*Bolivia to take Israel to The Hague* *Fri, 16 Jan 2009* http://www.presstv.ir:80/detail.aspx?id=82554§ionid=351020202<http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=82554§ionid=351020202>
*Israel ignores international calls to end Gaza invasion.* *Bolivia is seeking to take Tel Aviv to International Criminal Court over the brutal atrocities the Israeli forces have committed in Gaza. * The Andean state says it is intended to make regional allies take a unified stance against "the Israeli political and military leaders responsible for the offensive on the Gaza Strip" and make it to stand trial at the international body in the Hague, said Sacha Llorenti, whose portfolio covers civil society. Moves to begin the legal process will begin "probably next week," Bolivia's deputy justice and human rights minister Wilfredo Chavez told journalists during the visit to Geneva, AFP reported on Friday. Bolivia followed in the steps of its ally Venezuela and severed diplomatic ties with Israel over its massacre of the Gazans and snubbing the international calls for an 'immediate' and 'durable' truce, said the Latin American governments. The Bolivian president Evo Morales told a group of diplomats in the administrative capital of La Paz that he will request the International Criminal Court (ICC) to file genocide charges against Israeli President Shimon Peres and Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. The ICC is competent to adjudicate war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide committed after 2002. Israel and its closest ally, the United States, are not among the 108 signatories of the Rome Statute creating the Hague-based court in 2000 to investigate and prosecute war crimes. After 21 days of non-stop bombardment and aggression, the Israeli invasion of Gaza has left 1,133 Palestinians killed and more than 5,200 wounded. +++++++++++ <http://www.presstv.ir/default.aspx> *Turkey: Israel must be barred from UN* Fri, 16 Jan 2009 17:09:06 GMT http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=82565§ionid=351020202 *Turkish Premier Recep Tayyip Erdogan* *Turkey's Prime Minister has called for Israel to be barred from the UN as long as it ignores international calls to stop war on Gaza. * "How is such a country, which does not implement resolutions of the UN Security Council, allowed to enter through the gates of the UN (headquarters)?" Recep Tayyip Erdogan inquired on Friday. The remarks came before UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon's arrival in Ankara to discuss the conflict and amid growing outrage in Turkey over Israel's attacks on Gaza. Erdogan lashed out at the Israeli army's raids on civilians under the pretext of targeting the Palestinian fighters in the territory. He also accused the Israeli media of falsely suggesting that Hamas uses civilians as human shields in the Gaza Strip. The UN chief, who traveled to the West Bank on Thursday, has urged an end to the 'unbearable' situation in Gaza and called on Israel for a unilateral humanitarian truce. Last Thursday, the UN Security Council approved a resolution which demanded an "immediate" and "durable" ceasefire leading to the "full withdrawal" of Israeli forces from Gaza. It also called for "the unimpeded provision and distribution throughout Gaza of humanitarian assistance, including of food, fuel and medical treatment." Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, however, vowed to resist outside pressure <http://www.presstv.com/Detail.aspx?id=81348§ionid=351020202>and push ahead with the military action against Gaza, while Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni said Israel would act 'only according to its interests'<http://www.presstv.com/detail.aspx?id=81321§ionid=351020202>. Weeks of ceaseless Israeli airstrikes and tank shelling have so far killed more than 1,133 Palestinians across the impoverished coastal sliver, which has been under Israel's crippling blockade since June 2007. On Friday, Turkish President Abdullah Gul renewed calls for an immediate cease-fire and urged US President-elect Barack Obama to focus on a comprehensive, long-lasting and fair solution to the issue once he is in office. +++++++++++++ Qatar, Mauritania suspend ties with Israel Fri, 16 Jan 2009 15:56:00 GMT http://www.presstv.ir/Detail.aspx?id=82560§ionid=351020202 *Qatar and Mauritania have decided to suspend their ties with Israel following a regional summit in Doha to discuss the war on Gaza. * "Mauritania and Qatar have decided during a meeting