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‧人權新知   ‧世界人權宣言   ‧高雄國際人權宣言   ‧人權影音資料館藏   ‧人權圖書資料館藏   Tragedy opens doors to solving Palestinian crisis Egypt's collusion in the Israeli blockade of Gaza ended this week. Israel's policy is morally in tatters and it has now no choice but to follow. The world was appalled by the armed assault on the Free Gaza flotilla that ended with the killing of at least nine people and the shooting in the legs of many others. Murder isn't too harsh a term for what happened. The boarding of the flotilla trying to break the siege of Gaza changes the playbook for everyone. It's a tragedy but it's also an opportunity for the sane players on both sides. The ultra-right-wing Israeli Government is on the back foot and those who want a solution for the Palestinian tragedy have the first real opportunity in a long while. No amount of propaganda by the Israeli Government's spin machine can cover up that they carried out an act of piracy in international waters and murdered those who resisted. The Israeli Defence Force's attempts to show themselves as victims with film footage of them being attacked with sticks, marbles and other homemade weaponry is pathetic. Deleting the parts showing their soldiers shooting people should make even the most hardened cynics cringe. Given the Israelis electronically blocked the transmissions from the passengers' phones and filming equipment and presumably confiscated any evidence from their prisoners, I'm inclined to believe the passengers who claimed the soldiers fired on them before they boarded. The extent of the atrocity is self-evident. Imagine, instead of the French saboteurs inadvertently killing Fernando Pereira when they blew up the Rainbow Warrior protest ship in 1985, they had instead boarded our nuclear-free peace flotilla approaching Mururoa and shot the crew for resisting. The flotilla organisers' intention was to bring to world attention the barbarism of walling up one-and-a-half million Palestinians as a collective punishment for electing a Hamas Government. Israel's hope that somehow the populace would rise up against Hamas has only entrenched their leadership. This week's clumsy piracy shows Israel has learned nothing from its botch-ups over its cruel blanket bombing Gaza and the invasion of Lebanon. The effect of the flotilla has exceeded all expectations. Neither side would have wanted anyone killed but their deaths will turn world opinion against Israel. (2010-06-06 / nzherald.co.nz)     2009 2010 2011 2012   6/6：Tragedy opens doors to solving Palestinian crisis (nzherald.co.nz) 6/6：Churches seek action on worsening human rights situation in Congo (ekklesia) 6/8：Report: Hospitals lacking protection for gays and lesbians (CNN) 6/8：Securitymen too have human rights: NHRC chief (Hindustan Times) 6/9：Obama extends sanctions against Belarus（RIA Novosti) 6/9：US slams ’political repression’ by Sudanese authorities（WASHINGTON) 6/10：UK judge defends Human Rights Act (LEGALBRIEF TODAY) 6/10：Tenor's story acclaimed by anti-abortion campaigners (guardian.co.uk) 6/11：Obama urges support for Iranian 'freedom'(AFP) 6/11：France should press Putin on rights, watchdog says(The Associated Press)
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