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Belgian hi-tech company specializing in consulting notifies manager of Israeli company seeking cooperation that "your country has conducted war crimes and is an apartheid regime".

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ynet news - 09/27/06
by Ehud Kenan

Hi-tech firm boycotts Israel over war crimes

Following the recent war in Lebanon, Ynet has received several complaints from Israeli companies that have encountered refusal of companies from various countries to cooperate with Israelis because of the war.

Avner, an Israeli businessman specializing in product management and consulting approached a Belgian company in hopes of business cooperation.

The company, U2U, refused to cooperate with the Israeli businessman because of what they called "Israel's war crimes and apartheid regime."

U2U manager Wim Yotrasprot wrote in a statement to Avner obtained by Ynet that

I appreciate your interest in my company, but after the devastating and inhumane war crimes Israel perpetrated in Lebanon, and because of the apartheid regime it rules on Palestine, U2U does not wish to tie itself with Israeli products.

"I hope that the political situation in your country will radically change and will be based on peace and respect to non-Jewish cultures," he added. Despite the anger, Yotrasprot signed the letter with "best wishes."

Website: ynetnews.com

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Israel has turned the Gaza Strip into a prison for Palestinians where life is intolerable, a human rights envoy has told the United Nations Human Rights Council.

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Aljazeera - 09/27/06

Israel violates international laws

John Dugard, special UN rapporteur on human rights in the occupied Palestinian territory, said on Tuesday that the US, Europe and Canada had failed the Palestinian people by withdrawing funds since Hamas's refusal to accept Israel's right to exist.

He also described the Palestinians' lives as appalling and tragic.

He said: "In other countries this process might be described as ethnic cleansing but political correctness forbids such language where Israel is concerned."

"If the international community cannot take some action, it must not be surprised if the people of the planet disbelieve that they are seriously committed to the promotion of human rights."

Israel hit back saying there was an "alarming disconnect" between the rapporteur's report to the UN's human rights watchdog and the experience of Israelis who continued to face the "daily threat of Palestinian terrorism".

And what do Palestinians continue to face? They continue to face the daily threat of the Israeli government stealing more of their land, the Israeli army killing more of their children.

But Dugard, who has been a special UN investigator since 2001, said:

Israel violates international law as expounded by the Security Council and the International Court of Justice and goes unpunished.

But the Palestinian people are punished for having democratically elected a regime [Hamas] unacceptable to Israel, the US and the EU.

Dugard said that three-quarters of Gaza's 1.4 million people were dependent on food aid.

Bombing raids by Israel since the June 25 capture of an army corporal by Palestinian militants had destroyed many houses and the territory's only power plant.

The West Bank also faced a humanitarian crisis, due to the barrier, which Dugard said was a move by Israel to annex [steal] more land.

War crime

An Israeli human rights group has condemned Israel's bombing of a Gaza power plant as a war crime.

B'Tselem, an independent group that monitors Israel's occupation of the West Bank and its policies in Gaza, said Israel could have used "less harmful alternatives".

Israeli war planes [provided by the United States] largely destroyed the power plant outside Gaza City on June 28.

Israel said at the time that it bombed the plant to cut power supplies and therefore make it more difficult for Palestinian fighters to operate following their kidnap of an Israeli soldier on June 25.

The bombing cut off electricity to many of Gaza's 1.4 million residents, affecting hospitals and food supplies, and had a knock-on impact on water and sewage systems.

"The bombing of the power plant was illegal and defined as a war crime in international humanitarian law as the attack was aimed at a purely civilian object," the rights group said in a report entitled Act of Vengeance.

"Even if one adopts the doubtful claim that the attack provided some definite military advantage, it was disproportionate and Israel had other, less harmful alternatives."

What is described as disproportionate depends on who is making the assessment. You and I may consider Israel's bombing of a civilian power plant, denying electricity to more than a million people, as a disproportionate retaliation for the kidnapping of one soldier. But people who follow a religion based upon the Babylonian Talmud have a different set of values, a different sense of proportion. --
Rabbi Yaacov Perrin

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Signs of the Times
September 14, 2006

Israeli Diplomat Carrying Large Quantity Of Explosives Arrested In Argentina

On Wednesday 9th August 2006, Ezeiza airport [Buenos Aires] police arrested an important Israeli diplomat carrying a considerable quantity of explosives. The Zionist representative was en route to Chile and was detained minutes before boarding a plane. Despite his protests, airport police arrested him and informed the Argentine interior ministry of the situation which ordered that the situation be contained.

Firstly, it should be noted that the airport police, all ex aeronautical military police, were previously under the control of the Defence ministry and military command. Since the 'Four winds' (drugs) scandal however, control of this unit has passed to political funcionaries of the Kirchner (Argentine President) government . . .

According to various airport sources, including the members of the airport security unit, a verbal argument erupted between members of the unit and and members of the Kirchner government who wanted to free the Israeli diplomat because there was no precedent for this type of arrest, which included the implication that if anything were happen as a result of the release of the bomb-laden Israeli diplomat, the blame would fall on the airport security unit.

Towards the invention of a "third attack"

For years, various reporters and indepdendent researchers have been highlighting the false nature of the "attacks" on the Israeli embassy in Argentina and on the headquarters of AMIA (Argentine Israelite Mutual Association) which was "truck bombed" in July 1994 and the blame placed on Hizb'allah.

