UN Urges Israel to Protect Freedom of Assembly After Video Emerges of Journalist Funeral
Samizdat – 13.05.2022
The United Nations is aware of “shocking” video showing violence during the funeral of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh in Jerusalem and calls on the Israeli government to protect freedom of peaceful assembly, UN spokesperson Farhan Haq said on Friday.
“We have just seen the video coming from this, and this is very shocking to us,” Haq said in a press briefing.
Israeli forces fatally shot reporter Shireen Abu Akleh and injured another employee as the two were covering the government forces’ raids in the West Bank city of Jenin, media reported on Wednesday.
The video showed violence erupting during Akleh’s funeral in Jerusalem when the Israeli police charged the crowd carrying her coffin.
Haq said the United Nations will try to gather more information about the incident.
“Clearly, as in all cases, we want to make sure that the basic rights to freedom of assembly, and of course the right to freedom of peaceful demonstration are protected and upheld,” he said.
No country can attack or kill journalists and those who are responsible for such actions need to be brought to account, Haq added.
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By Adam Garrie | The Duran | September 14, 2017
In the 1990s, US officials, all of whom would go on to serve in the George W. Bush White House, authored two short, but deeply important policy documents that have subsequently been the guiding force behind every major US foreign policy decision taken since the year 2000 and particularly since 9/11.
These documents include the Defense Planning Guidance for the 1994–99 fiscal years (more commonly known as the Wolfowitz Doctrine). This document, as the name implies was authored by George W. Bush’s deeply influential Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz as well as I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, who served as an advisor to former US Vice President Dick Cheney.
The other major document, A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm, from 1996 was authored by former Chairman of the Defense Policy Board Advisory Committee in the administration of George W. Bush, Richard Norman Perle.
Both documents provide a simplistic but highly unambiguous blueprint for US foreign police in the Middle East, Russia’s near abroad and East Asia. The contents of the Wolfowitz Doctrine were first published by the New York Times in 1992 after they were leaked to the media. Shortly thereafter, many of the specific threats made in the document were re-written using broader language. In this sense, when comparing the official version with the leaked version, it reads in the manner of the proverbial ‘what I said versus what I meant’ adage.
By contrast, A Clean Break was written in 1996 as a kind of gift to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who apparently was not impressed with the document at the time. In spite of this, the US has implemented many of the recommendations in the document in spite of who was/is in power in Tel Aviv.
While many of the recommendations in both documents have indeed been implemented, their overall success rate has been staggeringly bad.
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The beast shows itself. Again. And again. And Again.
Not only is the blood of that Al Jazeera press reporter on the hands of the Zionist state, not only is the blood of Rachel Corrie murderer on the hands of the Zionist state, not only are all the past murders on the hands of the Zionist state, but the blood of these victims is on the hands of Israel’s enablers, its forsaken allies. For because of them, that Israel was able and continues to murder the Rachel Corries, the Abu Aklehs, the countless Palestinians, the children imprisoned. What a beast walks among us.
That the beast proclaims its actions are justified by God, as part of God’s divine plan shows how deranged is the beast. For surely these actions are the actions of a beast.
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….Not to mention the slaughter of American Sailors on board the USS Liberty, in international Waters in the Mediterranean Sea, by the Israeli Air Force in 1967, which still, has never been adequately investigated by the U.S. Government, in the 55 years since Israel committed the obscene crime.
Israel can do anything it wants to the USA, and the USA is “impotent”….No “Balls” at all !
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Did you know that when the THINGS were attacking the Liberty, a Russian destroyer came up and the THINGS took off, back to
israel? The uS submarine also left which was waiting to destroy the Liberty if the THINGS failed. The Russian ship watched
over the Liberty for seventeen hours and offered their help. Hardly any of the history of the Liberty report this.
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Wow, I didn’t know that. But, it is not surprising, Positive reporting of Russia, by Presstitutes in the West, is ‘Verbotin'(forbiden),
We CANNOT believe ANYTHING we read in the Western MSM, even important matters such as Pandemics and vaccinations…..
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See, I told you them so-called phony jews were mongolian savages per Gen. Patton and he would know.
This is just what savages do. The UN is a pos.
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The UN is pathetic. They allow Israel “Observer Status” at the UN, so that any votes against Israel’s actions, by the UN General Assembly, means nothing to Israel. They should withdraw the “Observer Status” and cast Israel into the “wilderness”.
But, of course, the USA will always back Israel, because Israel has the American Government in their pockets…..The USA is a whimpering little kitten, in the face of Israel….totally gutless.
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The actual anti-semites are ashkenazi… Super shocked. I don’t understand what the problem was with the ashkenazi’s
interrupting the funeral. The’ Wandering jew” no wonder. They are hated wherever they go, even here in the real USA –
not the communist one of today where a diabolical outfit like the Frankfurt School was allowed.
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America’s Politicians have SOLD the USA OUT. It is their job to run America for AMERICANS, but, they have s=old their souls to The Devil, and despite their incredible salaries, they have done NOTHING for the USA, but grovel at the feet of Israel.
It’s pathetic how “The most powerful Nation of Earth” has laid down and let Israel F–k it……
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http://www.gemworld.com/USAvsUS.htm The left column was who were are suppose to be and the right side is what we have
become. If we had fought to remain a Republic, Israel would not be the our problem and probably would not have existed. We were
totally manipulated and now look at us.
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Cry me a river UN…you belong with the rest of the dung heap. Worthless…YOU HAVE NEVER DONE A THING CONCERNING THE BASTARD HUNS CALLED ISRAEL, NOR WHAT HAS BEEN DONE IN SYRIA, IRAQ, AFGHANISTAN, YEMEN…YOU JUST FEIGN CONCERN WHILE PROSTRATE AT THE DOOR OF MURDERERS. YOU HAVE RIVERS OF BLOOD ON YOUR WORTHLESS HANDS.
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