I think there is a duality in the identity of Israel. There is the focus on jewish ethnicity (zionism) and then the focus on Judaism. Either way, Judaism and its associated religious 'laws' are part of the nation state, and will ensure a racial/religious supremacy.
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