Peres: Israel will consider joining chemical weapons ban treaty

[SherriMunnerlyn]

Reuters. The Israeli government will seriously consider joining the international treaty banning chemical weapons after Syria said it would destroy its own toxic arsenal, President Shimon Peres said on Monday.

Israel remains one of just six countries in the world not to have joined the 1997 Chemical Weapons Convention following Syria's move this month."I am sure our government will consider it seriously," Peres told reporters in The Hague, the Dutch city that is home to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), which oversees the convention.As with its nuclear arsenal, Israel has never publicly admitted to having chemical weapons. Intelligence Minister Yuval Steinitz said this month that Israel would be ready to discuss the issue when there was peace in the Middle East.Peres' role as head of state is largely ceremonial but he is an influential figure on the world stage and was instrumental in turning Israel into an undeclared nuclear power in the 1960s. Under a joint Russian-U.S. proposal, Syria has committed to destroying its chemical weapons arsenal within nine months. It is believed to comprise around 1,000 metric tons of sarin, mustard and XV nerve agents.

Peres: Israel will consider joining chemical weapons ban treaty - Alarabiya.net English | Front Page

It certainly is time for Israel to ratify this treaty and stop using chemical weapons and destroy their chemical weapons stockpile.

Rain Of Fire is the name of a Human Rights Watch Report documenting Israels unlawful use of chemical weapons in Cast Lead, an operation in Gaza in which Israel ended the lives of 1391 Palestinians, mostly civilians, 344 of whom were children.

Israel needs to stop using chemical weapons to injure and kill in her Occupation of Palestine.

 

[Sweet_Caroline]

Israel does not have and has never used chemical weapons. That has been talked about on another thread on here just within the last few days. You use any excuse to twist and turn and tell lies against Israel.

 

[SherriMunnerlyn]

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[SherriMunnerlyn]

Zionist Hasbara claims of denial to the use of chemical weapons are proven false by all the evidence documented by human rights organizations proving Israel used white phosphorous weapons to attack civilians with in Gaza.

 

[Sweet_Caroline]

Hamas were operating within residential areas. The IDF pre-warned of air-raids but Hamas force civilians to stay in the areas. It is known as Human Shields. Tragic, but war should not be fought within residential areas. Hamas being the cowards they are hide behind civilians and openly admit to doing so. Those people are at the mercy of a dreadful Hamas government, a terrorist organisation, who are gleeful when civilians die and are injured because everyone falls for their claim blaming the Israelis for 'targeting' civilians. When will Hamas care more about its civilians than they do about trying to make it look like Israel targets civilians.

You lose again Sherri.

 

[SherriMunnerlyn]

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CNN Report confirmed it.

 

[SherriMunnerlyn]

Hamas were operating within residential areas. The IDF pre-warned of air-raids but Hamas force civilians to stay in the areas. It is known as Human Shields. Tragic, but war should not be fought within residential areas. Hamas being the cowards they are hide behind civilians and openly admit to doing so. Those people are at the mercy of a dreadful Hamas government, a terrorist organisation, who are gleeful when civilians die and are injured because everyone falls for their claim blaming the Israelis for 'targeting' civilians. When will Hamas care more about its civilians than they do about trying to make it look like Israel targets civilians.

You lose again Sherri.

Alleged acts of Hamas do not justify Israels use of chemical weapons on people.

These deliberate attacks of chemical weapons are unlawful and they are war crimes.

And Amnesty investigated claims of the use of Human Shields.

They found Israel used Palestinians as human shields.

They found no evidence Hamas used civilians as human shields.

 

[Sweet_Caroline]

Hamas were operating within residential areas. The IDF pre-warned of air-raids but Hamas force civilians to stay in the areas. It is known as Human Shields. Tragic, but war should not be fought within residential areas. Hamas being the cowards they are hide behind civilians and openly admit to doing so. Those people are at the mercy of a dreadful Hamas government, a terrorist organisation, who are gleeful when civilians die and are injured because everyone falls for their claim blaming the Israelis for 'targeting' civilians. When will Hamas care more about its civilians than they do about trying to make it look like Israel targets civilians.

