"Does any decent democratic government,"
Is the slaughter of 550 plus children not an atrocity?
It is to most of us.
Has not both Britain and the U.S. including Obama, spoken out against what happened in Gaza last year?
Israeli war crimes are wll documented - we don't need politicians to tell us what they are - we watched the results of them nightly last year on television.
If Israel has nothing to hide, why is it refusing to face an e
nquiry of its behaviour and why is it trying to have the International Criminal Court disbanded, leaving the world without an International body to try War Criminals?
Jim Carroll

Irish Timess, this morning
ISRAEL ACCUSED OF'VIOLATING LAW'
HARRY Mcgee
A Norwegian trauma specialist and anaesthesiologist who has treated casualties in Gaza has accused Israel of "repetitious violations of international law".
Dr Mads Gilbert has written two books about his experiences, including the recently published. Night in Gaza. He is giv¬ing a presentation in the O'Reilly Theatre in Dublin tonight.
Speaking to The Irish Times, he said he had noticed that with each of the four Israeli assaults on Gaza - in 2006, 2009, 2012 and last year - the intensity and level of brutality had increased.
ASSAULT
He said five times more mortars were dropped on Gaza last year than in the assault in 2009. "It was extreme. The Israeli army used more armaments than that used by the US army to conquer Iraq," he said.
He said 142 families lost three or more members and 551 children died last year. The entire population was made subject to collective punishment and because it was a cap¬tive enclave, the population had no place to flee.
APARTHEID
"My big question as a doctor is how can a government and army get away with these repetitious violations of international law. Israeli immunity is some¬thing that should be tackled. This is not a ragtag collection of terrorists. The generals of its army should be taken to the International Criminal Court. "
Dr Gilbert claimed the ruling system in Israel was an apart¬heid one, with its West Bank wall segregating Palestinians. He said the totality of attacks on Israel was weak and meagre compared to its response. While saying he supported nei¬ther Hamas nor Fatah and con¬demned any civilian attacks, he contended Palestinians had the right to defend themselves.