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Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Goldstone's favorite court condemns another 'collaborator' to death

Every time I read a story like this one, I think of Richard Goldstone telling CNN how Hamas has a competent court system and can therefore investigate allegations of war crimes. That court system has once again done what it does best: It has condemned an alleged 'collaborator' (with Israel, of course) to death.
A Hamas official in Gaza says the militant group has sentenced a local Palestinian to death for collaborating with Israel.

The official said the man was sentenced Wednesday to death by firing squad at a military court in Gaza. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not allowed to speak with reporters.

Palestinians who collaborate with Israeli intelligence are widely loathed within Palestinian society.

The Palestinian Center for Human Rights' says Hamas has issued 36 death sentences since it seized Gaza from the rival Fatah party in 2007. About 15 executions have actually been carried out.

The Palestinian rights group says it is "gravely concerned" over the continued death sentences imposed by both Hamas and the Fatah-dominated Palestinian Authority in the West Bank.
But Hamas and Fatah both practice due process, don't they?

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At 12:42 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Goldstone doesn't mind kangaroo courts condemning people to death... He was a long time judge of apartheid courts in South Africa doing just that without any due process...and did what he did at the UN kangaroo court...

 

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