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Monday, December 11, 2006

Israel to Tutu: Get out of Town !

The Olmert Government had an accident Today, they actually did something right. They refused to authorize Desmond Tutu's "Kangaroo Court" investigating the incident at Beit Hanoun. (for more about Tutu's mission click here)

From Reuters: UN mission, set to depart to region Sunday, called off due to Israel's refusal to authorize trip, spokeswoman says. Olmert's office responds: 'Commission was sent on premise that Israel targets civilians, did not take into account rocket fire from Gaza'

A UN mission to be led by South Africa's Desmond Tutu to probe last month's deaths of 19 civilians in Gaza under Israeli shelling has been called off because Israel did not authorize the trip, a spokeswoman said on Monday.

In response to UN decision to investigate circumstances surrounding Beit Hanoun incident several days ago, Israel's foreign ministry states move rewarding to terrorism, hindering to those fighting it. The Nobel Peace laureate, who was asked to head the team by the Geneva-based Human Rights Council, had other engagements and could not wait any longer for Israeli permission, she added "It has been cancelled. We were supposed to go yesterday (Sunday)," Spokeswoman Sonia Bakar said, "Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's spokeswoman Miri Eisin said Israel had investigated and acknowledged its mistakes in the incident, seeing no role for the UN mission.

"The commission was sent on the premise that Israel targets civilians and it did not take into account the daily rocket fire targeting Israeli civilians."

2 comments:

Michael said...

Wow! Even Olmert can get something right. Maybe there is hope for Israel, despite him.

Unknown said...

Even a Broken Clock is right 2x a day