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Showing posts with label gaza. Show all posts
Showing posts with label gaza. Show all posts

Sunday, January 6, 2019

Skunk gas used on Palestinian protestors ... how soon before same is used on protestors in USA, France, UK, elsewhere??????


The vid below, posted by several different users, has seen removal from many You Tube and Twitter accounts.  I won't be surprised if it disappears again and again endlessly.  However, truth has a habit of rising to the surface.



From RT News
Facebook censors & restores video calling Palestine 'Israel's weapons-testing lab'

A video accusing Israel of using Palestinians to test weapons and methods of repression that it later exports around the world was removed from Facebook for several hours, and was only restored after complaints.
“Palestine is Israel’s personal laboratory for testing, refining and showcasing methods and weapons of domination and control,” says journalist Rania Khalek in a video recorded for In The NOW web show, which was published on Friday.
After it was posted on Facebook, however, the video was “erased without explanation.”







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Tuesday, May 22, 2018

The Killing of Gaza ... the movie




Description at video: In their new film "Killing Gaza," journalists Dan Cohen and Max Blumenthal capture the harrowing stories of Palestinians who survived the 2014 Israeli assault, and their struggles to recover and persist under a crippling blockade





Description at video: Max Blumenthal, director and writer of ‘Killing Gaza,’ and Dan Cohen, the documentary’s editor and cinematographer, discuss their new production, which details Israeli war crimes committed against the people of Gaza.

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In our Orwellian world of today, victims are the culprits ...


and especially when it comes to Israel, the victims are all terrorists, even 8-month old infants.

Robert Fisk at InformationClearingHouse
How Long Will We Pretend That The Palestinians Are Non-people?

Monstrous. Frightful. Wicked. It’s strange how the words just run out in the Middle East today. Sixty Palestinians dead. In one day. Two-thousand-four-hundred wounded, more than half by live fire. In one day. The figures are an outrage, a turning away from morality, a disgrace for any army to create.

And we are supposed to believe that the Israeli army is one of “purity of arms”? And we have to ask another question. If it’s 60 Palestinians dead in a day this week, what if it’s 600 next week? Or 6,000 next month? Israel’s bleak excuses – and America’s crude response – raise this very question. If we can now accept a massacre on this scale, how far can our immune system go in the days and weeks and months to come?

Yes, we know all the excuses. Hamas – corrupt, cynical, no “purity” there – was behind the Gaza demonstrations. Some of the protesters were violent, sent burning kites – kites, for heaven’s sake – across the border, others threw stones; though since when has stone-throwing been a capital offence in any civilised country? If an eight-month-old baby dies after tear gas inhalation, what were her parents doing bringing their infant child to the Gaza border? And so it goes on. Why complain about dead Palestinians when we have the Sisis in Egypt and the Assads in Syria and the Saudis in Yemen to contend with? But no, the Palestinians must always be guilty.

The victims are themselves the culprits. This is exactly what the Palestinians have had to endure for 70 years. Remember how they were to blame for their own exodus seven decades ago, because they followed the instructions of radio stations to leave their homes until the Jews of Israel were “driven into the sea”. Only, of course, the radio broadcasts never existed. We still must thank Israel’s “new historians” for proving this. The broadcasts were a myth, part of Israel’s foundational national history invented to ensure that the new state – far from being founded on the ruins of other’s homes – was a land without people....
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Just like Israel, UK too has a wall ...


it's to keep out anything that throws a flashlight on the dark deeds of UK's puppet masters in Israel.

Peter Osborne at MiddleeEastEye
How the UK's wall of silence gives Israel impunity for its actions

Those who shout loudest about Labour Party anti-Semitism have nothing to say about Israel maiming and killing unarmed protesters in Gaza
For the past three months, Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party has been convulsed by accusations that his party is not just a critic of Israel and a harbourer of anti-Semites, but actually hostile to British Jews. The most damaging charge electorally is that British Jews no longer feel at home in Corbyn’s party.