You lose again Sherri.

Alleged acts of Hamas do not justify Israels use of chemical weapons on people.

These deliberate attacks of chemical weapons are unlawful and they are war crimes.

And Amnesty investigated claims of the use of Human Shields.

They found Israel used Palestinians as human shields.

They found no evidence Hamas used civilians as human shields.

There is plenty of proof of Hamas using civilians as human shields. Forcing them to stay in areas of warfare. WP is a legitimate method to use in warfare marking enemy targets. Had Israel known that civilians were in the vicinity of where the enemy army were, Israel would not have used WP.

 

[SherriMunnerlyn]

Israel used chemical weapons in Lebanon and Gaza

By Jean Shaoul*

Israel has admitted using phosphorous bombs during the war against Lebanon last summer, just days after being accused by an Italian television documentary programme of using dense inert metal missiles, which are highly carcinogenic, against the Palestinians in Gaza in July and August.After previously claiming that phosphorous bombs were only used to mark targets, Israeli cabinet minister, Jacob Edery, has now confirmed that “the Israeli army made use of phosphorous shells during the war against Hezbollah in attacks against military targets in open ground.”Phosphorus weapons cause chemical burns and the Red Cross and human rights groups argue they should be treated as chemical weapons. The use of chemical weapons against civilians or against military targets in civilian areas is outlawed by the Geneva Conventions. The US has insisted that Saddam Hussein be tried for using chemical weapons against civilians.Israel’s reversal of its previous claim that its weapons used in Lebanon did not contravene international conventions can only strengthen the claims by Palestinian doctors that Israel has used experimental heavy metal weapons against the people of Gaza.The Italian state television’s satellite channel, RAI News 24, which last year documented the US military’s use of white phosphorus against civilians during attacks on Fallujah, followed up reports from Gaza of inexplicably serious injuries.

Israel used chemical weapons in Lebanon and Gaza - World Socialist Web Site

 

[SherriMunnerlyn]

Hamas were operating within residential areas. The IDF pre-warned of air-raids but Hamas force civilians to stay in the areas. It is known as Human Shields. Tragic, but war should not be fought within residential areas. Hamas being the cowards they are hide behind civilians and openly admit to doing so. Those people are at the mercy of a dreadful Hamas government, a terrorist organisation, who are gleeful when civilians die and are injured because everyone falls for their claim blaming the Israelis for 'targeting' civilians. When will Hamas care more about its civilians than they do about trying to make it look like Israel targets civilians.

You lose again Sherri.

Alleged acts of Hamas do not justify Israels use of chemical weapons on people.

These deliberate attacks of chemical weapons are unlawful and they are war crimes.

And Amnesty investigated claims of the use of Human Shields.

They found Israel used Palestinians as human shields.

They found no evidence Hamas used civilians as human shields.

There is plenty of proof of Hamas using civilians as human shields. Forcing them to stay in areas of warfare. WP is a legitimate method to use in warfare marking enemy targets. Had Israel known that civilians were in the vicinity of where the enemy army were, Israel would not have used WP.

Some of us do not buy Zionist Hasbara claims, we look at what the human rights groups document and that is the unlawful use of chemical weapons by Israel and the unlawful Israeli use of Palestinians as human shields.

Israel used chemical weapons in Gaza and they were used against civilians and they included White Phosphorous weapons and also D.I.M.E. weapons.

ISRAEL needs to be held accountable for their chemical weapons war crimes .

AND we need a UN Resolution forving Israel to dispose of her chemical weapons arsenal if she does not ratify the chemical weapons treaty and voluntarily dispose of her chemical weapons arsenal.

 

[SherriMunnerlyn]

Dr. Mads Gilbert worked in the hospital in Gaza during Cast Lead and he says 50% of injuries were to women and children.

