The UN Human Rights Council held an emergency debate on the Goldstone Report, which accused Israel of human rights violations during Operation Cast Lead in Gaza. Several countries, including Kuwait, Pakistan, and Iran condemned Israel's actions. However, the speech by Colonel Richard Kemp, organized by UN Watch, provided a contrasting perspective. In his speech, Colonel Kemp stated that based on his military experience, the Israeli Defense Forces did more to protect civilian lives during combat than any other army in history, facing an enemy in Hamas that used civilians as human shields. He asserted that while mistakes happen in war, they did not constitute war crimes, and that civilian casualties were ultimately a consequence of Hamas' tactics. Colonel Kemp concluded by saying that
Article in The Times of Israel by Andy Blumenthal: It’s Passover, and we celebrate our deliverance from Egyptian slavery, yet this is a slavery that was foretold by Hashem, and as you could say, like with many bad things that happen in this world (e.g. Coronavirus), we knew it was coming!
Article in The Times of Israel by Andy Blumenthal: It’s Passover, and we celebrate our deliverance from Egyptian slavery, yet this is a slavery that was foretold by Hashem, and as you could say, like with many bad things that happen in this world (e.g. Coronavirus), we knew it was coming!
Narrating war in 140 characters: “Protective Edge” as covered by Western main...ArabCitizenMedia
A mapping of the coverage by Western mainstream media outlets & by alternative citizen reporters on the ground of the Israeli war on Gaza (Operation "Protective Edge", July 2014), focusing primarily on the coverage of the Shejaiya shelling on Sunday July 20, 2014.
Today, after 5 years of struggle, more than half of Syria's population is displaced. The Syrian refugee catastrophe is not the result of a natural disaster, but rather the outcome of systematic policies aimed at suppressing a popular uprising, the inaction of world powers and inability of the international community to respond to the largest humanitarian catastrophe of our generation.
Why & how is it that international laws & international bodies & international public figures paid to maintain peaceful co-existence keep silent while even endorsing repeated NATO bombings that have killed thousands of innocent men, women & children & destroyed public & private property in a show of supremacy & arrogance over the nations they have targeted? NATO war crimes extend from Yugoslavia, to Iraq, to Afghanistan & now Libya. Why are international laws being manipulated to pressurize nations politically less powerful yet bountiful in natural resources or placed in influential economic routes? This simply explains why nations are invaded in the present context & how NATO has become above the law.
Narrating war in 140 characters: “Protective Edge” as covered by Western main...ArabCitizenMedia
A mapping of the coverage by Western mainstream media outlets & by alternative citizen reporters on the ground of the Israeli war on Gaza (Operation "Protective Edge", July 2014), focusing primarily on the coverage of the Shejaiya shelling on Sunday July 20, 2014.
Today, after 5 years of struggle, more than half of Syria's population is displaced. The Syrian refugee catastrophe is not the result of a natural disaster, but rather the outcome of systematic policies aimed at suppressing a popular uprising, the inaction of world powers and inability of the international community to respond to the largest humanitarian catastrophe of our generation.
Why & how is it that international laws & international bodies & international public figures paid to maintain peaceful co-existence keep silent while even endorsing repeated NATO bombings that have killed thousands of innocent men, women & children & destroyed public & private property in a show of supremacy & arrogance over the nations they have targeted? NATO war crimes extend from Yugoslavia, to Iraq, to Afghanistan & now Libya. Why are international laws being manipulated to pressurize nations politically less powerful yet bountiful in natural resources or placed in influential economic routes? This simply explains why nations are invaded in the present context & how NATO has become above the law.
An overview of how Israel's warfare against Palestinian civilians and cities since 2002 amounts to a strategy of 'urbicide' -- the deliberate killing of the city
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‘वोटर्स विल मस्ट प्रीवेल’ (मतदाताओं को जीतना होगा) अभियान द्वारा जारी हेल्पलाइन नंबर, 4 जून को सुबह 7 बजे से दोपहर 12 बजे तक मतगणना प्रक्रिया में कहीं भी किसी भी तरह के उल्लंघन की रिपोर्ट करने के लिए खुला रहेगा।
In a May 9, 2024 paper, Juri Opitz from the University of Zurich, along with Shira Wein and Nathan Schneider form Georgetown University, discussed the importance of linguistic expertise in natural language processing (NLP) in an era dominated by large language models (LLMs).
The authors explained that while machine translation (MT) previously relied heavily on linguists, the landscape has shifted. “Linguistics is no longer front and center in the way we build NLP systems,” they said. With the emergence of LLMs, which can generate fluent text without the need for specialized modules to handle grammar or semantic coherence, the need for linguistic expertise in NLP is being questioned.
