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Israeli soldiers filmed using Palestinians as human shields
Calcutta News.Net Friday 13th April, 2007 (Ynet News)
Despite repeated promises by the Israel Defense Forces not to make use of Palestinian civilians as ‘human shields’ during its activity in the Palestinian territories, troops operating in Nablus were filmed ordering two Palestinian youths to stand in front of their vehicle to protect it from stones thrown by locals.
The act, which was also in violation of a Supreme Court decision from 2005, was filmed by a foreign activist on Wednesday in Nablus’ Sheikh Munis neighborhood, where the soldiers encircled the home of al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades member Abed el-Qadr.
During the operation the Israeli forces demolished the house, but it later turned out that el-Qadr was not on the premises.
Meanwhile, a number of Palestinian youths threw stones at an Israeli army Hummer that was securing the soldiers encircling the house. According to foreign peace activists at the scene, the soldiers then ordered two youths, who happened to pass by, to stand in front of the vehicle in order to stop the stone-throwing.
The peace activist who filmed the act told Ynet news, “The soldier closest to me said they were only asking the youths to tell their friends to stop throwing stones.”
He said he eventually stopped filming so as not to upset the soldiers, but added that the incident continued for “several more minutes.”
The activist said this is the first time he had seen soldiers ordering Palestinians to serve as human shields for army vehicles, but added that in the past few months he had witnessed a number of incidents in which soldiers used Palestinian civilians during their activity.
Following the video’s publication on Ynet, Military Advocate General Avihai Mandelblit ordered an investigation into the incident, and Central Command chief Yair Naveh ordered the suspension of the commanding officer.
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Sammy 04-13-07, 08:19 AM |
Israeli soldiers filmed using Palestinians as human shields
People without human dignity.
Sammy
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Anonymous 04-13-07, 08:38 AM |
The 'Accusers' are like ...
The Srategy! used by pUNDITS was developed by pyschologists hired by the Republican Party namely the group supporting the nomination of Reagan, in the late 1970’s.
The concept was to make the opposition look BAD, so that Reagan would benefit by not looking as bad.
This was agumented by the use of 'accusation', i.e., taking the Reagan shortcomings and accusing the opposition of those Faults.
We can see in the Accusations of the pUNDITS Today the same strategy! Accuse 'OTHERS' of being Abusers, while in fact Abusing! Every Accusation made by the current Administration of pUNDITS IS TURNING OUT TO BE pUNDIT pOLICY!
Like Killing supports Democracy!
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galljdaj 04-13-07, 09:10 AM |
Yes palistinians seem to have none
Sammy;23211: People without human dignity.
Sammy
Sad people lower themselves to the state of Animals.
Also sad just how lied to everyone has been over the real truth behind Israeli vs Palistinian conflict.
http://palestinefacts.org
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Anonymous 04-13-07, 08:48 AM |
Killing does support Democracy
Unregistered;23215: The Srategy! used by pUNDITS was developed by pyschologists hired by the Republican Party namely the group supporting the nomination of Reagan, in the late 1970’s.
The concept was to make the opposition look BAD, so that Reagan would benefit by not looking as bad.
This was agumented by the use of 'accusation', i.e., taking the Reagan shortcomings and accusing the opposition of those Faults.
We can see in the Accusations of the pUNDITS Today the same strategy! Accuse 'OTHERS' of being Abusers, while in fact Abusing! Every Accusation made by the current Administration of pUNDITS IS TURNING OUT TO BE pUNDIT pOLICY!
Like Killing supports Democracy!
As long as those you kill are working to destroy Democracy.
I would like to see in writing from a reputable site something that supports your allegations.
As usual are we fellow posters just to take your word for the truth of your words?
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galljdaj 04-13-07, 09:04 AM |
All the proof you will ever need to prove anonymouse wrong
Unregistered;23216: As long as those you kill are working to destroy Democracy.
I would like to see in writing from a reputable site something that supports your allegations.
As usual are we fellow posters just to take your word for the truth of your words?
Twisted and warped.
http://www.reaganfoundation.org/
Compared to most President this guy was a powerhouse!:eek:
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Anonymous 04-13-07, 09:31 AM |
When your own name...
is worthless, steal one of Value!
I was asked why I post the disclaim regarding the uncle toms stealing my name(galljdaj). Well the posts using my name ought to be understood that the poster that is impersonating me, realises the worthlessness of their own posts!
These theives cowards liars! misrepresenters, plagiarists are refered to as uncle toms for good reason, they support the same actions of the pUNDITS in control of the US Government.
The following except from Robert Dallek’s writings offers insight into the so called “powerhouse”, as seen by reality, i.e., the Great power record is being kept a secret!