He wrote an article in The Lancet and a book about what he witnessed in Cast Lead that includes injuries and amputations caused by the unlawful use of D.I.M.E., he speaks of Israel deliberately targeting civilians and children.

 

[Sweet_Caroline]

White Phosphorous is a legitimate form of use in warfare. Again I mentioned above the human shields aspect. Why did Hamas operate from within civilian areas. Why didn't they evacuate the civilians to safety rather than force them to stay in areas of fighting. Why didn't the civilians evacuate to safety during the war. Why didn't they heed the warnings of Israel to get to safe areas. The casualties are the fault of Hamas, not of Israel. It really is very simple to understand.

 

[Sweet_Caroline]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JM0fTss0UX4]Col. Richard Kemp Testifies at U.N. on the IDF (israeli defence forces) - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Sweet_Caroline]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giJlG3KXq8c]Hamas Terrorists Use Innocent Civilians As Human Shields - YouTube[/ame]

 

[SherriMunnerlyn]

Israeli WMDs come under scrutiny

"All conflicts experience game changing events, or events that highlight issues with far reaching implications well beyond the initial causes of the conflict. The use of sarin gas in the Aug. 21 rocket attack on the Ghouta area of Damascus, apparently by the Syrian regime, has become such a watershed point. What was described by the U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon as a “war crime,” not only led to the involvement of major international powers in the civil war, but also shifted the focus from the on-going civil war in Syrian and its atrocities, to the proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMDs) in the region.Not surprisingly, soon after the U.S. and Russia agreed on steps needed to dismantle all Syrian chemical weapons, some international attention was diverted to Israel’s alleged WMDs, especially her reported nuclear capability. It was in fact President Vladimir Putin, in his typical direct manner, who made the link between Syrian chemical weapons and Israel’s nuclear weapons. He claimed that the Syrian chemical stockpile was a response to Israeli nuclear capability and her technological supremacy in the region. One wonders whether it was an attempt by Putin to divert attention from the fact that, while sparing his Syrian ally from the wrath of U.S. military force, he forced Assad to potentially surrender some of Syria’s military capability. Alternatively, for better or for worse, he no doubt wants to seize the opportunity of Russian diplomatic success to restore his country’s role in the Middle East, where it seemed to be marginalized at least since the end of the Cold War, if not before. Whatever his intentions were, Putin put Israel’s WMDs project under the spotlight once again. "

Israeli WMDs come under scrutiny - Alarabiya.net English | Front Page

 

[SherriMunnerlyn]

Russia moves to revive plans for conference on WMDs in Middle East

By REUTERS09/30/2013 20:16Select Language​▼

US fears conference might become forum for attacks on Israel, believed to be sole nuclear armed state in region.

MOSCOW - Russia wants to revive plans for a conference on ridding the Middle East of weapons of mass destruction now that Syria has pledged to abandon its chemical arms, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in comments published on Monday.Such a move could put Moscow at odds with Washington which announced the conference would be delayed last year. Analysts said it feared the event would be used to criticize its ally Israel, believed to be the region's only nuclear-armed state.

Russia moves to revive plans for conference on WMDs in Middle East | JPost | Israel News

 

[SherriMunnerlyn]

Jerusalem) - Israel's repeated firing of white phosphorus shells over densely populated areas of Gaza during its recent military campaign was indiscriminate and is evidence of war crimes, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today.The 71-page report, "Rain of Fire: Israel's Unlawful Use of White Phosphorus in Gaza," provides witness accounts of the devastating effects that white phosphorus munitions had on civilians and civilian property in Gaza. Human Rights Watch researchers in Gaza immediately after hostilities ended found spent shells, canister liners, and dozens of burnt felt wedges containing white phosphorus on city streets, apartment roofs, residential courtyards, and at a United Nations school. The report also presents ballistics evidence, photographs, and satellite imagery, as well as documents from the Israeli military and government.Militaries use white phosphorus primarily to obscure their operations on the ground by creating thick smoke. It can also be used as an incendiary weapon."In Gaza, the Israeli military didn't just use white phosphorus in open areas as a screen for its troops," said Fred Abrahams, senior emergencies researcher at Human Rights Watch and co-author of the report. "It fired white phosphorus repeatedly over densely populated areas, even when its troops weren't in the area and safer smoke shells were available. As a result, civilians needlessly suffered and died."The report documents a pattern or policy of white phosphorus use that Human Rights Watch says must have required the approval of senior military officers."For the needless civilian deaths caused by white phosphorus, senior commanders should be held to account," Abrahams said.

