Israel Should Tell
Leahy to ‘Go to Hell’ with His Outrageous Human Rights ‘Violations’ Claim
by Aaron Klein 30 Mar 2016
TEL AVIV – Only the most demented of minds could
single out the sole democracy in the Middle East,
the country that goes much further than any other nation on earth to protect
civilians in the battle field, and accuse said nation of possibly committing
“gross violations of human rights.”
Enter from stage far-left Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) 4%
(D-Vt.), Rep. André
D. Carson and nine other shameful Democratic lawmakers with a letter asking
Secretary of State John Kerry to probe claims that Israeli and
Egyptian security forces have committed human rights violations.
The letter strongly implies that if the allegations are
proven true, U.S. military aid to the countries should be affected.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
did not go far enough on Wednesday when he replied to the
request for a probe by releasing a statement assailing Leahy’s letter: “The IDF
and security forces are not murderers.”
“IDF soldiers and Israeli police put their lives on the
line to defend themselves and innocent civilians from bloodthirsty terrorists
who try to kill them.
“Where is the concern for the violations of the
human rights of many Israelis who have been murdered or wounded by criminal
killers? This letter should have been addressed to those who incite children to
engage in acts of cruel terrorism,” Netanyahu said.
Netanyahu should have told Leahy and his fellow travelers
to go to hell.
Letter signatories Reps. Rep. Chellie Pingree (D-ME) 24%,
Raul Grijalva and Rep. Jim McDermott (D-WA) 21% have long histories
of petitioning for normalization with Cuba, and they have nothing to say in
their anti-Israel rant to Kerry about their favourite human rights abuser off
the coast of the Florida Keys.
Carson, the second Muslim to be elected to Congress, has taken
campaign contributions from the Council on American-Islamic
Relations, or CAIR, an unindicted co-conspirator in a terror-financing trial in
which the federal judge found “ample evidence” of CAIR’s links to Hamas.
And as I
first reported, Israel accuser Carson has evidenced a close
relationship with the Islamic Society of North America, a group listed by the Muslim
Brotherhood as a “like minded” organization that shares the goal of an Islamic
nation.
Now let’s get to the specifics of the lawmakers’ loose
accusations against Israel.
The letter,
dated Feb 17 and reported on
Tuesday by Politico, specifically cited four allegations allegedly documented
by the anti-Israel, George Soros-funded Amnesty International, which in
the past has accused Israel and America of “war crimes,” controversial
accusations that were highly
disputed.
This smear tactic is akin to the radical gambit of taking
extreme cases – usually out of context – of alleged police brutality and using
the purported actions of a tiny minority to paint every U.S. police officer
with a broad brush.
Only in the case of Israel, the cited examples are far
more complex. And the context of these instances is quite unusual. Israel is
facing an unprecedented campaign of Palestinian stabbings carried out by
individuals wearing civilian clothes and hiding their weapons until the moment
of attack.
IDF soldiers and police forces here are operating in a
stressful theater, a near constant real-life horror movie playing out with
violent Palestinian attacks on an almost daily basis and sometimes several
times per day.
The letter asks Kerry to inquire whether Israeli security
forces acting against Palestinian attackers took action that would trigger the
implementation of Leahy Law, a law authored by Leahy himself that prohibits the
State Department and Pentagon from providing military assistance to foreign
militaries that violate human tights with impunity.
Leahy asked Kerry to probe the following four deaths:
Fadi Alloun, a 19-year old resident of East
Jerusalem’s Issawiya neighborhood who stabbed a 15-year-old and was shot and
killed when he fled and security forces noticed a knife in his hand.
Video showed that he
was stalking the streets of Jerusalem with the knife when he was shot by
Israeli police officers from afar.
Far-left human rights groups have claimed that Israeli
forces did not need to shoot Alloun and should have approached the
knife-wielding teen to arrest him.
Sa’ad Al-Atrash, a Palestinian accused of
attacking Israeli soldiers with a knife at a checkpoint when he was shot and
killed. Atrash’s family claimed without evidence that he was not armed and that
he was shot for no apparent reason while quarrelling with an Israeli soldier
who had asked for his ID.
