tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4594177931877686122.post2055727914459973200..comments2023-03-25T08:41:12.279-05:00Comments on Khaled Hamid Forum: Israel: a morally bankrupt countryKhaledhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10331670117235466721noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4594177931877686122.post-74799093647169341532010-06-08T18:04:26.240-05:002010-06-08T18:04:26.240-05:00Khaled,
I leave one comment citing one short law....Khaled,<br /><br />I leave one comment citing one short law. You respond by saying I "sound like a lawyer", but then you out do me ten-fold.<br /><br />From reading your comment, I see that you falsely interpret my views. I left a very short comment and you already assume that I'm a Likudnik. I would agree with most of what you said. But I don't see how you justify calling all Michael W.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00510512694213419859noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4594177931877686122.post-82109338266808905062010-06-07T22:17:56.818-05:002010-06-07T22:17:56.818-05:00Part 3
Washington Post
Anthony D'Amato, a pro...Part 3<br />Washington Post <br />Anthony D'Amato, a professor of international law at Northwestern University School of Law is among those who believes the raid was <br /><br />illegal. "That's what freedom of the seas are all about. This is very clear, for a change. I know a lot of prominent Israeli attorneys and I'd be <br /><br />flabbergasted if any of them disagreed with meKhaledhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10331670117235466721noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4594177931877686122.post-48359957488511571982010-06-07T22:17:15.216-05:002010-06-07T22:17:15.216-05:00Part 2
Finally, and not to ignore the legal issues...Part 2<br />Finally, and not to ignore the legal issues you raised, a quick search leads to legally differing opinions from those you 'selected' to present. So I took the liberty of 'selecting' the other half of the arguments that you ignored, or that the sources you chose to research selectively (and conveniently) ignored.<br /><br />It is a long reading, but you started the Khaledhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10331670117235466721noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4594177931877686122.post-59580558223333405382010-06-07T22:07:27.713-05:002010-06-07T22:07:27.713-05:00Part 1
Becky:
I do not think there is much we can ...Part 1<br />Becky:<br />I do not think there is much we can agree about. Before we agree you need to be consistent: Are you for _Legality_ or for _legitimacy_? <br /><br />If you are for legality, then give me a clear opinion of the other legal issues I raised: <br />- occupation<br />- on going theft of resources of occupied land<br />- settling the occupier's so-called civilians in Khaledhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10331670117235466721noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4594177931877686122.post-79704033352471445232010-06-07T16:43:35.293-05:002010-06-07T16:43:35.293-05:00International maritime law has been expounded on i...International maritime law has been expounded on in many places on the web, but this site puts it succinctly: http://www.informationdissemination.net/2010/06/israeli-actions-are-stupid-but-legal.html<br /><br />The US routinely stops and inspects ships in international waters. If a ship does not stop, the US does not bother with boarding first, it simply shoots up the ship. It happened just last Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4594177931877686122.post-3297117223547278502010-06-03T19:18:04.363-05:002010-06-03T19:18:04.363-05:00Michael:
In a previous comment you also mentioned ...Michael:<br />In a previous comment you also mentioned that you were no a lawyer. And I responded at that time that you sound like one, and that was not necessarily a complement considering how many lawyers use their skill to pick and choose from the law. It is a ‘déjà vu allover again’ today. You again sound like a lawyer.<br /><br />But let us be reasonable here. Let us compromise. How Khaledhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10331670117235466721noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4594177931877686122.post-87474036730915704292010-06-03T17:28:42.978-05:002010-06-03T17:28:42.978-05:00"..nothing Israel did was illegal according t..."..nothing Israel did was illegal according to international law and convention." <br /><br />Supporters with this convoluted understanding of law make it difficult for any meaningful change to occur.<br /><br />People were killed. There is not much more to debate.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4594177931877686122.post-51794136532113362162010-06-03T17:10:07.495-05:002010-06-03T17:10:07.495-05:00Arafat said this long time ago (1974): Israel is A...Arafat said this long time ago (1974): Israel is America's cry baby.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4594177931877686122.post-24448556598308307752010-06-03T16:59:09.365-05:002010-06-03T16:59:09.365-05:00Also, and for those who wonder where Palestinian C...Also, and for those who wonder where Palestinian Christians and other Christians of the world stand on this catastrophe, please see a GREAT collection of reactions and replies by christian institutions around the world.<br /><br />The Churches Respond to Gaza Aid Flotilla Assault ( http://www.fosna.org/news )<br /><br />Yet again to prove that the problems in not only an Islamic problem. It is aKhaledhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10331670117235466721noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4594177931877686122.post-40776286338920758892010-06-03T16:53:53.945-05:002010-06-03T16:53:53.945-05:00I am not really sure where you came with all these...I am not really sure where you came with all these facts from Becky.<br />As for "Muslim brothers" jerking Palestinians around and causing their suffering, I would say that your are, to put mildly, disingenuous. The injustices Israelis, with support and funding from their "Jewish brothers" around the world, have been inflicting on Palestinians have been going on for decades, Khaledhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10331670117235466721noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4594177931877686122.post-34322427007522533162010-06-03T16:18:06.749-05:002010-06-03T16:18:06.749-05:00I'm no lawyer, but if you want to know which l...I'm no lawyer, but if you want to know which law beckyzoole is talking about, see the San Remo manual, rule 67(a).<br /><br />But hopefully, this will cost the Israeli Right political clout. Israeli polls show that a vast majority of disapprove of how the interception was handled and is split evenly on the blockade.Michael W.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00510512694213419859noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4594177931877686122.post-17855863833414514082010-06-03T11:04:23.710-05:002010-06-03T11:04:23.710-05:00Part of the reason why the response from so many g...Part of the reason why the response from so many governments has been so blase, is that nothing Israel did was illegal according to international law and convention. If the US, or Algeria, or any other government were to condemn Israel, that government would thereby impair its own ability to enforce maritime blockades, and/or inspect ships at sea.<br /><br />Most people do not realize that all Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4594177931877686122.post-58663553143550736792010-06-03T09:08:17.694-05:002010-06-03T09:08:17.694-05:00I don't know when this global -and American- a...I don't know when this global -and American- apathy towards all the wrongful deed that Israel does. When does this fear of being labelled as ant-semitic, would go away, and people would be objective about the illegality of the lane confiscations, the human rights abuses -by the so called only democracy in the middle East-, the other countries invasion, the mass killing, the mass jailing etc passerbyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00682144262038607945noreply@blogger.com