i’ll gladly agree that all those who have commited crimes must stand trial.
and, folks, believe me, all criminals dead or alive will be prosecuted! tnx

i presume you agree with this, mr halpin as you put it on your website.

your hypocrisy is stunning.

you will quite happily support hamas,the “government” of gaza blowing up jewish israeli children on buses in jerusalem,blowing up people jew and arab in cafes in haifa,blowing up 28 people sitting in a hotel in netanya.
blowing up jews is o.k for you seemingly. and you put yourself forward as being a member of a caring profession

Gaza is a concentration camp with 1.5 million people within. Two-thirds derive from Palestine. They were driven out by force of arms and by terror from their homes, their lands and their living. They are now as lepers, shunned by the Zionist entity and by the forty plus western nations which collaborate it with it.

Go back 67 years Mr Ritchie. If doctors from other nations were camped outside Sachsenhausen and under the sign “Arbeit Macht Frei” on hunger strike, would ‘indifference’ be your response. Shame on your inhumanity.

mary,this story is getting so exciting i am having difficulty controlling my indifference
hold me back

Ref the tunnels. Stephen Lendman’s site Global Research report that Sara Flounders is one of three of their writers who have been nominated for an journalism award.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=13666

SARA FLOUNDERS
The Tunnels of Gaza
An underground economy and resistance symbol
- by Sara Flounders – 2009-02-11
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=12255

http://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2009/05/british_doctors.html#comments

http://www.uruknet.info?p=54392

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/may/19/british-medics-refused-gaza-access

thanks for bringing this up. I had not heard anything in the Canadian media (surprise!)

All three of Canada’s major parties “support” the two-state solution. The situation is as bad here as it is south of the border (see George Galloway for example).

The “socialist” party suggested sending peacekeepers to “prevent the smuggling of weapons into Gaza”… as opposed to say monitoring the destruction of the partition wall and the illegal settlements.

As Netanyahu and Obama talk about “stopping settlements”:

http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/middleeast/news/article_1477931.php/Israel_to_build_first_new_settlement_in_West_Bank_in_26_years_

Manitoba/Israel Sharing Information And Expertise
CJOB News Team reporting
5/14/2009

Manitoba’s Agriculture Minister has presented the Jewish National Fund with a cheque for 334-thousand dollars. Rosann Wowchuk says it’s the final instalment of a 1-million dollar commitment to promote the exchange of information and technology between Manitoba and Israel. Wowchuk says the two regions share many of the same challenges with food production and extreme conditions. Last year, 24 water experts from Israel and Manitoba got together at a symposium to share research and information on water quality and conservation.

I wouldn’t be so cynical about International law; though I agree with you on two important points: 1) imperialist nation-states don’t play by the rules they’ve signed onto – e.g., International Law and 2) a two-state solution is not the solution for I/P.

A one state solution whereby, to use the phrase of the “wipe” the Zionist regime off the map (note this is closer to what was said by the Iranian president). One cannot imagine peace with a deadly parasite such as the Zionist regime that rules Israel. Two state is not the answer. A non-secular open society home to Arab and non-Arab alike seems the only way to a lasting humane peace.

i think that lebanon, syria, and jordan expect just such a scenario. However, the three countries cld be drawn into a war with US/Israel, regardless what they do or don’t do.

folks, there is a reason why there is no peace in expalstine, exiraq, exafgh’n, and ex-pak’n; the reason[s] given are not it! tnx

pals are on the wrong int’l street; int’l streets are controled by gangs without pangs.
this means, that a gang like the amer one wld stop at nothing to obtain the planet.
it wld depend on other strong gangs how much US gets. And even the entire planet, which is getting poorer by day, may not be enough.
but still, that’s all there is.

we can be certain that US will use small n-bombs in order to cow russia and china; the only two empires that might be able to stop amers. tnx

International law (like its close cousin human rights law) is by and large a creation of imperialist superpowers who seek to apply it to their enemies and seek exemption from it for themselves and their proxies. There is considerable reason to doubt whether international law even still exists, as a set of settled principles applicable to all nations. Double, triple, and multiple standards abound, with nations free to opt out of compliance or to defy the “law” with impunity.

Properly applied, international law would declare the original formation of the state of Israel on Palestinian land to have been illegal. But this does not appear to be on the Tribunal’s radar. After all, “international law” nowadays means whatever the United Nations Security Council wants it to mean, and the Security Council above all wants the preservation of the state of Israel to be recognized as sacrosanct. As it is, the application of international law to Palestine points towards recognition of Israel’s pre-1967 “borders”. This is de facto recognition of its “right” to displace the Palestinians pursuant to the General Assembly’s partition plan of 1948.

The “prospect of a viable Palestinian state” referred to in the Tribunal’s declaration is a clear signal that the Tribunal is moving in the direction of a so-called “two-state” solution, which is no solution at all. Moreover, international law does not, and cannot, address the very crucial political question of what kind of separate state would actually be “viable” for the Palestinians.