हम आग्रह करते हैं कि जो भी सत्ता में आए, वह संविधान का पालन करे, उसकी रक्षा करे और उसे बनाए रखे।" प्रस्ताव में कुल तीन प्रमुख हस्तक्षेप और उनके तंत्र भी प्रस्तुत किए गए। पहला हस्तक्षेप स्वतंत्र मीडिया को प्रोत्साहित करके, वास्तविकता पर आधारित काउंटर नैरेटिव का निर्माण करके और सत्तारूढ़ सरकार द्वारा नियोजित मनोवैज्ञानिक हेरफेर की रणनीति का मुकाबला करके लोगों द्वारा निर्धारित कथा को बनाए रखना और उस पर कार्यकरना था।
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Women have three distinct types of involvement: direct involvement in terrorist acts; enabling of others to commit such acts; and facilitating the disengagement of others from violent or extremist groups.
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1. UK Commander Challenges Goldstone Report
GENEVA, October 16, 2009 -- Today's emergency UN Human Rights Council debate on
the Goldstone Report predictably saw a line-up of the world's worst abusers condemn
democratic Israel for human rights violations. In a heated lynch mob atmosphere, Kuwait
slammed Israel for “intentional killing, intentional destruction of civilian objects,
intentional scorched-earth policy,” saying Israel “embodied the Agatha Christie novel,
'Escaped with Murder'.” Pakistan said the “horrors of Israeli occupation continue to haunt
the international community’s conscience.” The Arab League said, “We must condemn
Israel and force Israel to accept international legitimacy." Ahmadinejad’s Iran said “the
atrocities committed against Palestinians during the aggressions on Gaza should be taken
seriously” and followed up by the international community “to put an end to absolute
impunity and defiance of the law.”
What the world's assembled representatives did not expect, however, was the speech that
followed (see text below), organized by UN Watch. We invited as our speaker a man who
repeatedly put his life on the line to defend the democratic world from the murderous
Saddam Hussein, Al Qaeda, and the Taleban. The moment he began his first sentence, the
room fell silent. Judge Goldstone, author of the distorted report that prompted today's
one-sided condemnation of Israel but not Hamas, had refused to hear Col. Kemp's
testimony during his "fact-finding" hearings. But UN Watch made sure today that this
hero's voice would be heard -- at the U.N., and around the world
UN Watch Oral Statement
Delivered by Colonel Richard Kemp
UN Human Rights Council
12th Special Session, 16 October 2009
Debate on Goldstone Report
Thank you, Mr. President.
I am the former commander of the British forces in Afghanistan. I served with NATO
and the United Nations; commanded troops in Northern Ireland, Bosnia and Macedonia;
and participated in the Gulf War. I spent considerable time in Iraq since the 2003
invasion, and worked on international terrorism for the UK Government’s Joint
Intelligence Committee.
Mr. President, based on my knowledge and experience, I can say this: During Operation
Cast Lead, the Israeli Defence Forces did more to safeguard the rights of civilians in a
combat zone than any other army in the history of warfare.
Israel did so while facing an enemy that deliberately positioned its military capability
behind the human shield of the civilian population.
2. Hamas, like Hizballah, are expert at driving the media agenda. Both will always have
people ready to give interviews condemning Israeli forces for war crimes. They are adept
at staging and distorting incidents.
The IDF faces a challenge that we British do not have to face to the same extent. It is the
automatic, Pavlovian presumption by many in the international media, and international
human rights groups, that the IDF are in the wrong, that they are abusing human rights.
The truth is that the IDF took extraordinary measures to give Gaza civilians notice of
targeted areas, dropping over 2 million leaflets, and making over 100,000 phone calls.
Many missions that could have taken out Hamas military capability were aborted to
prevent civilian casualties. During the conflict, the IDF allowed huge amounts of
humanitarian aid into Gaza. To deliver aid virtually into your enemy's hands is, to the
military tactician, normally quite unthinkable. But the IDF took on those risks.
Despite all of this, of course innocent civilians were killed. War is chaos and full of
mistakes. There have been mistakes by the British, American and other forces in
Afghanistan and in Iraq, many of which can be put down to human error. But mistakes
are not war crimes.
More than anything, the civilian casualties were a consequence of Hamas’ way of
fighting. Hamas deliberately tried to sacrifice their own civilians.
Mr. President, Israel had no choice apart from defending its people, to stop Hamas from
attacking them with rockets.
And I say this again: the IDF did more to safeguard the rights of civilians in a combat
zone than any other army in the history of warfare.
Thank you, Mr. President.