Many of those voices are not people who normally have any worthwhile or informed opinion on the Middle East.

Today I asked some of those voices if they would condemn Israel's use of live ammunition to maim and kill unarmed protesters in the Gaza Strip.

I sent them the following set of questions:

1.   Do you unreservedly condemn the actions of the Israeli army yesterday?

2.   Do you agree with Jeremy Corbyn that international action must be taken in response to the Gaza border killings?

3.   If so, what action do you believe should be taken?

4.   If Israel behaves with impunity, what non-violent alternative do you believe there is to the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement?

5.   If the US vetoes a UN commission of inquiry into the killings, what pressure do you believe can be applied on Israel by the international community?

6.   Do you agree with Israeli Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman when he said in April that “there are no innocents in Gaza”?

7.    Would you qualify Israeli actions yesterday as “measured” and “surgical” (the words of Mark Regev on Radio 4 this morning)?

I sent these questions to the following people and organisations: the British Board of Deputies of British Jews; Labour Friends of Israel; Joan Ryan MP (chair of the LFI) and Chukka Umunna MP. I sent the same questions to Conservative Friends of Israel.
Questions unanswered

In all cases I gave a 4pm deadline. By late afternoon, I had not received an answer to a single one of my questions.......
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Wednesday, May 16, 2018

Listen, Watch and Learn


These two interviews should get some kind of award for Democracy Now. You get a proper glimpse at what's really happening at Israel's borders.




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Sunday, April 1, 2018

Some of my tweets March 26 - 31



















































































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Tuesday, November 10, 2015

Abby Martin's "The Empire File 009"


The world needs more truth tellers like Abby Martin and a whole lot less Bibi-bots.


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Saturday, August 1, 2015

Crystal clear evidence that Israel committed war crimes against Palestinians


One year  ago when Israelis set forth on their almost yearly "mow the lawn" of Gaza,  they did  what they have been doing best with the blessing of Anglo nations, and of late the Sunni dictatorships.... killing Palestinians and destroying any and all infrastructure in Gaza.  As I write this, I just saw tweets on Twitter about two Palestinian teenagers losing their lives in the last 24 hours at the hands of the IDF.  War or no war, the Israeli killing machine never sleeps. The world stands idly by and looks on these atrocities, and shamefully the pro-Israel/anti-Muslim crowd cheers on these crimes against humanity without a qualm. 


 From AlJazeera:
'Strong evidence' of Israeli war crimes in Gaza
In a brutal assault in Rafah during 2014 Gaza war, Israeli forces purposely targeted scores of civilians, report finds.
The Israeli army indiscriminately and deliberately targeted civilians during a brutal 2014 assault known as "Black Friday", according to a new report on last summer's Gaza war.

The joint study by Amnesty International and Forensic Architecture, released on Wednesday, cites "strong evidence" of war crimes and possible crimes against humanity on August 1, 2014, as Israeli forces bombarded residential areas in Rafah in retaliation for the capture of one of its soldiers.

"There is overwhelming evidence that Israeli forces committed disproportionate, or otherwise indiscriminate, attacks which killed scores of civilians in their homes, on the streets and in vehicles and injured many more," notes the report.

"This includes repeatedly firing artillery and other imprecise explosive weapons in densely populated civilian areas… In some cases, there are indications that they directly fired at and killed civilians, including people fleeing.".........
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Saturday, March 21, 2015

Hon. Rob Nicholson, you are wrong. "Moral Clarity" would have been if you had raised your voice when a genocide was going on in Gaza courtesy your friends in Israel


We have no business interfering in Iraq or Syria.  It is the USA's problem which the USA has brought about due to their Israel-lead foreign policies.  Let Canada's bosom pals like Saudi Arabia, UAE and the rest of the Sunni nations along with Israel ... handle the situation there.  Everybody and even their dead uncles know that Canada venturing into conflicts in the Middle East has nothing to do with "moral clarity"  ...  as if the governments of the West cry their eyes out for the unfortunate folks in those regions. 

