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Diplomats say the U.S., Canada and Australia are helping Israel and exerting pressure on Switzerland and other states to thwart the conference.

HAARETZ

Israel and the United States are trying to dissuade the nearly 200 states that are party to the Fourth Geneva Convention from convening a special session in mid-December to address conditions in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem, Israeli and Western diplomats told Haaretz Wednesday.

Government officials believe that convention sponsor Switzerland has come under strong pressure from the Palestinians and Arab states, and is expected to issue invitations to the conference within days.

In early April, following Israel’s refusal to free the last scheduled group of Palestinian prisoners, and its announcement that it would build 700 homes in East Jerusalem, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas decided to sign, in the Palestinian state’s name, on 15 international conventions and ask to join them. One of them was the Fourth Geneva Convention, which deals with protecting the civilian population in fighting areas or occupied territories.

This move brought to a head the crisis that led to the collapse of U.S. efforts to extend the talks between Israel and the Palestinians. A few weeks later the Palestinians and Arab League asked Switzerland officially to call a conference of the convention signatories to discuss the Israeli occupation in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, as well as the damage Israel caused civilians in Gaza.

So far four attempts have been made to convene the Fourth Geneva Convention – all of them in regard to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The last attempt was made in 2009 after Operation Cast Lead in the Gaza Strip.

However, after consultations of the Swiss Foreign Ministry at the time, it was decided there wasn’t sufficiently broad international support for holding the conference. In 2001, on the other hand, after the outbreak of the second intifada, such a conference was held. Israel and the United States boycotted it.

Recently Swiss diplomats said their country, as the convention’s sponsor, couldn’t decide by itself on calling the conference again. So Switzerland began consultations with the other signatory states to see if enough of them were interested in holding the conference.

Switzerland distributed to all the signatories a proposal to hold the conference in Geneva in mid-December. The Swiss made it clear they wanted the event to focus on the upholding of international humanitarian law.

The Swiss proposal is for a three-hour conference at an ambassadorial level, with few speeches and no media coverage except for a statement to the press to be released at the end.

“We made it clear we didn’t want a political event or debate club, or a conference that would blame or criticize one of the sides,” a Swiss diplomat said.

Israel objected to the move strongly despite the low profile Switzerland suggested. Senior Israeli diplomats went to Bern and Geneva a few times in a bid to persuade the Swiss Foreign Ministry not to hold the conference, saying Israel would boycott it if it were held.

“They told us that holding the conference would help a one-sided Palestinian move intended to make Israel look bad and attack it in an international forum,” the Swiss diplomat said.

The conference cannot make binding decisions, but could increase international criticism of Israel’s policy in the territories, especially regarding the settlements.

The Israeli fear over the conference increased after Jerusalem received an updated draft of its proposed contents. Unlike previous versions, the updated draft was phrased in a very political way, mentioning Israel by name and referring in detail to issues like the West Bank settlements.

Israeli and Swiss diplomats said the United States, Canada and Australia were helping Israel and exerting pressure on Switzerland and other states to thwart the conference. Israeli diplomats said that despite the fact that the Americans have yet to make a formal decision on the matter, U.S. officials have told Switzerland they would boycott the conference if it is held. Canada has conveyed a similar message to Switzerland.

Speaking with Haaretz on Wednesday, Edgar Vasquez, a spokesman for the U.S. State Department, affirmed the American disapproval. “We strongly oppose the convening of the High Contracting Parties to the Geneva Conventions and have made our opposition unmistakably clear,” he said.

Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman held telephone conversations in the last few days with colleagues worldwide, asking them to object to the conference and declare they would boycott it if it is held. Also, Israeli ambassadors in several Western states have been instructed to try to obtain a commitment from those states to boycott the conference.

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  1. OFF TOPIC
    A 1930s cartoon (below) shows that the National Socialists faced the same Jewish evil that plagues us today. Here the evil is shown being sprayed over Germany as “giftgas” (poison gas).
    https://quatloosx.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/giftgas.jpg
    On the left, the words “speculation” and “pacifism” need special translation…
    “Speculation” is quintessentially Jewish. It connotes all forms of shady gambling and extortion. Market-rigging, price-fixing, financial fraud, bankster theft, the creating and popping of financial bubbles for personal enrichment, and so on. Anything other than the honest earning of money by providing some good or service of value to society.
    “Pacifism” referred to people who loudly and self-righteously insisted that Germany should continue to let France and England suck Germany’s blood in the form of endless “war reparations.” When Germany lost World War One, Germany was taken as a slave by France and England, and was made to pay “war reparations”…forever. “Pacifism” also meant calls for Germans to “turn the other cheek” to every violent provocation by Stalin’s agents and allies.
    NOTE…
    This kind of cartoon never appeared in the official National Socialist newspaper, the People’s Observer. Rather, such cartoons appeared in the private tabloid “Der Stürmer” (“The Attacker”) published by Julius Streicher. The cartoons so enraged Jews (because the cartoons showed the truth) that the Jews hanged Julius Streicher shortly after the war.
    One government newspaper, Der Angriff (“The Attack”) was anti-Jew on occasion, but it was mainly anti-Allies.
    Another government newspaper, “The Reich” was not anti-Jew. It reported on war news, and was popular with German troops. SS officers were taught about the Jewish plague in special schools, but regular German troops were not. The latter had little or no opinion about Jews one way or the other.
    The SS had their own weekly newspaper called the “The Black Corps.” It occasionally exposed the Jewish plague, including Freemasonry, and sometimes criticized the Vatican for its general hostility to National Socialism. It contained foreign news reports, analyses of threats, and theoretical essays on Nazi policies. It praised “family values” and motherly women, while criticizing militant man-bashing feminism in foreign nations. It also opposed oligarchs, and it spoke of the need to break up aristocratic estates.
    The Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung (“German General Newspaper”) was a regular newspaper, and was not anti-Jew.
    The Arbeitertum (“Workers’ World”) was aimed at workers, and discussed labor issues.
    MY POINT is that German culture was not as anti-Jew as today’s people believe. Among regular Germans, most (but not all) were as clueless about the plague as are most regular Americans today. Hitler himself was mainly concerned with running a country and winning a world war. For him Jews were an important issue, but not a large or pressing issue. All Jewish lies about Hitler are caricatures.
    One final thought: The Nazis and the early Zionists agreed that the “Final Solution to the Jewish Question” was to encourage Jews to leave Europe and form their own country somewhere.
    The early Zionists recognized that there had always been problems between Jews and non-Jews, and that Jews were to blame for this as much as anyone else. The early Zionists said, “Rather than us Jews being run out of one country after another, we need our own country where all Jews should gather.” The Nazis agreed with this, but the actual establishment of such a country would have to wait until after the war.
    In the meantime, some Jews (not all) were put into labor camps for their protection, and so they could be useful to the war effort. They were safe from Allied bombing, and they had their own cinemas, drama theatres, medical clinics, brothels, banks, stores, schools, swimming pools, and cafeterias. And because they were expected to work in factories for the war effort, they were given a higher daily ration of food than was the mainstream German population outside the camps. When camp provisions ran short, the Jews were sent outside to trade for food or medical provisions, etc. and bring them back to the camps. Not a single Jew was ever gassed at any time.
    https://quatloosx.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/jewish_grave.jpg

