if Israel is trying to claim the moral high ground they lead by example and deal with their own extremist settlers.
“There is a simple truth that cannot be ignored,” he said. “Peace will only come when the Palestinians are willing to confront their own extremists. Instead of embracing the militants, the PA should fight them; instead of rewarding Palestinian intransigence, the European democracies should support the one and only democracy in the Middle East.”
This whole thing is a tragic stain on history that must be resolved for the benefit of everyone. I dont have a problem with the Jewish state merely their methods and the treatment of Palestinians.
Lets call it for what it really is that "G" word.
We must not be cowered into standing up and speaking out, for if we fail to do it we are dishonouring history and the 11 million that died in the camps.
Article II of the Convention defines genocide as:
...any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:
(a) Killing members of the group;
(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
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