02-02-2010, 03:42 PM
Magda Hassan Wrote:In an official response provided to the United Nations over the weekend in response to last September's Goldstone Commission report, the government said that a brigadier general and another officer with the rank of colonel endangered human life during by firing white phosphorous munitions in the direction of a compound run by UNRWA, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency.
The government finding acknowledges, at least in part, allegations by international organizations.
But the IDF on Monday flatly denied that Division Commander Brig. Gen. Eyal Eisenberg and Givati Brigade Commander Col. Ilan Malka been subject to disciplinary action by GOC Southern Command Maj. Gen. Yoav Gallant. It did not deny that the munitions were in fact used during the war, however.
In other words the Israeli government lied t the UN in their report for purposes of political expediency.
And since I imagine that the IDF was given a tacit green light by the government/Prime Minister to use Willy Pete as they did, the IDF isn't going to take the blame sitting down...
What this shows us is that there really is no remorse in Israel for using these banned weapons and that, consequently, they'll use them again as and when they damn well please. And then lie again to the UN likewise.
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
Carl Jung - Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.14