Turner said, “There had been plenty of words of condemnation of suicide bombers, but few on the Israeli attacks in Gaza, in particular the attacks on civilian installations.”
British MP Andrew Turner of the Conservative Party “Those were the tactics of the Nazis in 1939 and 1940 – attacking fleeing civilians from the air,” “Human Rights Watch condemns both sides pretty unequivocally for breaches of international law and of internationally recognized human rights. It condemns Hizbullah for taking hostage and using the soldiers as pawns to negotiate the release of prisoners held in Israel…and it condemns Israel over the lawlessness of its attacks on south Lebanon, for the extraordinarily high level of civilian casualties that followed. asked in response: “Is the honorable gentleman seriously comparing Israel’s defending itself to the genocide of the Holocaust? “What a stupid intervention; of course I’m not comparing it to the Holocaust; if the honourable lady was a little more careful in the way in which she listened to other honourable members instead of parading her prejudices, she would have heard what I said, which was that Israel attacked fleeing civilians; |