Nicholson lies about "moral clarity" when heart of hearts he knows just like everybody else, that going into the Middle East conflicts have nothing to do with morality concerns but everything to do with geopolitical changes and most of those reasons are to do with USA and Israel.   
When politicians tell these bold-faced lies, their credibility and the credibility of their party, goes down several notches.  


Kim Mackrael writing at Globe&Mail
Iraq mission a matter of ‘moral clarity’   for Canada, Foreign Affairs Minister says
Extending Canada’s military mission in Iraq is a matter of “moral clarity” that all political parties should support, Foreign Affairs Minister Rob Nicholson says. In a carefully crafted speech to foreign diplomats on Thursday, Mr. Nicholson‎ set out the Conservative government’s case for boosting Canada’s role in the U.S.-led coalition. He argued that Islamic State extremists present a danger to the region and a direct threat to Canada and its allies that could grow quickly if it’s left unchecked.

Mr. Nicholson’s comments lay the groundwork for the government’s proposal to the House of Commons next week, when Prime Minister Stephen Harper will ask MPs to support a plan to expand and extend the current six-month mission. The pre-emptive speech, aimed at about 50 foreign diplomats and delivered before a group of journalists, sought to place pressure on federal opposition parties, who have questioned the scope of Canada’s involvement.

It was the latest salvo in an extended campaign that saw federal ministers hint repeatedly at plans to renew the military commitment. Mr. Harper said Wednesday that he would seek approval for the extension, a revelation that came in the middle of a break week on Parliament Hill, at a time when many MPs had returned to their ridings........
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Friday, March 20, 2015

What happens when a peacekeeping country like Canada has a warmonger take over her reins?



What happens is, we lose the lovely blanket of neutrality we used to have.  Moreover, when the leader of our country can stand by the despicable butcher of Gaza in the slaughtering of  innocent children and their parents ..... it is truly a vomit-inducing moment. The butcher and his party term such almost yearly destruction of life and property as "mowing the lawn"  and to see Canada's entire government, including the Libs AND the NDP standing by Israel in a genocide of the innocent is beyond the pale. Sadly, Canada has lost its moral standing in the world and nothing can ever bring it back.
 
Brian Stewart writing at CBC:
From Afghanistan to Iraq, the perils of overconfidence Canada was way too ambitious when it came to Afghanistan, and we paid a price for it

The first time I visited one of the Canada's big aid projects in Afghanistan I was assured I would see plenty of local gratitude as students at a school we supported were expected to give us a warm welcome.

Well, warm it was — a shower of rocks and ridicule from the boys at the all grades school in Kandahar.

Actually, I would have found the whole scene quite funny had it not been for the obvious embarrassment and rage of the soldiers escorting us as we ducked the incoming rocks, all caught on camera.

This was hardly what our soldiers had come to this war-ravaged country to fight for, and I had the real feeling Canada's much vaunted development mission in Afghanistan wasn't all it was cracked up to be.

As Ottawa gets set to expand our military mission against ISIS in Iraq — likely with the promise of some aid development to follow — it's probably worth considering such past interventions, particularly given the audit just out on how our Afghan aid really fared.

The internal government audit of what has been the largest aid program in Canadian history concluded the $2.2 billion we spent yielded very mixed results, many of them disappointing in the extreme..........
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Friday, February 13, 2015

Several UK MPs standing down from Parliament


In a just and fair world, many of the UK warmongers who allowed the USA's rabid wardogs to waltz them into the illegal war on Iraq would have had to face justice at The Hague.  Handing in their resignations is an easy way out for these criminals.

If Stephen Harper had been the Prime Minister at that time, instead of  Jean Chrétien,  he and his gang would have now been in the same shoes as these UK MPs.... because just as we know for a fact that the Sun rises in the East and sets in the West,  Harper would have committed Canada in the Iraqi fiasco which has given the world what we see today in that region. 

As for the turmoil going on right now, I have a strong feeling that the events unfolding in the Ukraine plus the fact that Harper arrogantly stood behind despicable warlord Netanyahu in the butchering of Palestinians in Gaza, is going to spell  a harrowing defeat for Canada's Conservative party come the next election. 

