I'm sorry that you didn't understand what I posted to you about the GC and the US Government.  You appear to misunderstand the place of treaties in US law:  they are *granted* a status of assumed equality with the Constitution - but they can never be held ABOVE the Constitution.

The real topic however, is Abbas and his admission that he has ordered his people to murder Israeli civilians.  And children. 

Apr 13, 2012 -- 10:39AM, rocketjsquirell wrote:

Abbas admits sending terrorists to kill Israelis

Abbas: "I demand [the release of] prisoners because they are human beings, who did what we, we, ordered them to do. We, the Authority. They should not be punished while we sit at one table negotiating. This is war. One (Israel) ordered a soldier to kill, and I ordered my son, brother, or others, to carry out the duty of resistance (euphemism for terror). This person killed and the other person killed. So why say this person's hands are stained with blood, and [he] must be kept in prison?"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNf2SVRfpYk

I think this should end any arguments that the PA is not a terrorist organization and I think it puts the lie to the idea that the PA is only invloved in "peaceful resistence"  Don't you?

rocket,

We are relying on a  translation by an Israeli propaganda site, so none of us can know if Abbas is saying what we are told he is saying in this video. The parenthetical words raise unanswered questions, it looks like words were added to what he was saying, as people do not normally speak in parentheticals.  But assuming he is basically saying what is written as a translation, with the unanswered questions mysteries we can not solve,  I think there is a lot of truth in his words. In this Israeli Occupation of Palestine, the Occupiers kill with impunity and the Occupied who kill resisting Occupation are labelled terrorists. I call that hypocrisy. Btselem keeps up with fatalaties, and they tell us all that most of the people being killed in this conflict are Palestinians and most of them are being killed by Israel. For example, in the military operation Cast Lead Israel  killed 759 Palestinians who were not participants in the hostilities, these were civilains unlawfully killed/murdered by Israel under intl law.

Over 8000 Palestinians have been killed by Israel since the First Intifada began, all documented on Btselem. Over half were civilians unlawfully killed. In the past 10 years, Palestinian rockets have only killed a few dozen Israelis. Suicide bombings, which began as a response to Israel's targeted assassinations,  stopped years ago. It is Israel doing most of the unlawful killing/murdering, while carrying out acts of terror against civilians in Palestine. And it is Israel's very own Israeli  human rights group, Btselem, who documents all of this, shouting to the world, crying out to God,  the truth about Israel's Occupation in Palestine.

www.btselem.org/statistics

Sherri

Quote:

"Sionce the Israelis are not sending groups of people into PA-controlled territory to murder children in front of their parents like the PA "fighters" have done - Israel has no such activities to "admit" to."

No 'such' but there are many other 'activities'.

From Press TV -

About 500 patients in Gaza have died due to lack of medicines or their inability to seek treatment outside the blockaded Palestinian territory since 2006, our correspondent reports.
On April 7, Hamas Health Minister Basem Naeem called on the international community to “stop sitting idle and to intervene to help end the suffering of the people of Gaza.”

The Israeli regime persistently denies over 1.5 million people in the besieged enclave their basic rights, including the freedom of movement and the right to decent living, work, health and education.

It also appears Israel is a democracy only as far as you support Israel, you are not welcome if you support Palestinians.

Dos, Press TV = Iranian propaganda.

Of course, if Russians are your heroes, then Press TV is a good choice.

But if one wishes any kind of accuracy, not so good.

Since Iran has been fingered several times as being a 'player' in the same game as Abbas and purportedly Israel - they have credibility here WHY?

And, speaking of MISQUOTING, Arutz Sheva's report actually reads:

"The popular YouTube site has shut down the Palestinian Media Watch account due to the venom shown on PA videos the watchdog group exposes."

IOW, the 'hate speech' is within the PA TV videos, and the translation is accurate.  Thanks for bringing the latest in sleazy tactics from HAMAS propagandists and apologists to our attention, Sherri!