1. Juliano Mer-Khamis was murdered today in Jenin
Monday, April 4, 2011 at 3:20PM Gilad Atzmon P
alestinian genius film maker, actor and political activist Juliano Mer-Khamis, 53, was shot dead on Monday in Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank.
According to Jenin police chief Mohammed Tayyim, Mer-Khamis was shot five times by Palestinian militants, but that police were still investigating the circumstances of his murder. I would wait to learn more about the tragic incident; as we know, the IDF trains special units that are operating disguised as Palestinians militants.
Mer-Khamis was well-known as an actor for his film and theater roles, both in Israel and abroad, and had made a name for himself as a director and a political activist, as well.
Mer-Khamis was affiliated with the local theater in Jenin, established by his mother in the 1980s. In 2006, Mer-Khamis opened the Freedom Theater in Jenin, along with Zakariya Zubeidi, the former military leader of the Al-Aqsa Martyr Brigades in that West Bank city.
Mer-Khamis' mother, Arna Mer, was an Israeli Jewish activist for Palestinian rights. His father, Saliba Khamis, was a Christian Palestinian. Mer-Khamis was born and raised in Nazareth.
Watch Mer-Khamis' monumental Arna's Children:
2. Gilad Atzmon: Goldstone's U-Turn
Monday, April 4, 2011 
If I had known then what I know now, the Goldstone Report would have been a different document,' writes Richard Goldstone in an attempt to retract his own UN report.
And yet I wonder: how different would it be? How different could it be? Goldstone is impressed with Israel dedicating some "significant resources to investigate over 400 allegations of operational misconduct in Gaza', but it somehow leaves me bewildered.
Let us assume that at the time Goldstone and his team looked into the cold blooded murder of more than 1400 Palestinians, they would also be aware of an Israeli enquiry. What difference would it make??
'For example,' says Goldstone, 'the most serious attack the Goldstone Report focused on was the killing of some 29 members of the al-Simouni family in their home. The shelling of the home was apparently (according to the Israeli investigation) the consequence of an Israeli commander's erroneous interpretation of a drone image, and an Israeli officer is under investigation for having ordered the attack.'
For some peculiar reason, Goldstone allows Israel to reduce its institutional responsibility for a colossal war crime, into a chain of local errors, made by a few low rank officers who may, or may not, face criminal charges.
One should remind Goldstone that the decision to use artillery and carpet bombardment in Gaza wasn't taken by 'some' military commanders on the ground: these decisions were taken by a democratically elected Israeli cabinet. Furthermore, these decisions were supported at the time by 94% of the Israeli Jewish population.?? The decision to rain barrages of white phosphorous over the most populated place on this planet was a strategic decision, and it was taken by Israeli military high command. The fact that Israel (may) sacrifice the military career of one Moishe'le or two Yank'le doesn't change the validity of Goldstone original report at all; it only proves that Israel fails to take responsibility for its actions.
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