Furthermore, regardless of the excuses given for his resignation, John Baird, Minister of Foreign Affairs,  is lying through his teeth, through every one of them. At first I thought that maybe he had found his ideal mate and was getting married to a husband but then I thought ... nah ... it's because he has an inkling of  the consequences down the road  .... consequences for the butchery of Gazan children and the coup in the Ukraine, both in which he played a major role alongwith his beady eyed boss.

Today's world believes in diplomacy and not butchery. Politicians are supposed to be diplomats not warmongers and supporters of butchers.

From TelegraphUK:
Why I’m standing down  from Parliament: Jack Straw, MP for Blackburn
I still get shouted at on the tube and called a war criminal - but I have to take the responsibility of Iraq

The Telegraph is speaking to MPs who are standing down at the general election in May. Jack Straw, 68, was Labour MP for Blackburn 1979 – 2015.

ow did you end up in Parliament?

“Coming from a strong Labour family, [I got] the politics bug when I was 13 at the 1955 election, reading one of the leaflets I was having to deliver in the rain and thinking I’d rather be doing what the chap on the leaflet was doing, which was to become the Labour MP for what is now Epping Forest.

“It’s a bit like youngsters wanting to play soccer for England. Given my background, a council maisonette in Essex … the prospect I could go on from there to [Parliament] was really rather distant. But I really wanted to be a Member of Parliament. I had this romantic idea.” .....
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Tuesday, December 30, 2014

Method and Madness of the Israeli racist nation


Vid 1/5

To view other segments of the interview go to Reality Asserts Itself of the The Real News network. 

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Tuesday, December 9, 2014

Shills for Israel never stop talking about Muslim taqqiyah but what about Jewish hasbara?


The meaning of  "taqqiyah" is not lying but explanation, say the Muslims and the meaning of "hasbara"  is also explanation say the Jews ....but both these words mean one thing and one thing only to the rest of us: LIES and HYPOCRISY.

In the first vid below, check out the hasbara master from Israel spouting well-learnt hasbara in spite of documented and fully photographed evidence of Israel's war crimes.
The second vid is from mid July.

 The shills for Israel will often say things like:
"Anti-semites are screaming when Israel is involved but not when Assad or Hamas are doing same"
Idiots don't understand that those who criticize Israel are holding the country to a higher standard than they hold Assad or Hamas.  We have become immune to atrocities from Muslims but we don't expect Israelis to copy Muslims' depravity.  Get that inside your thick skulls, morons. Your hero Netanyahu the warlord is putting the Jewish people, not only in Israel but more so outside Israel, in danger and you are not smart enough to see that?






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Monday, December 8, 2014

Amnesty Intl lets out a teeny-weeny whimper on Israel's war crimes


After five long months, Amnesty Intl. finds its balls, which like all other human rights organizations when it comes to criticizing Israel, have either shrunk to tiny little pebbles or have run away scared stiff right up into their yellow bellies. And, guess what?  Of course, it's only a whimper that comes out from this castrated org, just like the whimpers from all others..... because when Israel does anything wrong, it's very, very forgivable.

Israel's destruction of multistorey buildings: extensive, wanton and unjustified

 Air strikes on landmark buildings at the tail end of the Israeli military’s Operation Protective Edge in Gaza in August 2014 were a deliberate and direct attack on civilian buildings and amount to war crimes, says Amnesty International today. 
“Nothing is immune”: Israel’s destruction of landmark buildings in Gaza provides evidence that attacks on four multistorey buildings during the last four days of the conflict were in contravention of international humanitarian law and calls for them to be independently and impartially investigated. 

 “All the evidence we have shows this large-scale destruction was carried out deliberately and with no military justification,” said Philip Luther, Director of the Middle East and North Africa Programme at Amnesty International. 

