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and try to find out what is legal/illegal On Jan 8, 11:23 am, Morpheal <[email protected]> wrote: > END TO GAZA HOSTILITIES CANNOT BE NEGOTIABLE - THE WAR IS ILLEGAL > > We must wonder first why Barack Obama is showing such extremely > politically damaging weakness, in his solidarity with George Bush. > Bush is clearly wrong, and even as a citizen, and much more so as the > president elect of the United States, Mr. Obama, needs to make his own > personal view on Gaza evident now, for the historical record and for > the sake of his future dealings with the world community. We cannot > see now, how he can evade the situation. The world must know, now, and > forever, whether he approves of the Bush position on Gaza or whether > he disapproves and is in favor of an alternative course of action. The > weight of that opinion in the current crisis, needs to be known now, > not after thousands more have suffered and died. He will then share > personal responsibility with George Bush, and his presidency will > remain tainted by that fact. In a democracy every person has the duty, > not only the right, to express their opinion, whatever the weight of > that opinion, in terms of what is wrong. Mr. Obama cannot continue to > evade that duty of making his own position clear to the world, unless > he truly chooses to back Mr. Bush’s policy as what he considers as > being right. Failure to clarify that issue, if the position is one of > differing, can only prove crippling to world community efforts and to > the United Nations. Dissent with Mr. Bush is anticipated, but > uncertain. At least we can hope that Mr. Obama has a humanity, that > Mr. Bush clearly has proven that he lacks. > > The situation in Gaza has reached a most critical condition, demanding > actions that are not yet evident. Gaza is legally Israel's > responsibility under international convention, and has been allowed to > flaunt and ignore international law, now clearly violating all > relevant standards of international law and human decency as regards > the civilian population. One cannot expect normal and legal responses > from other directions, where anger is beginning to peak and may > unleash an uncontrollable and extremely unpredictable level of > response, unless the world community acts to enforce an immediate and > unconditional end to hostilities. Under international laws pertaining > to the situation in Gaza the world community would have to act to > prosecute both Israel and Hams members for their actions in terms of a > long history of violations of multiple international laws, which have > now led to the extremes of suffering in Gaza, and the deaths and > woundings of increasingly vast numbers of civilians. > > Clearly it is becoming imperative to break the siege of Gaza > decisively to enable adequate levels of medical and humanitarian aid > to the civilian population. The need to evacuate a growing number of > wounded and ill civilians is becoming an almost unimaginably difficult > situation. It is unlikely that adequate facilities can be brought to > Gaza within any comparably reasonable period of time, to remedy the > sufferings of thousands of victims. > > Robert Morpheal --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
