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Israel and the loss of collective hope, part 2 by Stanley L Cohen

Please TAKE ACTION RIGHT NOW and send your letter to the UN Office of the Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide and the International Criminal Court Prosecutor.

Late in 1982, the UN General Assembly declared the carnage an act of genocide,condemning Israel in the “strongest terms for the large-scale massacre of Palestinian civilians in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps.” However, neither the UN nor any other international body ever took action against Israel or its proxies for the massacre.

Continue reading at https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/israel-loss-collective-hope-part-2-180428204746990.html

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Nominee for ambassador to Israel unfit for role by John R. Barker

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The settlements, combined with an intricate system of 500 checkpoints, ensure the daily vexation and humiliation of Palestinians. Killings of Palestinians at these checkpoints is a regular occurrence. Make no mistake, Israel’s slow strangulation of the Palestinians is ethnic cleansing, pure and simple. In fact, respected lawyer and civil rights activist Stanley L. Cohen, writing for Al Jazeera in a Dec. 26, 2016, opinion piece, characterizes Israel’s policies as “slow-motion genocide.”

Continue reading at http://www.knoxnews.com/story/opinion/columnists/2017/02/25/john-r-barker-nominee-ambassador-israel-unfit-role/98323398/

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Israel’s never-ending crimes: It’s not just settlements by Stanley L Cohen

Please TAKE ACTION RIGHT NOW and send your letter to the UN Office of the Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide and the International Criminal Court Prosecutor.

In the presence of overwhelming evidence of premeditated Israeli genocide, to argue otherwise is to reduce the dark, evil and systematic deeds of Stalin, Kissinger, Pol Pot and the Hutu state to little more than a collection of misunderstood happenstance.

Yes, Mr Prime Minister, you should quit while you are ahead. Today, Israel stands charged with violations of the law of occupation. Tomorrow, it might very well, indeed should, find itself seated in a well-deserved international dock on trial for genocide.

Continue reading at http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2016/12/israel-crimes-settlements-161229075030106.html