Hadeel al-Hashlamoun, an 18-year old Palestinian
girl shot and killed under questionable circumstances while she was at a
checkpoint. Amnesty’s own witness, however, says she had a knife, yet the
organization still accused Israeli forces of engaging in an “extra judicial
execution.”
Amnesty claimed:
“Even if al-Hashlamoun did have a knife, Israeli
soldiers, who are protected with body armour and heavily equipped with advanced
weapons, could have controlled the situation and arrested her without
threatening her life. Open fire regulations of the Israeli military in the
occupied West Bank allow soldiers to open fire only when their lives are in
imminent danger, and Amnesty International concludes that
this was not the case in the shooting of al-Hashlamoun, as she was standing
still and separated from the soldiers by a metal barrier.”
The IDF carried out its own internal investigation
and concluded soldiers
should have only arrested her in the case.
Mutaz Ahmad Uweisat, a 16-year old Palestinian
shot and killed while attempting to stab an officer near the West Bank
settlement of Armon Hanatziv. Anti-Israel conspiracy
theorists have baselessly claimed that Israel planted a knife on
Uweisat’s body and that he was shot for no reason.
In these cases, it should be pointed out that there is a
threat-to-life to approach and disarm a knife-wielding assailant. I have
been taking advanced Krav Maga (Israeli hand-to-hand combat) courses for three
years now and somewhat specialize in disarming attackers with knives from many
different directions. I have received far more training in the field of
knife attacks than most IDF soldiers and police officers. And yet even for me,
such a feat is fraught with immediate risk to life. As Krav Maga trainees know,
it is more dangerous to disarm a knife-wielding attacker than an assailant with
a gun.
Meanwhile, what Leahy, Carson and their comrades
conveniently leave out is that, unlike the rest of the Middle East, Israel
follows the rule of democratic law; it has its own very active judiciary and
independent military investigators and it will take action against any soldier
or civilian who commits a crime.
They also neglect to mention that Israel goes beyond what
any other country does to protect civilians. When it comes to aerial strikes,
for example, the IDF regularly warns civilians
of incoming attacks with phone calls and text messages. It further employs
“roof knocking” – or firing warning shots before any aerial bombing. If
civilians still don’t evacuate, the Israeli army many times
makes announcements on loudspeakers. The IDF has called
off scores of military raids because civilians were in the
way.
Middle East
Saban
Center for Middle East Policy is a policy center at the Brookings Institution (think tank).
Note: Haim Saban is a
benefactor at the Saban Center for
Middle East Policy, a friend of Shimon
Peres, and an honorary trustee at the Brookings
Institution (think tank).
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Brookings Institution
(think tank), and Amnesty
International.
George Soros
was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.
Shimon Peres is a
friend of Haim Saban, and was the
president of Israel.
Sidley Austin
LLP is the lobby firm for Israel.
Michelle Obama
was a lawyer at Sidley Austin LLP.
Barack
Obama was an intern at Sidley Austin
LLP.
R. Eden Martin is
counsel at Sidley Austin LLP, and
the president of the Commercial Club of
Chicago.
Newton N. Minow is
a senior counsel at Sidley Austin LLP,
and a member of the Commercial Club of
Chicago.
Commercial Club of
Chicago, Members Directory A-Z (Past Research)
Tuesday, December 17, 2013
Valerie B. Jarrett
is a member of the Commercial Club of
Chicago, the senior adviser for the Barack
Obama administration, and her great uncle is Vernon E. Jordan Jr.
Cyrus F.
Freidheim Jr. is a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago, and an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank).
Vernon E. Jordan
Jr. is Valerie B.
Jarrett’s great uncle, an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution
(think tank), a
director at the American Friends of Bilderberg (think tank), the president
emeritus for the Robert Trent Jones Golf
Club (Gainesville, VA), was the president of the Economic Club of Washington, and a 2008 Bilderberg conference
participant (think tank).