All the Presidents' Words Hushed
“Congress should reverse Bush’s order as a destructive act that returns us to an imperial presidency and robs us of our history."
By ROBERT DALLEK, LAT, 11.25.01. Robert Dallek is the author of a two-volume life of Lyndon B. Johnson. He is completing a biography of John F. Kennedy
Ever since the presidency became the focus of U.S. political life during Theodore Roosevelt’s years in the White House, journalists and historians have discussed the importance of presidential decision-making. Why do presidents give priority to one domestic issue over another? Why and how do they decide between war and peace?
Journalists initially answer these questions with the limited knowledge available to them, always mindful that “White House sources” provide them with the information that will advance a president’s agenda and serve his political standing. Historians with the luxury of hindsight and, more important, access to a much fuller record usually give us a better understanding of presidential reasoning. Their studies are not simply exercises in academic analysis. They often educate presidents, who are always eager to learn what accounts for past White House successes and failures.
President Bush, however, has severely crippled our ability to study the inner workings of a presidency. On Nov. 1, he issued an executive order that all but blocks access to the Reagan White House and potentially that of all other recent presidents. Practically speaking, Bush’s order hinders the opening of 68,000 pages of confidential Reagan communications with his advisors. Under the 1978 Presidential Records Act, a systematic release of presidential papers in response to Freedom of Information requests can only occur 12 years after a president leaves office. The law’s intent was to assure the timely release of presidential materials that would serve the government’s and the public’s understanding of the country’s history, especially decision-making in the White House. The Bush administration, including a statement by the president himself, contends that the executive order is needed to guard against revelations destructive to national security. But this assertion will persuade no one who has even the slightest knowledge of presidential papers. Just a few days in the Kennedy or Johnson libraries would be enough to convince anyone that ample safeguards against breeches of national security and violations of personal privacy already exist, and these are for papers dating from the 1960s, not the 1980s. Moreover, access to previously closed documents make clear that presidents and government agencies always err on the side of excessive caution.
If national security is not the motivating force behind Bush’s executive order, what is? We can only speculate that he is trying to protect members of his administration, who also served under Ronald Reagan, from embarrassing revelations. It is also possible that he is endeavoring to hide his father’s role in the Iran-Contra scandal. And it is imaginable that he is already thinking about shielding the inner workings of his own administration, or his excessive dependence on senior advisors in deciding both domestic and national-security issues about which many outsiders believe he has been poorly informed.
Researchers trying to reconstruct the country’s past are not the only losers when access to historical records is reduced. Current policymakers dependent on useful analogies in deciding what best serves the national interest are also harmed. The more presidents have known about past White House performance, the better they have been at making wise policy judgments. President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s intimate knowledge of President Woodrow Wilson’s missteps at the end of World War I were of considerable help to him in leading the country into and through World War II. Lyndon B. Johnson’s effectiveness in passing so much Great Society legislation in 1965 and 1966 partly rested on direct observation of how Roosevelt had managed relations with the Congress. President Harry S. Truman’s error in crossing into North Korea was one element in persuading George Bush not to invade Iraq.
The recent release of additional Johnson tapes underscores how much historical understanding can influence presidential decision-making. Tapes of LBJ talking about Operation Rolling Thunder, the systematic bombing of North Vietnam begun in February 1965, reveal a president with substantial doubts about the wisdom of the air campaign. “Now we’re off to bombing these people," Johnson said to Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara. “We’re over that hurdle. I don’t think anything is going to be as bad as losing, and I don’t see any way of winning."
“Bomb, bomb, bomb. That’s all you know," Johnson said to Army Chief of Staff Harold K. Johnson. " ... I don’t need 10 generals to come in here 10 times and tell me to bomb. I want some solutions. I want some answers," the president declared. “Airplanes ain’t worth a damn, Dick ... " he complained to Senate Armed Services Chairman Richard Russell. “I guess they can do it in an industrial city. I guess they can do it in New York. ... But that’s the damnedest thing I ever saw. The biggest fraud. Don’t you get your hopes up that the Air Force is going to” win this war. “Light at the end of the tunnel," LBJ told Bill Moyers about the bombing. “Hell, we don’t even have a tunnel; we don’t even know where the tunnel is."
Johnson knew about post-World War II surveys of wartime bombing effectiveness. They demonstrated that the aerial campaigns against Britain and Germany not only didn’t defeat them, they, in fact, stiffened resistance and encouraged greater civilian war efforts. Johnson’s well-justified doubts about bombing made him all the more receptive to sending in ground forces.