 “Both the facts on the ground and statements made by Israeli military spokespeople at the time indicate that the attacks were a collective punishment against the people of Gaza and were designed to destroy their already precarious livelihoods.” 
While the Israeli military warned the residents of the buildings to leave before they destroyed them, scores of people from nearby buildings were injured and hundreds of people were devastated to lose their homes, businesses and belongings.   

 In all four cases, panicked residents hurried to evacuate the buildings and in most cases, were unable to salvage their belongings, including important documents, jewellery and savings. 
The Municipal Commercial Centre in Rafah, which contained a shopping mall, a garage, several offices and a medical clinic, was reduced to a tangled skeleton of iron girders and concrete. Businesses in this building provided the livelihoods for hundreds of families, who are now struggling to make ends meet. 

 Other than the suggestion that one of the destroyed buildings housed a Hamas command centre and of “facilities linked to Palestinian militants” in another, the Israeli authorities have provided no information as to why they levelled four entire buildings. 
“Even if the Israeli authorities had good reason to believe that a part of a building was being used for military purposes, they had an obligation to choose means and methods of attack that would minimize harm to civilians and their property,” says Philip Luther. “The Israeli army have previously conducted air strikes on specific apartments in high-rise buildings without their complete destruction.” ....

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Monday, October 6, 2014

Canadian human rights activist Eva Bartlett tells of her experiences ....


while living in Gaza. This interview was before the recent Israeli war on Gaza.



Part 2  is here. 
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Thursday, October 2, 2014

Former Israeli soldier discloses a load of dirty laundry hidden by the MSM




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Wednesday, October 1, 2014

The Russell Tribunal on Israel's genocidal war crimes in Gaza .... Part Four


Part One is here.   
Part Two here.    
Part Three is here. 

 First vid below has Col. Desmond Travers talking about the munitions used by Israel on Gaza's population.
Second vid is from one of the question periods during the conference.



 From RussellTribunalOnPalestine:
Palestinian witnesses prevented from leaving Gaza to testify by Israeli-Egyptian blockade
Russell Tribunal Co-ordinator Frank Barat said: “The treatment of our witnesses mirrors that of thousands of Palestinians imprisoned in Gaza. The international community holds the key to opening Gaza. Diplomatic pressure including sanctions should be applied until Israel and Egypt end their brutal eight year siege which is a crime against humanity in its’ collective punishment of 1.8 million people.”.........

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Tuesday, September 30, 2014

The Russell Tribunal on Israel's genocidal war crimes in Gaza .... Part Three


Too painful to listen to but definitely an eye-opener.... especially on the oft repeated claim by Israel and Israel's supporters that Hamas uses Gazans as human shields.  The truth is exactly the opposite.  It is the  IDF using Gazan children and civilians as human shields.  

 Below is testimony from Ivan Karakashian, Advocacy Unit Coordinator at Defense for Children International.
He tells of a 16 yr old who was stripped naked by the IDF and used as a human shield for 5 long days. The boy was starved .... no food, no water and no sleep. 
This is one of the most horrifying testimonies given at the Tribunal. The leaders of the Western countries along with their governments, which included even the opposition parties of those countries, stood by Israel while Israel committed these atrocities knowing they had the approval and permission of the West.  The deliberate targeting of civilians cannot be forgiven and should never be overlooked.  

AND, according to the witness below, Dr. Mohammad Abou-Arab, a doctor at the  Al Shifa Hospital, ambulances and medical personnel were deliberately targeted.  He also mentioned something about "Oslo agreement" does not allow shelters to be built in Gaza.  I didn't understand that bit. 

 Following is part of his testimony:
“One ambulance worker shot in the head and bled to death while fellow workers were told if they tried to assist him, they would be killed too. Another worker burned to death in his ambulance after a missile attack against it – his colleague was severely injured in the attack, left with life-altering burn injuries. We are talking about Gaza firefighters, police officers, ambulance workers and other emergency services workers being routinely shot at by snipers and missiles by Israeli military. Anyone who knows anything about Palestinian society knows that no Palestinian would use a child or family as a human shield. Israel however routinely used Palestinians as human shields throughout this operation and those prior.”

