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The International Criminal Court's (ICC) prosecutor's office said on Friday it was considering the legal implications after the UN General Assembly's overwhelming vote to recognize the Palestinian Authority as a non-member state. "The Office of the Prosecutor takes note of the decision" and will now "consider the legal implications of this resolution," it said in a statement sent to AFP but declined to elaborate. In 2009, the PA asked the ICC prosecutor's office to investigate alleged war crimes committed by the IDF during Operation Cast Lead in Gaza. However, only a state can launch such a request under international law,...

Haifa University has canceled a student event scheduled for Wednesday and which planned to mark the third anniversary of the start of the IDF’s Operation Cast Lead in Gaza. Channel 10 News reported on Tuesday that the reason for the cancellation is the fact that the event’s organizers termed the operation a “massacre” and a “fascist operation” in the invitations it sent out. The cancellation came after Channel 10 publicized on its website the invitation to the event, which was planned by a student group identified with MK Dov Henin’s Communist-based Hadash party. The invitation, which was distributed around campus,...

The Israel Defense Forces artillery corps revealed the previously classified Tamuz missile for the first time Monday, which was used in the Second Lebanon War and Operation Cast Lead in Gaza. The Tamuz missile has a range of up to 25 kilometers and is equipped with an electro-optic sensor that allows its operators to guide it to its target by watching it on a screen while it hovers to its target.

Hamas gunmen used Palestinian children as human shields, and established command centers and Kassam launch pads in and near more than 100 mosques and hospitals during Operation Cast Lead in the Gaza Strip last year, according to a new Israeli report being released on Monday that aims to counter criticism of the IDF. The detailed 500-page report, obtained exclusively by The Jerusalem Post, was written by the Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center (Malam), a small research group led by Col. (res.) Reuven Erlich, a former Military Intelligence officer who works closely with the army. The IDF and the Shin Bet...

A joint military exercise that Israel, the US, NATO, Turkey and Italy were scheduled to conduct this week, was taken off the table because of American disappointment with Ankara's decision to withdraw from the maneuver due to Israel's planned participation, Israeli defense officials said Sunday. Turkey informed Israel of the cancellation of the Anatolian Eagle exercise last week, saying this was because the planes that Israel was going to send likely bombed Hamas targets during Operation Cast Lead in the Gaza Strip earlier this year. According to officials quoted by Israel Radio, the cancellation of the exercise came after both...

Israel recently finished the first phase of its fact-finding on the smack-down of Hamas. They produced a great video summarizing the use of civilians by Hamas. Watch it here. Here's an expansive summary of their investigation.

Naming Israel's incursion into Gaza Operation Cast Lead was a public relations faux pas, a top government spokesman said on Wednesday. "I didn't like the name," Mark Regev, the prime minister's spokesman for international media, told a crowd of some 150 listeners in English. "From a public relations point of view, it was a mistake." Regev, who immigrated to Israel from Australia in 1982, said at the Modi'in municipality, "The Israel Defense Forces chooses its names by some computer or by some system which I don't understand. And the truth is that the Hebrew name Oferet Yetzuka [referring to Hanukkah...

Here we go again, Fake "war crimes" by Israel bashers exposed - damning effect still onReports of IDF Crimes: Fiction Based on Rumors - Defense/Middle ...Claims that IDF soldiers deliberately killed civilians during Operation Cast Lead were based in hearsay, a military investigation has concluded. The two soldiers who first reported the alleged incidents several weeks ago had not seen the incidents themselves, and had no personal knowledge to support the allegations...  B'Tselem, accused the IDF... ... http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/130684Then again, it (false accusations by the infamous  un-reliable radical political group: B'tzelem) reminds us all the UN's such loud & harsh "accusation"...

Following claims made by graduates of the Rabin Pre-military Academy at a conference last month that IDF soldiers deliberately shot and killed Gaza civilians during Operation Cast Lead, the army completed its official investigation into the accounts on Monday and concluded that they were categorically false and based on rumors. On Wednesday, the Jerusalem Post, citing an IDF source, had reported that the allegations were proven to be untrue in official army investigations.

"I'm not a war criminal! I'm not a Nazi!" Seated in a Jerusalem café, Yotam's tense voice and tight movements contrast sharply with the suave, cool surroundings. He looks around and over his shoulder frequently, admitting that he's afraid that someone might overhear him or recognize him. Throughout the interview, he takes long sips of water from a tall, iced glass in an effort to maintain his composure. He insists that he not be identified in any way. Yotam is not his real name. During Operation Cast Lead, Yotam, served as a battalion commander of a combat unit. He had...