John G. Roberts
Jr. is an honorary member of the Robert
Trent Jones Golf Club (Gainesville, VA), and the chancellor for the Smithsonian Institution.
Joseph R. Biden Jr.
is a regent at the Smithsonian
Institution, and the vice president for the Barack Obama administration.
Patrick J. Leahy
is a regent at the Smithsonian
Institution, a U.S. Senate
senator, and was a board member for the National
Museum of Natural History.
National
Museum of Natural History is an institution member of the Smithsonian Institution.
David M.
Rubenstein is a regent at the Smithsonian
Institution, a board member for the National
Museum of Natural History, the president of the Economic Club of Washington, and a co-chairman for the Brookings Institution (think tank).
Saban
Center for Middle East Policy is a policy center at the Brookings Institution (think tank).
Cameron F. Kerry
is a fellow at the Brookings Institution
(think tank), and John F. Kerry’s
brother.
John
F. Kerry is Cameron F. Kerry’s
brother, the secretary at the U.S. Department of State for the Barack Obama administration, and married
to Teresa Heinz Kerry.
Teresa Heinz
Kerry is married to John F. Kerry,
and an honorary trustee at the Brookings
Institution (think tank).
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Brookings Institution
(think tank), Amnesty International,
and Refugees International.
George Soros
was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society,
and is a director emeritus for Refugees
International.
Constance J.
Milstein is a director emeritus for Refugees
International, and the chair emeritus & co-founder for the Humpty Dumpty Institute.
Ralph L. Cwerman
is the president & co-founder of the Humpty
Dumpty Institute, and was Benjamin
Netanyahu’s senior aide.
Benjamin
Netanyahu’s senior aide was Ralph L.
Cwerman, and is the prime minister for Israel.
Shimon Peres was
the president of Israel, and is a
friend of Haim Saban.
Haim
Saban is a friend of Shimon Peres,
an honorary trustee at the Brookings
Institution (think tank), and a benefactor for the Saban Center for Middle East Policy.
Saban
Center for Middle East Policy is a policy center at the Brookings Institution (think tank).
Richard C. Blum is
an honorary trustee at the Brookings
Institution (think tank), and married to Senator Dianne Feinstein.
Dianne Feinstein
is married to Richard C. Blum, a U.S. Senate senator, and Daniel B. Shapiro was her legislative
assistant.
Daniel B. Shapiro
was Senator Dianne Feinstein’s legislative
assistant, and is a U.S. ambassador for Israel.
Thomas R.
Pickering was a U.S. ambassador for Israel,
a trustee at the Carnegie Corporation of
New York, and is a distinguished fellow at the Brookings Institution (think tank).
Carnegie
Corporation of New York was a funder for the Brookings Institution (think tank).
Newton N. Minow
is an honorary trustee at the Carnegie
Corporation of New York, a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, and a senior counsel at Sidley Austin LLP.
R. Eden Martin is
the president of the Commercial Club of
Chicago, and counsel at Sidley
Austin LLP.
Michelle Obama
was a lawyer at Sidley Austin LLP.
Barack
Obama was an intern at Sidley Austin
LLP.
Sidley Austin
LLP is the lobby firm for Israel.
Israel
is a member of the United Nations.
Food
and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations is an agency for the United Nations.
Dionne Warwick is
a goodwill ambassador for the Food and
Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, and a member of the Zeta Phi Beta.
Julia M. Carson was
a member of the Zeta Phi Beta, Andre Carson’s grandmother.
Andre Carson’s
grandmother was Julia M. Carson, is a
member of the U.S. House of
Representatives, and his Religion is
Muslim.
André Carson
André D. Carson (born
October 16, 1974) is the U.S. Representative for Indiana's 7th congressional district,
serving since a special election in 2008. He is a member of the Democratic Party.
He is the grandson of his
predecessor, former U.S. Representative Julia Carson (1938–2007).[1][2]
Carson is the second Muslim to be elected to the United States Congress, following Keith Ellison
in 2006.
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