US Bill Seeks to Exonerate Israel of War Crimes

Submitted by Peter Garcia-Webb 

The US House of Representatives has passed a resolution that will now go to the Senate. It calls on the international community to recognize and condemn Hamas’ breaches of international law through the use of human shields and condemns the United Nations Human Rights Council’s biased commission of inquiry into Israel’s Gaza operations. There is no evidence that Hamas has used human shields, nor that UNHRC is biased.

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The bill has many steps to pass before it becomes Law. But it is important. The House has given Israel the all clear as far as war crimes are concerned. The House has accepted that Israel has gone to extraordinary lengths to target only Hamas actors.

But the current data show that 1,437 Palestinians have been killed, 23% of those were children. And 8,265 Palestinians have been wounded, 30% of those were children. Israel has bombed or shelled hospitals, ambulances, schools, UN facilities, the emergency phone call system, sewerage facilities, water facilities, Gaza's only electricity generating plant, fishing boats and fishing nets, houses, homes, mosques, etc.

Israel has used banned weapons including DIME bombs, tank flechette shells and gas.

In one Bill, the House is attempting to sweep all that aside, and blame the whole thing on Hamas. There is no truth in war.

Such is the strength of the right wing Zionist lobby in the US.

Such are the depths to which democracy in the US has sunk.

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