behind closed doors to suspend their ties with Israel," a Mauritanian diplomat told AFP on condition of anonymity. Qatar has hosted an Israeli trade bureau since 1996, while Mauritania has had diplomatic ties with the Israeli regime since 1999. The Nouakchott government called back its ambassador to Tel Aviv after Israel refused to heed international calls to halt attacks on the Gaza Strip. Tel Aviv launched Operation Cast Lead on December 27 to put an end to rocket attacks against southern Israeli towns. At least 1,133 Palestinians have died during the offensive, while some 5,150 others have been wounded. Hamas, the democratically-elected ruler of the impoverished Gaza Strip, demands a cessation of an 18-month Israeli blockade on the coastal enclave -- home to some 1.5 million Palestinians -- before its fighters suspend retaliatory rocket attacks. The UN Security Council adopted resolution 1860 which calls for an immediate end to the ongoing crisis. Both sides, however, have rejected the resolution. The decision by Mauritania and Qatar to suspend ties with Israel comes after Syrian President Bashar al-Assad called on Arab countries at the Friday meeting to severe all 'direct and indirect ties with Israel' and close their embassies. Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad also called for a boycott on all Israeli goods. +++++++++++ ----- Original Message ----- *From:* raja chemayel <[email protected]> *To:* [email protected] *Sent:* Friday, January 16, 2009 6:36 PM *Subject:* "to recognise Israel" Time chages any borders , but never the Truth. Each and every time any country or organisation or even any party wanting to have recognition and acceptance within, and from *the Western-world,* it is asked* ........." to recognise Israel."* Even Spain and Greece were asked to do it before being allowed entrance to the European Union. All the East-European-countries did it also as a precondition to entering the same EU. Anwar el Saddat did it the hard way King Hussein of Jordan did it also before getting even richer ..... Fine with me , one is also free to recognise the Devil or even AIDS as ,equally, one is free *not* to recognise anything or anyone. But when it comes to recognising the State of Israel , there comes attached to it *"the right to exist"* I for example , fear and recognise AIDS but not it right to exist..... Besides this philosophic argument, there is another practical and fundamental question : Where is Israel ? *where does it start* *and where does it stop ?????* what and where are its borders ?? because there are a multitude of border-lines 1947 -1948- 1956- 1967- 1973- 1978 1982 -2002.....plus the ever growing size of those illegal settlements. If you rewind history , you will soon find out that *there never was a State * *nor a Kingdom called Israel.* ** There were indeed some Jewish-Kings ruling the Land of Canaan temporarily and with intervals. While the land was never exclusively inhabited by Jews. A cumulative addition of *the periods with a Jewish-King* come to a total of 170 years only while the Greeks and the Roman-Byzantines ruled it longer than that........each seperatly and the Ottomans even longer and the European-Crusaders stayed 93 years in Jerusalem and 200 outside Jerusalem . So if you want to consider a piece of land with a Jewish King as being a Jewish-land then even then the Jews were minoritarian in the chronology of History. If you want to count history by the presence or the abscence of any Religion *then Judaism was the shortest-period of all.* Back to any Jewish-state ,to be known as "Israel" I would place it in Khazaria, which was *Jewish populated with a Jewish ruler* for a period of 400 years and non-stop too. Also Yemen has had a Jewish King (or kings) Even Damascus has had once a Jewish ruler.. So next time the White-House or European-Union or the Devil,himself, asks you to recognise "Israel" *aske them to draw you the Map-of-Israel* *and keep a copy for the later refences.....* Raja Chemayel 16.Jan.2009 *PS:* Incidentaly, until 2004 Gazza was part of this State in 2005 it stopped and in 2009 obviously it is , again. South Lebanon from 1978 up to 2000 was ruled by Jews...... --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Nor can Goodness and Evil be equal. Repel (evil) with what is better; then the enmity between him and you will become as if it were your friend and intimate! Visit: sultan.org Subscribe: [email protected] Post to group: [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