For example, the online magazine "Libertad de Opinion" conducted an exclusive investigation into the Israeli embassy truck bombing in Buenos Aires in July 1994 which was blamed on Islamic Jihad. It revealed reports submitted to the Supreme Court by engineers who had studied the scene of the embassy bombing and who asserted that

1. There was in fact no truck bomb.
2. The building was destroyed by an implosion from within the building.
3. A crater was created before hand to provide evidence for the claim by
local Zionist organisations that a truck bomb was the cause.

In May of 1999, the print edition of the same magazine published another shocking article in which it revealed the clues and questions that led many investigators to dismiss the "Islamic terrorist" hypothesis and to conclude that the the previously mentioned AMIA bombing in July 1994 was also the result of an internal implosion, caused by the detonation of a box full of explosives that had been sent to the AMIA building by an Israeli community in Cordoba.

Today, Red Kalki is publishing details of both events so that readers can analyse and come to their own conclusions.

We observe that, despite the powerful interests who attempted to silence these issues, the claims of "Libertad de Opinion" have stood the test of time. Today, those who were originally accused of the "attack" have been freed due to a lack of evidence.

Instead the ex-judge and Zionist Jose Galeano, the ex-president of the DAIA (Delegation of Israeli Associations of Argentina) and the well known Zionist conman and bank robber, Ruben Baraja, are instead being prosecuted, while employee of the Argentine daily paper Pagina Argentina and peddler of Zionist lies, Raul Kollman, is also being investigated.

Third "attack" is in preparation

A few weeks after Israel initiated its new aggression against Palestine and Lebanon, the Delegation of Israeli Associations of Argentina (DAIA) and the Wiesenthal Center, again began to proclaim to the press that a "third attack" in Argentina was in preparation.

At the same time, the White House and the Pentagon began to announce results of their supposed investigations over the "latent dangers" in the Tripel Frontier area (area where the borders of Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay meet) from the presence of the sizable "Arab Islamic community" there, including the suggestion that "al-Qaeda fighters" were ensconsed there.

With the war in the Middle East already begun, a phenomenon, unexpected by Israel, occurred in the form of a unanimous rejection of organized Zionism by European and Latin-American liberals. At the same time, South American governments refused to support Israeli terrorist policies, some through conviction and others in order to not appear as allies of colonialism.

In the case of Argentina, large-scale demonstrations by the Arab community took place which provoked the anger of local Zionist representatives, to the point that members of the Olmert government sent missives to the DAIA and the AMIA requesting that, in order to show their absolute and unfailing loyalty to Israel, they travel to Israel to personally express their support for the Israeli policy of unbridled genocide.

From all of this, it became clear to the Israelis that their image had passed from that of the victim to the victimiser. They concluded that the peoples of the world no longer looked upon them with pity but with repulsion, and as such, the Israelis are now desperately seeking new ways to re-esablish their role as that of the victim, a role which has always served them well to justify the mafia-like patronage of the US and the US military invasions of Israel's neighbors.

According to sources, a dramatic "attack" is being planned for South America, in order to neutralise the growing rejection of Zionist barbarity among South American governments.

During the recent conflict, no South American government desired to come out in favor of Israel, and none wanted to openly criticise Hizb'allah.

Given the existing conditions in the country, to the rest of the world a "third Islamic terror attack" in Argentina might appear quite credible. There also exists the possibility of such a 'false flag' attack in Chile where another large Palestinian community resides. Either of these two countries appear as likely targets, keeping in mind the recent arrest of the bomb-laden Israeli diplomat en route to Chile.

The arrest of the diplomat set off alarm bells in the Casa Rosada (Argentina's 'White House'). Instead of making the arrest public and demanding explanations from Tel Aviv, the Kirchner government chose to maintain a disconcerting silence and allowed the days to pass.

Rafael Eldad, Israeli ambassador to Argentina and self-declared Zionist who has sons in the Israeli military, following instructions from the Israeli government, must surely have intervened in a shameless way in the matter of the arrest of the bomb-laden Israeli diplomat.

What will happen in upcoming months?

This is the important question that Argentine security forces are asking. After the Israeli diplomat debacle; will Tel Aviv call off or push forward with a similar "third attack"?

In the Zionist leadership, we notice something of a tendency towards an absolute loss of control caused by the fact that reality is not conforming to its nefarious plans.

In an act of rage and impotence at not having achieved its military aims in Lebanon, in the last few days of the conflict, Israeli war planes dropped tons of bombs on Lebanese houses, hospitals, schools and religious temples, reaffirming in this way the genocidal policies of the Israeli invaders.

The Zionist leadership in Argentina shares this irrational hatred and is totally subordinate to the directives of the Israeli government. Given this situation, intelligence analysts from various countries agree that it is difficult to predict the exact nature of the Zionist plans for Argentina and its neighbors.

We hope that the Argentine government will finally do what must be done -- reveal what happened at the airport; provide the complete details of the Israeli diplomat's identity; begin the necessary judicial investigation and demand immediate explanations from the Zionist regime in Israel.

The Argentine government must also understand that to continue to cover up such matters, involves clearly forseeable risks to the security of the Argentine people and their country.

Website: signs-of-the-times.org