Evo Morales, says NO to Israeli mass murder
Bolivian President Evo Morales has followed the lead of Venezuela and cut diplomatic relations with the Zionist State.
This comes as the Gaza death toll rises to over 1,000 and condemnation of Israel over war crimes against Gaza reaches an unprecedented crescendo. Aljazeera reports:
Morales said on Wednesday that he would seek to get top Israeli officials, including Ehud Olmert, the Israeli prime minister, charged with “genocide” in the International Criminal Court.
The Bolivian president also dismissed the United Nations and its “Insecurity Council” for its “lukewarm” response to the crisis and said the general assembly should hold an emergency session to condemn the invasion.”Considering these grave attacks against … humanity, Bolivia will stop having diplomatic relations with Israel,” Morales told diplomats in the Bolivian capital, La Paz.
He also said that Shimon Peres, the Israeli president, should be stripped of his Nobel Peace Prize for failing to stop the invasion.
Meanwhile, Haaretz claims that Venezuela, which expelled the Israeli ambassador last week, is backing away from a full diplomatic break.
Hugo Chavez: unlike Bush, Israel treats him with respect
One thing is noticeable. Israeli politicians are not bragging about calling up Hugo Chavez and telling him what to do.
They treat leaders like Chavez and Morales with respect. As they should.
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Here’s a short extract from Demands grow for Gaza war crimes investigation in Tuesday’s Guardian newspaper:
The Israeli military are accused of:
- Using powerful shells in civilian areas which the army knew would cause large numbers of innocent casualties;
- Using banned weapons such as phosphorus bombs;
- Holding Palestinian families as human shields;
- Attacking medical facilities, including the killing of 12 ambulance men in marked vehicles;
- Killing large numbers of police who had no military role.
Israeli military actions prompted an unusual public rebuke from the International Red Cross after the army moved a Palestinian family into a building and shelled it, killing 30. The surviving children clung to the bodies of their dead mothers for four days while the army blocked rescuers from reaching the wounded.