  2. From Canada, this small voice apologizes to the world for our being on the wrong side of history yet again. The residents of an occupied country do not have much of a voice in the political discourse of their nation as relates to the occupiers.

  3. I enjoyed reading the comment, and the analysis of the cartoon, and learning about the prevailing views on the Jews in Germany at that time in history. One sentence however, was I felt, in critical error. You posted the following two sentences… “Hitler himself was mainly concerned with running a country and winning a world war. For him Jews were an important issue, but not a large or pressing issue.”. This is pure fallacy. The war, and all subsequent wars are/were Jewish wars. Jewry, then as now, were the war. Germany was assailed by all the tentacles of Jewry, Masonry, Judeo-Christianity, Bolshevism, Capital. All the forces arrayed against Germany were power blocks controlled and conceived by Jewry, all had their genesis in the depravity of a supremacist Jewish brain. It is and was impossible to separate the war from the “Jews”. Hitler did not have the luxury to say, well I shall win the war and then see to the Jews. The Jews were the war, and remain the fathers of all war.

  4. @D. Hart….Pure fallacy? Much depends on your definition of “Jews.” If you claim that Jews cause and mastermind all wars, then I disagree with you. But if by “Jews” you refer to the Satanic spirit, wherever it occurs, then I agree with you. In the East, Hitler faced Stalin, who had an ambivalent relationship with Jews, now elevating them, now purging them. The Jew Nikolai Ivanovich Yezhov was a Soviet secret police official under Stalin, and he had thousands of people liquidated (perhaps tens of thousands) until Stalin liquidated Yezhov in 1940.
    The point is, Jews are a symptom of social decay, not a cause. At least, not initially. When a people become cruel, degenerate, greedy and selfish, they get Jews, who invade like rats, and accelerate the decay. The penalty for a society becoming Jewish in spirit is to get Jews in physical form.
    If you say that people tend to be good until they are invaded by Jews, then I disagree. Jews cannot invade a society until the society has already corrupted itself. After the invasion, Jews accelerate the corruption.
    If you want to say that the Allies were Jewish in spirit, I agree, but the Allies chose to let Jews have power. Jews only have power that people choose to give to them.
    Anyway, when I said that “For Hitler Jews were an important issue, but not a large or pressing issue,” I was referring to the actual Jews in Germany, who were brought under control. If you want to say that the Allies were collectively “Jewish,” then I strongly agree. And I agree that the battle was between good (Nazi Germany) and evil (the Judeo-centric Allies). But I don’t think that Jews alone were to blame. They had voluntary, willing help.
    Along these lines, reader “lasilencia” included a post titled “Don’t fall into the Jewish trap.”
    http://theuglytruth.wordpress.com/2014/11/27/dont-fall-into-spains-jew-trap/#comments
    Reader “MJ” responded to that post by including a video titled, “What Happened to Muslim Spain.”
    In that video a narrator says, “Today we Muslims whine about everything. We blame everyone but ourselves. We blame the Christians, the Jews – everyone but ourselves.”
    That’s the same point I am making. For me, “Jews” are everyone who thinks like a Jew. Selfish, greedy, hypocritical, perverse, murderous people are Jews, whether they call themselves Jews or not. When they become corrupt, they have only themselves to blame when Jews invade.
    In sum, if you say that actual Jews are behind it all, then I disagree. But if you say that the spirit of evil and selfishness (which includes Jews) is behind it all, then I agree. And in that sense, everything Hitler did was a fight against “the Jew.”

  5. Hmmm
    Clearly if as Israel continues to claim it has done no wrong it would welcome any investigation that (assuming they are not guilty) would exonerate them right? And Just as clearly the only reason they would be so frantic in their efforts to stop such an investigation is the knowledge that they would be found guilty by the UN and International courts BECAUSE ISRAEL IS GUILTY OF WAR CRIMES, CRIMES AGAINST HUMAINTY, GENOCIDE AND APARTHEID AGAINST THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE.
    f as they say they have nothing to hide, why are they trying to hard to keep it hidden?

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