'Improved' Grad Rocket on Ashkelon - Shock Victims and Damage An "improved" Grad rocket struck an Ashkelon school Saturday morning, returning Israel to the days before the Cast Lead operation that was carried out to end the terrorist strikes. The rocket caused...( read more at)

Hamas’ Lies about Gaza Fatalities Unmasked It’s now official: the casualty counts you heard for the Palestinians during the recent war in Gaza were wild fabrications put out by the Hamas terrorist organization and its allies, and eagerly accepted and circulated by Western media. Listen to this PODCAST

Four weeks after the cessation of Operation Cast Lead, the IDF finally opened its dossier on Palestinian fatalities on Sunday for the first time, and presented to The Jerusalem Post an overview utterly at odds with the Palestinian figures that have hitherto formed the basis for assessing the conflict. While the Palestinian Center for Human Rights, whose death toll figures have been widely cited, reports that 895 Gaza civilians were killed in the fighting, amounting to more than two-thirds of all fatalities, the IDF figures shown to the Post on Sunday put the civilian death toll at no higher than...

The 'Qassam Kindergarten' Jihad   'Palestinians' Islamic Hamas, "loves" children, well, in their special 'death cult' type of way anyway.   You already know how they love their own children... to die for propaganda, and make every effort in succeeding in - unfortunately.   But there are children under the "wings of Jihadi love" of Hamas, the Israeli children in schools, in kindergartens, they are "favorites", favorites in Hamas' targets that is, planning the time/place when/where they go to school, thank God for so many miracles where children weren't harmed.   Call it 'Qassam kindergarten', 'Kindergarten Jihad', or plain 'Jihad...

Palestinian Muslims war crimes and anti Israel bias & Jihadists-appeasement among "human rights" NGO groups Hamas war crimes? Obviously (b'tzelem). So blame the victim http://www.spectator.co.uk/melaniephillips/3327751/hamas-war-crimes-obviously-so-blame-the-victim.thtmlIt’s because the war crimes by Hamas are too obvious. 'No need to probe Hamas because its war crimes are so blatant' Jerusalem Post http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1233304687815&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFullNew Gaza study: Extreme NGO anti-Israel bias Ynetnews http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3667108,00.html

Disgraceful Jimmy Carter LIES openly on CNN's Larry King and no one refutes him?   Sat. (Feb. 7, 2009) night, Jimmy Carter said: 'Israel it could have responded to the rocket attacks without firing on churches what churches in Islamic Gaza is he talking about???) and on Mosques'.   A short while after that Larry confronted the worst-ex-president "You said earlier that Israel fired on mosques and on schools, what was Israel supposed to do as they responded to where the FIRING CAME FROM"?   Jimmy, I don't known I wasn't there, I only know that the UN sad that Israel...

What good does it do now, after UN's criminal tarnishing Innocent Israel damage is already done?UN retracts claim over Gaza school attack Feb 4, 2009 ... RTÉ news brings you the latest Irish news, world news, international news and up to the minute reports on breaking Irish news stories and ...http://www.rte.ie/news/2009/0204/gaza.html UN retracts claim deadly Israeli strike hit Gaza school - ABC News ... Feb 5, 2009 ... The United Nations has retracted a claim that an Israeli strike which killed more than 40 people in northern Gaza city of Jabaliya last ...http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/02/05/2482698.htm  UN retracts claim deadly Israeli strike hit...

 Israel VS Genocide Israel VS Islamo Arab campaign of Genocide.Attempted Genocide From the Start [1] Israel has always faced (radical) Arab genocide, To fully understand current conflicts in the Middle East, history must be recalled. [2] It exist a common phrase: 'If the Jews would just lay down their weapons there would be no more Israel' [3]. Table of Contents 1 1920s 2 1967 3 Current 4 Radical Islam (as a whole) 4.1 Al Qaeda 4.2 Hezbollah 4.3 The Muslim Brotherhood 4.4 Ahmadinejad 5 Mainstream [Palestinian & other] Arabs 5.1 Genocidal Agenda under 'Pro Palestinian' propaganda 1920s The first Arab...

Israel: Suicide bombing of Egged bus no. 19 in JerusalemA reexamination of body parts brought to the Abu Kabir forensic institute brought the death toll in the Jerusalem suicide bombing to 11. In addition, over 50 people were wounded, 13 of them seriously, in a suicide bombing of an Egged bus no. 19 shortly before 9:00 AM at the corner of Gaza and Arlozorov streets in Jerusalem. The bus starts its route at Hadassah Ein Kerem and makes its way through the center of Jerusalem to Hadassah Hospital and the Hebrew University on Mount Scopus.The bomber was in the back...

Several things are happening in Israel right now. Rather than update the Operation Cast Lead post or the Israeli Elections post, we're going to summarize the activities here. Read those posts for background. Summary: Mitchell's plan is floundering. Bibi will win the election. Cast Lead isn't over - Iran is gearing up to help Hamas do it right in Round 2.