It’s too bad that he didn’t have access to a memo President John F. Kennedy had sent to McNamara in November 1962, a week after the Cuban Missile crisis ended. An invasion plan for Cuba, which might still be needed if the Soviets did not follow through on a promise to withdraw “offensive” weapons from the island, impressed Kennedy as “thin." He worried that “we could end up bogged down. I think we should keep constantly in mind the British in the Boer War, the Russians in the last war with the Finnish, and our own experience with the North Koreans." If historical experience dictated against an invasion of Cuba, how would he have felt about sending hundreds of thousands of troops into the jungles of Vietnam?
Every president uses history in deciding current actions. President Bush is no different. Memories of his father’s defeat over a failure to keep his promise about no new taxes and a seeming indifference to the plight of the unemployed have partly shaped his behavior as president. Bush might profit from a history of Reagan’s dealings with former Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev by an independent scholar, which his Nov. 1 executive order forecloses for the time being.
Indeed, the principal victim of Bush’s directive will be himself and the country. The order will inhibit independent study of the Reagan and first Bush presidencies and will impoverish the White House’s ability to make difficult decisions in both domestic and foreign affairs during the next three years. The more the country knows about presidential decision-making, the better it can decide who to send to the White House. The study and publication of our presidential history is no luxury or form of public entertainment. It is a vital element in assuring the best governance of our democracy. Congress should reverse Bush’s order as a destructive act that returns us to an imperial presidency and robs us of our history.
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Anonymous 04-13-07, 10:17 AM |
How can anyone steal something you deemed not worth registering?
Unregistered;23223: is worthless, steal one of Value!
I was asked why I post the disclaim regarding the uncle toms stealing my name(galljdaj). Well the posts using my name ought to be understood that the poster that is impersonating me, realises the worthlessness of their own posts!
These theives cowards liars! misrepresenters, plagiarists are refered to as uncle toms for good reason, they support the same actions of the pUNDITS in control of the US Government.
The following except from Robert Dallek’s writings offers insight into the so called “powerhouse”, as seen by reality, i.e., the Great power record is being kept a secret!
All the Presidents' Words Hushed
“Congress should reverse Bush’s order as a destructive act that returns us to an imperial presidency and robs us of our history."
By ROBERT DALLEK, LAT, 11.25.01. Robert Dallek is the author of a two-volume life of Lyndon B. Johnson. He is completing a biography of John F. Kennedy
Ever since the presidency became the focus of U.S. political life during Theodore Roosevelt’s years in the White House, journalists and historians have discussed the importance of presidential decision-making. Why do presidents give priority to one domestic issue over another? Why and how do they decide between war and peace?
Journalists initially answer these questions with the limited knowledge available to them, always mindful that “White House sources” provide them with the information that will advance a president’s agenda and serve his political standing. Historians with the luxury of hindsight and, more important, access to a much fuller record usually give us a better understanding of presidential reasoning. Their studies are not simply exercises in academic analysis. They often educate presidents, who are always eager to learn what accounts for past White House successes and failures.
President Bush, however, has severely crippled our ability to study the inner workings of a presidency. On Nov. 1, he issued an executive order that all but blocks access to the Reagan White House and potentially that of all other recent presidents. Practically speaking, Bush’s order hinders the opening of 68,000 pages of confidential Reagan communications with his advisors. Under the 1978 Presidential Records Act, a systematic release of presidential papers in response to Freedom of Information requests can only occur 12 years after a president leaves office. The law’s intent was to assure the timely release of presidential materials that would serve the government’s and the public’s understanding of the country’s history, especially decision-making in the White House. The Bush administration, including a statement by the president himself, contends that the executive order is needed to guard against revelations destructive to national security. But this assertion will persuade no one who has even the slightest knowledge of presidential papers. Just a few days in the Kennedy or Johnson libraries would be enough to convince anyone that ample safeguards against breeches of national security and violations of personal privacy already exist, and these are for papers dating from the 1960s, not the 1980s. Moreover, access to previously closed documents make clear that presidents and government agencies always err on the side of excessive caution.
If national security is not the motivating force behind Bush’s executive order, what is? We can only speculate that he is trying to protect members of his administration, who also served under Ronald Reagan, from embarrassing revelations. It is also possible that he is endeavoring to hide his father’s role in the Iran-Contra scandal. And it is imaginable that he is already thinking about shielding the inner workings of his own administration, or his excessive dependence on senior advisors in deciding both domestic and national-security issues about which many outsiders believe he has been poorly informed.
Researchers trying to reconstruct the country’s past are not the only losers when access to historical records is reduced. Current policymakers dependent on useful analogies in deciding what best serves the national interest are also harmed. The more presidents have known about past White House performance, the better they have been at making wise policy judgments. President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s intimate knowledge of President Woodrow Wilson’s missteps at the end of World War I were of considerable help to him in leading the country into and through World War II. Lyndon B. Johnson’s effectiveness in passing so much Great Society legislation in 1965 and 1966 partly rested on direct observation of how Roosevelt had managed relations with the Congress. President Harry S. Truman’s error in crossing into North Korea was one element in persuading George Bush not to invade Iraq.
