{"id":1418,"date":"2006-05-10T09:40:10","date_gmt":"2006-05-10T13:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/wordpress\/?p=1418"},"modified":"2006-05-10T09:40:10","modified_gmt":"2006-05-10T13:40:10","slug":"the-eu-and-un-curtsey-for-war-criminals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=1418","title":{"rendered":"The EU and UN Curtsey for War Criminals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.google.com\/news?hl=en&#038;ned=us&#038;q=Hamas+Quartet&#038;btnG=Search+News\">The headlines go<\/a> that an agreement has been reached to give aid directly to the Palestinians, <a href=\"http:\/\/electronicintifada.net\/v2\/article4696.shtml\">who are dying<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/israel\/Story\/0,,1771404,00.html\">as I type this<\/a>, but the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.karmalised.com\/archives\/001402.html\">U.S.-led<\/a> campaign to punish the Palestinians for democratically electing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.karmalised.com\/archives\/001352.html\">Hamas<\/a> must figure out how to transparently bypass the new government before the Palestinians will get any actual relief.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, the Israeli company that is <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20060510\/ap_on_re_mi_ea\/israel_palestinians;_ylt=AtaABudPwOmF_RBbPHgjJm6s0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA2Z2szazkxBHNlYwN0bQ--\">the sole provider of fuel to the West Bank and Gaza<\/a> has cut-off supplies due to debts owed!<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Salame said the Palestinians owe about $26 million to Dor, but he accused the company of taking a political decision aimed at punishing the Hamas-led Palestinian government.<\/p>\n<p>Asaf Shariv, a top Olmert aide, said Israel would not pay the debt with tax revenues it collects for the Palestinian Authority, but has been holding in escrow since the Hamas-dominated parliament was sworn in three months ago.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The UN and EU are impotent hypocrites that can&#8217;t even bring themselves to give the Palestinians the milk that is dribbling from their fat, greasy chins.  Where do they get the nerve to deny the Palestinians what is theirs, not only the taxes that Israel is withholding, but what is provided an occupied people according to international law?<\/p>\n<p>Plenty of shame to go around but the lion&#8217;s share goes to Israel and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.karmalised.com\/archives\/001350.html\">henchman in chief<\/a>, the United States, who seem determined to pursue the commission of genocide and war crimes as their sole international right.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/printedition\/california\/la-oe-taamallah6may06,1,5490483.story?coll=la-headlines-pe-california\"><strong>Palestinian pain, one kid at a time<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The headlines go that an agreement has been reached to give aid directly to the Palestinians, who are dying as I type this, but the U.S.-led campaign to punish the Palestinians for democratically electing Hamas must figure out how to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=1418\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-mS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}