{UAH} Mr.Mulindwa:Gaza war has opened my eyes on so many fronts especially on ICC!

Edward,

This is not about changing for the sake of it but it is about seeing things differently outside the box. For years, We have been made to believe that Israel is a nation that respects human rights while Hamas, on the other hand, are a terrorist organisation. Today, those who support Israel's all out bombing policy are justifying this by saying that Hamas is to blame because they hide behind civilians, and that makes everything(UN buildings, hospitals, universities, mosques, e.t.c) a target.

As far as I know, if there's a single thing that separates legitimate warfare from simple terrorism, it's the effort to distinguish civilians from soldiers, and combatants from noncombatants. This does not mean that noncombatants don't die in "legitimate" wars, or that states don't accept civilian deaths or casualties in wars, but effort has to be made to save civilians.

 Surely, from the images we have seen in the last three weeks, Israel has been bombing anything that looks "ugly" to them and its within their sight in Gaza. Unfortunately, we have ended up with 80% of the total so far killed as civilians according to UN. That's purely state sponsored terrorism. There are no two ways about it, and if the ICC cannot see it that way, we have been wasting a damn long time with them.

Here is what professor Thane Rosenbaum, a senior fellow and director of the Forum on Law, Culture & Society at New York University Law School, wrote in the Wall Street Journal recently, while supporting Israel's policy, as my respectable mate,Simon Okurut, has done on UAH:

"On some basic level, you forfeit your right to be called civilians when you freely elect members of a terrorist organization as statesmen, invite them to dinner with blood on their hands and allow them to set up shop in your living room as their base of operations. At that point you begin to look a lot more like conscripted soldiers than innocent civilians. And you have wittingly made yourself targets."

PM Netanyahu has justified his actions by alluding to something similar as the professor, but they are still not branded "terrorists". I sometimes wonder about this so called professors and why are given such tittles. I thought Mr.Bukenya Gilbert would be the last person to cause embarrassment to that tittle with his poor strategies and indecisiveness on 2016 elections,but hey, the list is still growing. Now, compare Thane's statement with what Bin Laden said after the NewYork towers were hit on September,11th:

"The American people are the ones who choose their government by way of their own free will; a choice which stems from their agreement to its policies. Thus the American people have chosen, consented to, and affirmed their support for the Israeli oppression of the Palestinians, the occupation and usurpation of their land, and its continuous killing, torture, punishment and expulsion of the Palestinians. The American people have the ability and choice to refuse the policies of their Government and even to change it if they want."

If anybody wrote justifying the Sep 11th attacks in the context of Prof Rosenbaun, I'm sure their careers were finished long time ago, but nothing is gonna happen to the professor , again simply because of the double standards people usually put on display when it comes to Israel. It just goes on to show that the characters in the 'Animal farm' are almost everywhere, and I guess this is where you are supposed to tell me:" welcome to the real world, Abbey".

Yes, I'm now in the real world, and ICC is not for me anymore, mate! I may as well use my time campaigning to start Kangulumira TV and sister newspaper than wasting time on organisations supporting selective justice.

Ebintu bibononeseko nyo banafe abo!

Abbey

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On 3 Aug 2014, at 05:50, "Herrn Edward Mulindwa" <mulindwa@look.ca> wrote:

Ugandans

 

Changing Ugandans one at a time, today it has been Abbey Ssemuwemba, tomorrow it is going to be Edward Pojim.  The waiting on these very slow gentlemen continues.

 

EM

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Subject: {UAH} Gaza war has opened my eyes on so many fronts especially on ICC!

 

Friends,

My views on international organizations especially the ICC have been changed by what's happening in Gaza. I used to argue for the ICC but not anymore........it's all bullshit. Africa should have it's own African Criminal Court(ACC)!

Africa is led by imbeciles but they are our own imbeciles, and we will eventually find a way to deal with our imbeciles from now onwards.My previous arguments that the ICC acts as a deterrence to African dictators committing crimes against their own people still carries weight, but it should not be at the expense of selective justice. 

Few days ago, I was watching Fox News, and I saw how Kenneth Roth, the executive director of Human Rights Watch, was putting his case to the world that Israel is committing war crimes in Gaza. The moderator,Huckabee, and the audience just didn't wanna believe him , simply because they have been made to believe that Israel is always the victim in Gaza. What is happening in Gaza has been a reality check to a lot of people on so many fronts. I don't think we have seen or read anything this bad probably since 1945, but where is the so called ICC?

How did I fail to see through the ICC? I think I should listen more to what people say or write on our forums rather than fronting my own opinions. It seems they are people out there who have already walked through the same roads some of us are planning to use, and its good to give them an ear every now and then. Anyway as Brian Tracy said: "No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals."

I'm ,therefore,never gonna rubbish anybody's opinion on something again, even when it looks faulty. There is a lot to learn out there, and it seems most of us are in infant stages! I really feel for the Palestines. Nobody deserves to be bombed while in a cage.

Byebyo ebyange!

 

Abbey

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