The recent release of additional Johnson tapes underscores how much historical understanding can influence presidential decision-making. Tapes of LBJ talking about Operation Rolling Thunder, the systematic bombing of North Vietnam begun in February 1965, reveal a president with substantial doubts about the wisdom of the air campaign. “Now we’re off to bombing these people," Johnson said to Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara. “We’re over that hurdle. I don’t think anything is going to be as bad as losing, and I don’t see any way of winning."
“Bomb, bomb, bomb. That’s all you know," Johnson said to Army Chief of Staff Harold K. Johnson. " ... I don’t need 10 generals to come in here 10 times and tell me to bomb. I want some solutions. I want some answers," the president declared. “Airplanes ain’t worth a damn, Dick ... " he complained to Senate Armed Services Chairman Richard Russell. “I guess they can do it in an industrial city. I guess they can do it in New York. ... But that’s the damnedest thing I ever saw. The biggest fraud. Don’t you get your hopes up that the Air Force is going to” win this war. “Light at the end of the tunnel," LBJ told Bill Moyers about the bombing. “Hell, we don’t even have a tunnel; we don’t even know where the tunnel is."
Johnson knew about post-World War II surveys of wartime bombing effectiveness. They demonstrated that the aerial campaigns against Britain and Germany not only didn’t defeat them, they, in fact, stiffened resistance and encouraged greater civilian war efforts. Johnson’s well-justified doubts about bombing made him all the more receptive to sending in ground forces.
It’s too bad that he didn’t have access to a memo President John F. Kennedy had sent to McNamara in November 1962, a week after the Cuban Missile crisis ended. An invasion plan for Cuba, which might still be needed if the Soviets did not follow through on a promise to withdraw “offensive” weapons from the island, impressed Kennedy as “thin." He worried that “we could end up bogged down. I think we should keep constantly in mind the British in the Boer War, the Russians in the last war with the Finnish, and our own experience with the North Koreans." If historical experience dictated against an invasion of Cuba, how would he have felt about sending hundreds of thousands of troops into the jungles of Vietnam?
Every president uses history in deciding current actions. President Bush is no different. Memories of his father’s defeat over a failure to keep his promise about no new taxes and a seeming indifference to the plight of the unemployed have partly shaped his behavior as president. Bush might profit from a history of Reagan’s dealings with former Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev by an independent scholar, which his Nov. 1 executive order forecloses for the time being.
Indeed, the principal victim of Bush’s directive will be himself and the country. The order will inhibit independent study of the Reagan and first Bush presidencies and will impoverish the White House’s ability to make difficult decisions in both domestic and foreign affairs during the next three years. The more the country knows about presidential decision-making, the better it can decide who to send to the White House. The study and publication of our presidential history is no luxury or form of public entertainment. It is a vital element in assuring the best governance of our democracy. Congress should reverse Bush’s order as a destructive act that returns us to an imperial presidency and robs us of our history.
— — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — —
— — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — —
for the industrial strength version...
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Editorial Policy: All entries are dated and documented as needed.
Text (c) Politex. Permission of author required for reprinting.
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It’s not that your name was worth registering for any reason other then amusement of what an idiot and a fool you are and how you would cry bitterly about it.
Constant source of fun.
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Anonymous 04-13-07, 01:41 PM |
YOU AND GOD KNOW!!
wHAT’S THE SECOND COMMANDMENT ABOUT?
My how lil pUNDIT supporters and uncle toms make claims! Like he knows why I do or did not do!
Its very clear why my name(galljdaj) was stollen! Fear and cowardice of those unable...
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Pontotoc Bill 04-13-07, 02:34 PM |
Unregistered;23266: wHAT’S THE SECOND COMMANDMENT ABOUT?
My how lil pUNDIT supporters and uncle toms make claims! Like he knows why I do or did not do!
Its very clear why my name(galljdaj) was stollen! Fear and cowardice of those unable...
Nothing was stolen, cry baby. You NEVER owned the registered name so you NEVER had anything stolen. As for the credibility of the name galljdaj, it was worthless and in the septic tank until someone registered it. Now, that registered name (galljdaj) has posted some good and useful info so that name is good again. However, the Any Mouse moron who claims to have had the name stolen is still wallowing in the septic tank with the other offal.
Is this a family portrait?
And a photo of your medical condition,

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Anonymous 04-13-07, 02:49 PM |
Well that's a great support for the Israelis having...
to use Palesrtinians as 'shields'!
How hated the poor Israelis must be. Keep your head in there, I remember you always, at least when I use a bathroom.
I wonder if laughing at you will help with a dump!
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