Israeli War Crime Tribunal Calls Multiply

by con10t | January 22, 2009 at 06:12 am
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There are a gowing number of citizen-run and human rights websites that provide templates for letters and emails that encourage those who oppose war crime to plead with the United Nations to pursue its investigation in the child murder, maiming as well as civilian killing and casualties, the detruction of aid agencies for food and medicine and education by the state of Israel in its self-proclaimed swift and brutal military action agains Palestinians in Gaza.

A template is given by the canadiansforpalestine.org:

Sample email...
To Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon and General Assembly President Father Miguel D'Escoto

I call upon you to seriously consider trying Israel for war crimes.
That you establish an International Criminal Tribunal for Israel (ICTI),
As suggested by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Mairead Maguire please add your voices to the many calls from international jurists, human rights organizations and individuals to bring Israel to justice for its war crimes.
You can do this as under international law, an ICTI can be established by the UN General Assembly as a "subsidiary organ" under Article 22 of the UN Charter. The charter states that the UN General Assembly may establish such subsidiary organs "as it deems necessary for the performance of its functions."

The purpose of the ICTI would be to investigate and prosecute suspected Israeli war criminals for offences against the Palestinian people.

Sign the email and send it off to these adresses
UNITED NATIONS IN NEW YORK (UNHQ)
Caroline Petit, petitc@un.org
UNITED NATIONS IN GENEVA (UNOG)
Yvette Morris, ymorris@unog.ch

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Sputnic

Good idea, break international law - get punished by the international community. Sounds simple enough to me

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mariam ryan

the crime against Palestinians is a crime against humanity and it is the responsibility of all of us to see to it that it does not pass unpunished

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Wogolin

It was disgusting what happened to the Jews during World War II, and for the record I am not antisemitic, but worst thing that ever happened since then was for the UN to create a Jewish nation. My Protestant Hugonot ancestors were persecuted by the French Catholics in the 16th century and fled to Holland. I now live in Australia. Do I or other Huguenot descendants think it is our god given right to move back into France? I don't think so. For the Israeli nation to carry on as it does to simply save face in light of persecution that happened over 2000 years ago in the same area is rediculous. I say get over it and move on peacefully and stop murdering your neighbours in your paranioa.

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Wogolin

Woops, wrong soapbox, related topic but not relevant. Yes I say try them for war crimes!

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Wogolin

Woops, I got the wrong soapbox. Related but not relevant. I say try them for war crimes!

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