Israel: White Phosphorus Use Evidence of War Crimes | Human Rights Watch

 

[SherriMunnerlyn]

White Phosphorous is a legitimate form of use in warfare. Again I mentioned above the human shields aspect. Why did Hamas operate from within civilian areas. Why didn't they evacuate the civilians to safety rather than force them to stay in areas of fighting. Why didn't the civilians evacuate to safety during the war. Why didn't they heed the warnings of Israel to get to safe areas. The casualties are the fault of Hamas, not of Israel. It really is very simple to understand.

"In Gaza, the Israeli military didn't just use white phosphorus in open areas as a screen for its troops," said Fred Abrahams, senior emergencies researcher at Human Rights Watch and co-author of the report. "It fired white phosphorus repeatedly over densely populated areas, even when its troops weren't in the area and safer smoke shells were available. As a result, civilians needlessly suffered and died."The report documents a pattern or policy of white phosphorus use that Human Rights Watch says must have required the approval of senior military officers."For the needless civilian deaths caused by white phosphorus, senior commanders should be held to account," Abrahams said."


Israel: White Phosphorus Use Evidence of War Crimes | Human Rights Watch


Gaza is an Israeli maintained concentration camp.

The borders were closed, the inhabitants were locked inside their jail.

NOONE COULD LEAVE.

They were all just sitting ducks for Israel to target and kill, every man and woman and child in Gaza, all 1.7 million inhabitants of Gaza, over half of whom are children.

 

[SherriMunnerlyn]

You cite UN Watch, what can I do but laugh.

An organization created to whitewash Israeli war crimes.

WHAT a joke!

And what was the content, an opinion of an outsider that the IDF acted appropriately during Cast Lead, what a joke!

I said an outsider, he more accurately should be called a co conspirator in Israels war crimes.

 

[Lipush]

Reuters. The Israeli government will seriously consider joining the international treaty banning chemical weapons after Syria said it would destroy its own toxic arsenal, President Shimon Peres said on Monday.

Israel remains one of just six countries in the world not to have joined the 1997 Chemical Weapons Convention following Syria's move this month."I am sure our government will consider it seriously," Peres told reporters in The Hague, the Dutch city that is home to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), which oversees the convention.As with its nuclear arsenal, Israel has never publicly admitted to having chemical weapons. Intelligence Minister Yuval Steinitz said this month that Israel would be ready to discuss the issue when there was peace in the Middle East.Peres' role as head of state is largely ceremonial but he is an influential figure on the world stage and was instrumental in turning Israel into an undeclared nuclear power in the 1960s. Under a joint Russian-U.S. proposal, Syria has committed to destroying its chemical weapons arsenal within nine months. It is believed to comprise around 1,000 metric tons of sarin, mustard and XV nerve agents.

Peres: Israel will consider joining chemical weapons ban treaty - Alarabiya.net English | Front Page

It certainly is time for Israel to ratify this treaty and stop using chemical weapons and destroy their chemical weapons stockpile.

Rain Of Fire is the name of a Human Rights Watch Report documenting Israels unlawful use of chemical weapons in Cast Lead, an operation in Gaza in which Israel ended the lives of 1391 Palestinians, mostly civilians, 344 of whom were children.

Israel needs to stop using chemical weapons to injure and kill in her Occupation of Palestine.

Israel never gased people

And even though Mr Peres has no authority to say such a thing, if Israel indeed does so, it will be a positive step