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Monday, September 29, 2014

The Russell Tribunal on Israel's genocide and war crimes in Gaza .... Part Two


Part One is here.   

 Even though the Russell Tribunal, at this point in world history, does not carry the kind of weight that the The Hague tribunal does, everything that is stated in these sessions will go down in world history and when there's a shift in world powers (that's going to happen within a decade or less) the Russell Tribunal's rulings will become as powerful and as "legal" as any other powerful instrument of law.

 Part Two:
Deliberate hits at factories and manufacturing plants in Gaza were well planned to destroy the Gazan economy, and yet the Israelis and the supporters of Israel in the West, blame the Palestinians for not improving their economy and their standard of living. The doublespeak and the doublethink from the Jewish Israelis and their supporters here in the West is straight out of Orwell's 1984.

220 factories were deliberately hit and destroyed by Israel, the worst nation on Earth. In my eyes, Saudi Arabia has fallen to 2nd worst nation,  Israel has taken the top spot.  

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Sunday, September 28, 2014

The Testimonies and the Findings of the Russell Tribunal on Israel's war crimes in Gaza


Part One:
I have posted here in this Part One, only the few of the vids that I have already seen of the people called to give witness before the Russell Tribunal. According to one of the witnesses, Dr. Mads Gilbert,  75% of those who wanted to attend the Russell Tribunal held in Brussels were blocked by Israel from leaving the open air prison Gaza. 

From RussellTribunalonPalestine:
Russell Tribunal finds evidence of incitement to genocide crimes against humanity in Gaza

September 25th 2014
For Immediate Release

 The Russell Tribunal on Palestine’s Emergency Session on Israel’s Operation Protective Edge held yesterday in Brussels has found evidence of war crimes, crimes against humanity, crimes of murder, extermination and persecution and also incitement to genocide.

 The Jury [1] reported: ‘The cumulative effect of the long-standing regime of collective punishment in Gaza appears to inflict conditions of life calculated to bring about the incremental destruction of the Palestinians as a group in Gaza.’

‘The Tribunal emphasises the potential for a regime of persecution to become genocidal in effect, In light of the clear escalation in the physical and rhetorical violence deployed in respect of Gaza in the summer of 2014, the Tribunal emphasises the obligation of all state parties to the 1948 Genocide Convention ‘to take such action under the Charter of the United Nations as they consider appropriate for the prevention and suppression of acts of genocide.’

The Jury heard evidence from eyewitnesses to Israeli attacks during the Gaza war 2014 including journalists Mohammed Omer, Max Blumenthal, David Sheen, Martin Lejeune, Eran Efrati and Paul Mason, as well as surgeons Mads Gilbert, Mohammed Abou Arab, Genocide Expert Paul Behrens, Col Desmond Travers and Ivan Karakashian, Head of Advocacy and Defence for Children International.

 In terms of the crime of incitement to genocide, the tribunal received evidence ‘demonstrating a vitriolic upswing in racist rhetoric and incitement’ during the summer of 2014. ‘The evidence shows that such incitement manifested across many levels of Israeli society, on both social and traditional media, from football fans, police officers, media commentators, religious leaders, legislators, and government ministers.’
The Tribunal also found evidence of the following war crimes:

Willful killing

 Extensive destruction of property not justified by military necessity

 Intentionally directing attacks against a civilian population and civilian objects

 Disproportionate use of force

 Attacks against buildings dedicated to religion and education

 The use of Palestinians as human shields

 Employing weapons, projectiles, and material and methods of warfare which are of a nature to cause superfluous injury or unnecessary suffering which are inherently indiscriminate

 The use of violence to spread terror among the civilian population

The Tribunal further stated: ‘It is recognised that in a situation where patterns of crimes against humanity are perpetrated with impunity, and where direct and public incitement to genocide is manifest throughout society, it is very conceivable that individuals or the state may choose to exploit the conditions in order to perpetrate the crime of genocide...........

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