{"id":3901,"date":"2014-09-18T20:47:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-18T17:47:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-01-08T19:58:22","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T17:58:22","slug":"epalestine-hill-us-guilty-of-war-crimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/2014\/09\/epalestine-hill-us-guilty-of-war-crimes\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hill: US guilty of war crimes in Palestine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\" trbidi=\"on\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">The Hill (Congress Blog)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">September 18, 2014<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-large;\"><strong>US guilty of war crimes in Palestine<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/congress-blog\/foreign-policy\/218067-us-guilty-of-war-crimes-in-palestine\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/US-guilty-in-Palestine\" src=\"https:\/\/ePalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/HAW_Report_Cover-1.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-3902\" height=\"400\" width=\"306\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">By Sam Bahour<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The U.S. is not a neutral mediator in the Palestinian-Israeli   conflict; it is an active participant and is guilty of the crimes being   committed by Israel against Palestinians, most recently, the mass   killings and destruction Israel wrought on the Gaza Strip during the   summer. The reality that the U.S. is an active supporter of unimaginable   suffering may very well be the motivating force behind the U.S.&#8217;s   adamant attempts to block the Palestinians from using any of the   internationally recognized tools of accountability to hold Israel   responsible, such as the International Court of Justice and the   International Criminal Court. When an indigenous, stateless population   is blocked access to opportunities for justice by superpowers like the   U.S., something is wrong\u2014deadly wrong.<\/p>\n<p>While Israeli bombs were   hammering Gaza, Alice Lynd with the assistance of Staughton Lynd,   drafted a 32-page pamphlet which was published by the Palestine-Israel   Working Group of Historians Against the War (HAW) titled, <a href=\"http:\/\/historiansagainstwar.org\/resources\/InternationalHumanRights.pdf\"><em>Violations by Israel and the Problem of Enforcement<\/em><\/a>   (August 2014). The policy paper places the U.S. in front of its own   mirror and meticulously documents how one hand of the U.S. government   systematically documents Israeli violations of U.S. law and   international law, while the other hand unconditionally dishes out   financial, military, and diplomatic support to Israel.<\/p>\n<p>READ ON AT:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/congress-blog\/foreign-policy\/218067-us-guilty-of-war-crimes-in-palestine\/\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/US-guilty-in-Palestine<\/a><\/p>\n<p>_____________________________________<\/p>\n<p>Everything about this list:<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/lists.riseup.net\/www\/info\/epalestine<\/p>\n<p>To subscribe, send mail to:<\/p>\n<p>epalestine-subscribe@lists.riseup.net<\/p>\n<p>To unsubscribe, send mail to:<\/p>\n<p>epalestine-unsubscribe@lists.riseup.net<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hill (Congress Blog) September 18, 2014 US guilty of war crimes in Palestine By Sam Bahour The U.S. is not a neutral mediator in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict; it is an active participant and is guilty of the crimes being committed by Israel against Palestinians, most recently, the mass killings and destruction Israel wrought on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3902,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[942],"tags":[617,618,48,978,979,439,40,158],"ppma_author":[936],"class_list":["post-3901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sams-writings","tag-gazaunderattack","tag-palestineunderattack","tag-gaza","tag-international-court-of-justice-icj","tag-international-criminal-court-icc","tag-israeli-defense-forces","tag-israeli-occupation","tag-occupied-territories"],"authors":[{"term_id":936,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"sambahour","display_name":"Sam Bahour","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/bca109c333bf6d8ae807746dd512adde46265d37c923f6cd0fc4aab437f8e9aa?s=96&d=mm&r=g","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3901"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10081,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3901\/revisions\/10081"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3901"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=3901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}