Profiles in Courage

[gryfin]

Halutz hospitalized with abdominal pain
By Ran Reznick

Chief of staff Lt. Gen. Dan Halutz was hospitalized briefly on Friday for abdominal pain. He was released shortly after tests found nothing wrong.

His doctors recommended that he rest and eat regular meals.

Acquaintances suggested Halutz was feeling weak due to a lack of sleep and food, which in turn stems from the pressure on the chief of staff due to the fighting in the north and the Gaza Strip.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/744047.html

Unlike Lebanese children, you get to go to the hospital when you have a tummy ache.

 

[gryfin]

My, my...is that a yellow streak I see?

Israeli evades arrest at Heathrow over army war crime allegations

· Retired general tipped off after judge issues warrant
· Ex-commander accused of demolishing Gaza homes

Vikram Dodd and Conal Urquhart in Tel Aviv
Monday September 12, 2005
The Guardian

Scotland Yard was thwarted yesterday in its attempt to seize a former senior Israeli army officer at Heathrow airport for alleged war crimes in occupied Palestinian lands after a British judge had issued a warrant for his arrest.

British detectives were waiting for retired Major General Doron Almog who was aboard an El Al flight which arrived from Israel yesterday. It is believed he was tipped off about his impending arrest while in the air and stayed on the plane to avoid capture until it flew back to Israel. Scotland Yard detectives were armed with a warrant naming Mr Almog as a war crimes suspect for offences that breached the Geneva conventions.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,1568001,00.html

Brave enough to kill Palestinians, not brave enough to face a judge.

 

[gryfin]

Doesn't take much to frighten him

Sharon fears arrest if he visits London
By Ian MacKinnon, Sean O’Neill and David Charter
Israeli leader snubs Blair’s invitation after court issues warrant for general
BRITAIN is desperate to avoid a diplomatic row with Israel after Ariel Sharon apparently snubbed an invitation from Tony Blair to visit London, claiming that he feared arrest.

The Israeli Prime Minister is understood to have cited the case of a senior general who narrowly escaped detention at Heathrow on war crimes charges last week. Doran Almog remained on an El Al Boeing 747 rather than risk falling into the hands of Scotland Yard after a human rights group lodged charges that cannot be brought in Israel.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1784018,00.html

Without a huge advantage, he hides at home. I guess he knows what might happen to him if the truth came out.

 

[basketcase]

Didn't the world have a huge problem a while ago with the US trying to impose their idea of law on the rest of the world?

I guess gryf that you have run out of other propoganda and are criticising a guy for getting sick, one step above insulting his mother. It is also really classy to insult a guy who is lying in a hospital bed almost dead (you might also claim that his "coma" is a continuation of his excuses not to go to England). If that is the limit of your ability to argue your case, I hope you soon return to your elementary schools and do some studying.

 

[gryfin]

I thought they said Hezbollah does this?

0 July 2006: Israeli Soldiers use civilians as Human Shields in Beit Hanun

B'Tselem's initial investigation indicates that, during an incursion by Israeli forces into Beit Hanun, in the northern Gaza Strip, on 17 July 2006, soldiers seized control of two buildings in the town and used residents as human shield.

After seizing control of the buildings, the soldiers held six residents, two of them minors, on the staircases of the two buildings, at the entrance to rooms in which the soldiers positioned themselves, for some twelve hours. During this time, there were intense exchanges of gunfire between the soldiers and armed Palestinians. The soldiers also demanded that one of the occupants walk in front of them during a search of all the apartments in one of the buildings, after which they released her.

International humanitarian law forbids using civilians as human shields by placing them next to soldiers or next to military facilities, with the intention of gaining immunity from attack, or by forcing the civilians to carry out dangerous military assignments.

http://www.btselem.org/english/Human_Shields/20060720_Human_Shields_in_Beit_Hanun.asp

Remember what I said? Don't look at what Israel says..look at what Israel does.

 

[basketcase]

1. What does your post have to do with this useless thread?

2. Have you posted this in enough places yet?

3. Are you using the smyth principle and just posting of topic reports in as many places as possible.

4. As I asked in another thread, does this mean you are against Hezbollah, Hamas, et. al. intentionally opperating in the midst of their civillian population?

5. Why don't you look at both what Heabollah says and does. They have no regard for lives on either side, except that of their own leadership.

 

[papasmerf]

JFK was a POS andno more

his words showed little courage

 

[papasmerf]

JFK should have won the Medal of Honor in the Pacific.
Read his real story and you will understand he had
balls of steel

He didn't because his father, Joseph Kennedy, made
the incredibly stipid decision to support Hitler.

You can say what you want but get your facts strait.
He and Kerry served honorably. Those that never
served should be the last to disparage those others
that have.

If you weren't shot at shut up.

Don

Post WW!! JFK was a POS

Sorry bro but he was his fathers pawn

 

[basketcase]

To add gryf, why do you claim that Israel has no right to prosecute criminals within their own territory yet the Brits have the moral authority to prosecute what they percieve of as crimes in other countries?

You could take a look at the Pinochet case where the Brits tried something similar with no results. They let him go in the end because he was too sick but I bet you still think they should prosecute the guy who is barely alive in a coma. Me thinks that this whole issue is the Brits are still bitter over their loss of empire and feel they are still allowed to legislate to the great unwashed of the world.

ps. sorry guys, didn't mean to interfere with your JFK arguement even though I have no idea how papa worked it into this thread.

 

[papasmerf]

Cheap shots at an assassinated POTUS
that served in Combat in WWII. Do you
respect anyone that isn't an R?

Sometimes you go over the line with your
partisan rhetoric, pops.

Either you're an American or you're not.
It's just that simple pops. This R rhetoric
is dividing us from ourselves. A house
divided.....

Growing up. I belived JFK was a HERO and he was during WWII. His service to the men of PT109 showed a courage found in few.

 

[mrpolarbear]

Growing up. I belived JFK was a HERO and he was during WWII. His service to the men of PT109 showed a courage found in few.

When i was kid growing up i thought Ronald Reagan was cool . He killed all the bad guys, always got the ladies in the end, and so on. Fast foward and then he gets to be President and in my opinion he was the worst son of a bitch we have ever had in that office.No wait a minute Dubya is giving him a run for the money.

 

[WoodPeckr]

Dubya & Ronbo

Dubya has said Ronnie was his 'role model'......
Dubya wanted to out-do Ronnie and probably will in running the US even deeper in debt and corruption than Ronnie ever imagined possible!

The only thing Dubya has in common with Ron, is that they were both 'feeble-of-mind'.