It looks obvious

For god sake, why should they have done that? And why the extra brutality?

Egyptian soldiers killed four Sudanese refugees, beating two to death in front of horrified Israeli soldiers, an Israeli TV station reported Thursday, screening what it said was army surveillance video and interviews with the soldiers.

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Israeli soldiers were sent to the scene to try to help the refugees, and at one point they got into a tug-or-war with the Egyptians, each side holding on to the Sudanese.

"We pulled one way they pulled another, they pointed their guns at us," said one of the soldiers. He said the Israelis let go for fear that the Egyptians would fire at them.

Then the Israeli soldiers said they watched helplessly as the Egyptians passed the two refugees from one to the other, beating them. "We saw them gang up on them and beat them on the ground until they stopped moving," said one soldier.

"They killed two men with their own hands and sticks and rocks," he said. "We heard them crying and screeching in pain until they died."

I simply don’t get this - the cruelty that serve nothing but itself.

In our next visit in Israel, when we will take our few relaxation days in Eilat we are going to stay in one of  the Fattal chain hotels. We will do that not because the hotel we use to go to in the past isn’t good, it is an excellent hotel, or that we heard any recommendation on the hospitality in the Fattal hotels, and I’m sure it is excellent as well. The reason is completely different.

Today I was reading on this Israeli blog that the owner of the Fattal hotels chain decided to "adopt" Darfurian refugees in Israel. Apparently the chain will provide jobs and  dwelling to two groups of refugees from Darfur that had no where to stay.

So if you are planning a visit in Israel, Or in Germany consider the Fattal hotels chain - they deserve it.

Few years ago a good friend of mine that was than an Infantry battalion commander was injured after he was ambushed by Palestinians gunmen. When I came to visit him at the hospital I was surprise to find out that in the room near him was one of the Palestinians gunman who was injured as well. It was somewhat surrealistic but also a reason for to be proud that my Israel treats its injured enemies with compassion.

The reason I’m telling this old story is that I found out that a group of British physicians calling to:

A young Israeli physician published this clip to confute this claim and to raise awareness to the false allegations. You can make your own judgment, should Israeli physician expelled for being inhuman? I guess that in a world where Zimbabwe can chair the UN commission for sustainable development and the UN commission for human rights ignores the genocide in Darfur, its make sense…

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Senator Biden’s suggestion to send troop to stop the genocide in Darfur, unilaterally if needed, is very good. Obviously the suggestion timing, and the fact that the clip was posted by the Senator’s campaign team, is focus more on the Senator’s presidential campaign than on the situation in Darfur. However this is to be expected, and we should make it clear to more politician that part of our voting consideration we will place high priority on their action to stop the genocide in Darfur.

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Today, the Holocaust Memorial Day , I find myself lack the ability to express my sadness that more than 60 years after the world discovered the horrors of the Nazi’s concentration camps and the genocide we are still facing similar pictures.

What more should happened to make us care?

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Back on Thursday I wrote about the shameful role of the UN in protecting human rights, or actually avoiding from doing so. And than I saw this caricature that expressing basically the same criticism:

While I’m used to here most criticism about the UN focus on Israel from Israelis or Jewish organizations it is encouraging to know that this view shared also by other people from the Middle-East. Sadly I can add that the UN will not find the conscience to stop the killing in Darfur.

I have written numerous times about the genocide in Darfur, and I have joined my voice to organizations that called the UN to send peacekeeping forces. This was a mistake!

The UN, as organization, was a mistake from the day it was established. pretending to created a democratic institute that will prevent wars, or at least minimize the wars damages, while actually it only provides the illusion of democratic process. In fact the UN become an haven for many tyrannic leaders to block and effective actions to improve and protect human rights around the world.

While the members of the UN human rights mockery council includes Cuba and Zimbabwe allowed to attack and prevents efforts to protect human rights other speeches, such as the criticising speech of UN Watch, are being kept out of record. In addition the UN Commission on the status of women finds that the only violator of woman rights is Israel.

The UN is an evil organization and I have no hope that any justice will come out of it. And therefore I will not sign petitions requesting UN involvement in Darfur, or anywhere else, nor will I participate in any demonstration calling for UN members to pass a resolution in the UN that effectively help to stop the genocide in Darfur. If any organization will ask for my voice to push the western world to take action, as an ad-hoc coalition or as part of NATO, I will gladly support it - but I refuse to help the UN keep its image of rightful and decent organization.

Here is what will the UN allow, and what not:

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