You care about laws...
LMAO!
<b>UNITED NATIONS, Jul 17 (IPS) - Israel is in violation of U.S. arms control laws for deploying U.S.-made fighter planes, combat helicopters and missiles to kill civilians and destroy Lebanon's infrastructure in the ongoing six-day devastation of that militarily-weak country.
The death toll, according to published reports, is over 200 people -- mostly civilians -- while the economic losses have been estimated at about 100 million dollars per day.
"Section 4 of the (U.S.) Arms Export Control Act requires that military items transferred to foreign governments by the United States be used solely for internal security and legitimate self-defence," says Stephen Zunes, professor of politics at the University of San Francisco.
"Since Israeli attacks against Lebanon's civilian infrastructure and population centres clearly go beyond legitimate self-defence, the United States is legally obliged to suspend arms transfers to Israel," Zunes told IPS.
Frida Berrigan, a senior research associate with the Arms Trade Resource Centre at the World Policy Institute in New York, is equally outraged at the misuse by Israel of U.S.-supplied weapons.
"As Israel jets bombard locations in Gaza, Haifa and Beirut, killing civilians (including as many as seven Canadians vacationing in Aitaroun), it is worth remembering that U.S. law is clear about how U.S.-origin weapons and military systems ought to be used," Berrigan told IPS.
She pointed out that the U.S. Arms Export Control Act clear states that U.S. origin weapons should not be used for "non-defensive purposes."
"In light of this clear statement, the United States has an opportunity to stave off further bloodshed and suffering by demanding that its weaponry and military aid not be used in attacks against Lebanon and elsewhere, and challenging Israeli assertions that it is using military force defensively," she added. </b>
Of course we wouldn't hold Israel to be accountable for these laws, we are too busy killing innocent civilians in a non defensive manner in Iraq to worry about Israel's violations...
What a crackup, dopdeedumbdo says that he supports unbiased jurors.
Where are those going to come from in the state of Israel when it comes to a Palestinian accused of a crime?
Wooohooohooo!
What a riot.
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Me too, I also care about laws, real laws with professional judges and unbiased jurors, with prosecutors and defense, with court hearings,appeal procedures and sentencing, with the history of court cases and legal precedents, with mechanisms to review these laws and amend them when they become outdated and/or out of sync with real life.
I frankly don't care about a piece of paper written by a UN or Brussels bureaucrat 50 years ago which has nothing whatsoever to do with the real world, real situations and real laws, I don't care about the system which allows 100 muslim members of the UN to create one law for Israel and another law for Palestine, Saudi Arabia or Sudan, I don't care about the opinion of the UN Human rights committee half of which members are totalitarian dictatorships with long lists of human rights violations, I don't care about the opinion of France or China or Russia and other members of the UNSC cause their opinions are not based on some kind of universal conscience and their desire "to deliver justice" but are instead motivated by their political preferences, political expediency, political/financial interests and behind-the-scenes shenanigans. I could not care less about a legal system in which cases are not reviewed by lawyers, judges or jurors but are instead argued by biased to the core, incompetent and corrupt career politicians?
I do care about laws, real laws.
