ISRAEL MUST REMIND TURKEY OF MONSTROUS DEEDS AGAINST ARMENIANS, SAYS ISRAELI POLITICIAN

Tert
Nov 11 2009
Armenia

Last week saw the start of the debate on the UN Goldstone Report,
which concluded that both Israel and Hamas committed serious war
crimes, and possibly, crimes against humanity, during the conflict
in December 2008 and January 2009.

Israel, however, slammed the UN Human Rights Council’s adoption of
an "unjust" report on the Gaza war, warning that it damaged Middle
East peace efforts and encouraged "terrorist organisations" around
the world.

The resolution in the report calls for the prosecution of senior
Israeli officials in the International Criminal Court (ICC) at The
Hague should Tel Aviv fail to launch its own investigations into the
Gaza war under international scrutiny within six months.

If the decision is passed by the ICC, then Israeli officials may face
charges of having committed war crimes, reports the Epoch Times.

According to Professor of International Communication at Bar-Ilan
University Eytan Gilboa, Israel doesn’t have enough influence to
officially oppose these countries, but unofficially, Israel may make
efforts to change the public’s opinion in its favour.

"The State of Israel must act by other methods: bring an action
against those countries and asking for the creation of a commission to
investigate Russia’s actions in Chechnya and China’s actions against
its own people, as well as to initiate proceedings against the US
and NATO, which, too, committed crimes against humanity. Israel has
no problem in bringing up examples of more serious crimes committed
against humanity than those it has allegedly committed."

Continuing, Gilboa stated, "Accusing Turkey in massacres against
Armenians isn’t a problem, but Israel must not act as a state in this
matter. All that which is connected with human rights must be raised
by non-governmental organizations."

For his part, Moshe Feiglin, a renowned critic in Israel’s foreign
policy and leader of Likud Party faction, stated that Israel must act
also proceeding from Jewish morality and justice, and not solely from
a practical perspective.

"The state and people of Israel must show the whole world where
morality can be found, what is good and what is evil. And we are
hiding from our mission and transforming into monstrous perpetrators.

The Israeli state must show both China and Turkey their monstrous
deeds. But we probably aren’t doing that: [we are] acting in our own
interests and losing our reputation. Thus, Israel departs from issues
of morality and justice concerning China, issues related to Armenians,
as well as from itself," Feiglin said.
From: Baghdasarian