Israel Is The Only Violator Of Health Rights

The UK, France, Germany and other EU states voted today for a UN resolution, co-sponsored by the Arab group of states and the Palestinian delegation, that singled out Israel at the annual assembly of the World Health Organization (WHO) as the only violator of “mental, physical and environmental health,” and commissioned a WHO delegation to investigate and report on “the health conditions in the occupied Palestinian territory” and in “the occupied Syrian Golan,” and to place it on the agenda again at next year’s meeting.

By contrast, the UN assembly did not address Syrian hospitals being bombed by Syrian and Russian warplanes, or millions of Yemenis denied access to food and water by the Saudi-led bombings and blockade, nor did it pass a resolution on any other country in the world. Out of 24 items on the meeting’s agenda, only one, Item No. 19 against Israel, focused on a specific country.

 

UK, France, Germany join UN to single out Israel as world’s only violator of health rights

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Get Israel Out of Palestine

End Israel’s occupation of Palestine, Qatar tells forum

 

The 16th Doha Forum has wrapped up with speakers from around the world touching on issues ranging from global and regional security to conflict resolution and climate change.

The conference, organised by Qatar’s foreign ministry, was attended by heads of state from South Africa, Afghanistan, Yemen, Mauritius, and Niger, along with Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary-general.

Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, Qatar’s foreign minister, delivered the country’s statement as Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, Emir of Qatar, sat in attendance.

He stressed the need to support human rights and bolster security for the people of the Middle East region – and around the world.

“Repression, tyranny, double standards and violating human rights and basic freedoms constitute the underlying threats to elements of human security,” he said.

According to Sheikh Mohammed, achieving peace in the volatile Middle East is directly linked to ending the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories, including Jerusalem

 

http://www.aljazeera.com/blogs/middleeast/2016/05/israel-occupation-palestine-qatar-tells-forum-160523084628475.html

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Israel Uses Torture

The UN committee against torture in Geneva is set to grill Israel on Tuesday and Wednesday on its policies with regard to torture on both sides of the Green Line.

Among the issues the 10-member committee of experts intends to raise are those relating to Palestinian detainees, including minors, the demolition of Palestinian homes, settler violence against Palestinians, Israeli investigation of torture complaints, the possible continued existence of a secret prison known as detention facility 1391, human trafficking and the treatment of asylum seekers.

The two days of hearings is standard practice for all 159 states that have signed the UN Convention against Torture, which has been in existence since 1987. Israel signed the treaty in 1991 and the Palestinian Authority became a signatory in 2014.

 

http://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/UN-to-quiz-Israel-on-torture-complaints-452923

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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More and More Jewish Terrorists

Israel Says It Has Uncovered Jewish Extremist Cell in West Bank

 

JERUSALEM — Israel said Wednesday that it had uncovered a new network of Jewish extremists in the West Bank that was responsible for several recent attacks against Palestinians, including the attempted arson of at least one home as people slept inside.

The announcement, by the police and Shin Bet, the country’s domestic security agency, came amid heightened tensions after a July arson attack in the West Bank village of Duma that killed a Palestinian boy and his parents. That attack enraged Palestinians and alarmed Israel’s security services, which have been trying to maintain stability in the West Bank. Two young Israeli Jews were charged in January in connection with the attack.

Describing the newly identified group as a “Jewish terrorist network,” the authorities said in a statement that six members had been arrested in recent weeks, five of them residents of Nahliel, an established settlement northwest of Ramallah in the West Bank.

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Israel The Terrorist State

Israel arrests six members of ‘Jewish terror cell’

 

Israel’s security agency says it has arrested six West Bank settlers who were members of a “Jewish terror cell”.

The settlers carried out violence against Palestinians last year including an assault and an attempt to set fire to a home, Shin Bet said.

They are due to be charged in the coming days.

The group, which included a soldier and two minors, allegedly tried to copy an arson attack that killed three members of a Palestinian family.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-36091872

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Israel will never return the Golan Heights to Syria, says Benjamin Netanyahu

 

Israel’s Prime Minister has declared that the Golan Heights will remain permanently under the country’s control, during Israel’s first Cabinet meeting held in the territory.

“The time has come for the international community to recognize reality, especially two basic facts,” said Benjamin Netanyahu during a Cabinet meeting Sunday.
“One, whatever is beyond the border, the boundary itself will not change. Two, after 50 years, the time has come for the international community to finally recognize that the Golan Heights will remain under Israel’s sovereignty permanently.”
http://edition.cnn.com/2016/04/18/middleeast/israel-syria-golan-heights/
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Israel A Nation of Terrorists

THE footage left little room for doubt. A video filmed on March 24th by an Israeli human-rights organisation showed a Palestinian man lying on the ground, apparently wounded after trying to stab Israeli soldiers in a Jewish settlers’ enclave in Hebron, a city in the West Bank. Then a soldier stands over him and shoots him in the head.

The soldier, a 19 year-old sergeant, was arrested by the military police. The legal branch of the Israel Defence Force (IDF) went to work building a case against him for manslaughter. The IDF announced that the soldier had acted against orders and would face the music. But meanwhile, the political world erupted.

Despite the army’s evidence that the wounded assailant posed no immediate threat to the soldiers or to civilians, as the shooter claims, public opinion has been highly sympathetic towards “the boy”. A survey by the Midgam polling company found that 42% of Israelis believed the shooter had acted “responsibly” while 24% thought that it was “a natural response to a stressful situation”. Only 19% believed he had been “disobeying orders” and 5% regarded the shooting as “murder”. A hefty 57% thought the soldier should never have been arrested, and only 32% said the army had acted correctly in charging him.

 

http://www.economist.com/news/middle-east-and-africa/21696248-political-storm-around-soldiers-trial-involves-even-israels-prime

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People live in poverty in N.J.

Nearly one million people live in poverty in New Jersey, an increase of just short of 250,000 people in the past 10 years, according to 2014 Census data released today.

The rate of state residents living in poverty dropped slightly between 2013 and 2014, from 11.4 percent to 11.1 percent, though an estimated 973,000 people live below the federal poverty line.

In the past decade, the poverty rate in New Jersey has jumped from 8.7 percent to 11.1 percent, according to the Census data. There were about 739,000 New Jersey residents living in poverty in 2005.

 

http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2015/09/nearly_1m_people_live_below_the_poverty_line_in_nj_new_census_data_shows.html

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How to Succeed at Failure

He asked me what I’ve failed at so far in life.

“What have I failed at?” I said, repeating the question to buy some more time. So that I could remember why I was there and who I was with and, I guess, most importantly how the heck to answer a question like that.

I’ve failed. I’ve failed a lot. But I like to take my failures and crumple them up in a ball and shove them in the back of my mind like unwashed, un-dry cleaned, clothes that I plan to never wear again but keep alive in my closet just in case I want to pull them out and give them a whirl around the living room.

“Most recently,” I began, “I failed at selling a book proposal for something I wanted to write really, really badly.”

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jen-glantz/how-to-succeed-at-failure_b_6854536.html

 

 

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