Nicaragua Suspends Diplomatic Ties With Israel

[Scurrilous]

Source: AFP

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"Nicaragua suspended diplomatic ties with Israel on Tuesday in protest at Israel's botched raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla that killed nine people, President Daniel Ortega's office said.

"Nicaragua suspends from today its diplomatic relations with the government of Israel," communications chief Rosario Murillo said in a statement read on Radio Ya.

Managua "underscored the illegal nature of the attack on a humanitarian mission in clear violation of international and humanitarian law," added Murillo, who doubles as poetess and first lady.

Nicaragua reiterated its support for the Palestinian people and urged an end to the blockade on the Gaza Strip."




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[IndianaGreen]

1. K&R

Way to go!

[PDJane]

2. I hope others follow suit.

[madrchsod]

3. the boys in the basement thought they could get rid of him...

but he`s back..

more countries need to do what he did.

[cali]

19. not so good for women

Ortega not only supported but championed Nicaragua's draconian abortion laws. He's a pig.

Nicaragua Anti-Abortion Law Amounts to a Death Sentence


A pregnant 27-year old Nicaraguan woman, "Amelia," with metastatic cancer has been denied medical treatment on the grounds that it might harm her baby.

Nicaragua passed a draconian anti-abortion law in 2008 which criminalizes abortion even in the case of rape or incest or when the mother's life is in danger. Nicaraguan doctors are prohibited from treating pregnant women with cancer, HIV/AIDS, malaria and cardiac diseases, and threatened with prison sentences for providing health services or information related to abortion.

Amelia has effectively been handed a death sentence by her government. Each day she is denied treatment, she edges closer to death; in a tragic irony, she will most likely die before the baby is even born. Her 10-year old daughter will be left without a mother, since the Nicaraguan government values the life of an unborn fetus over that of a mother.

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http://womensrights.change.org/petitions/view/nicaragua_anti-abortion_law_amounts_to_a_death_sentence

Ortega was once pro-choice- at least sort of. He changed his position to supporting NO EXCEPTIONS on the abortion ban for political reasons.

Fuck him to hell and back. He's responsible for the deaths of many women.

[John Q. Citizen]

4. Glad to see someone cares about the rule of law.

[David__77]

5. Are Bolivia, Venezuela, and Ecuador next? Not necessarily.

ALBA is sending a message

[meowomon]

6. I am suspending my diplomatic ties with Israel as well!

Boo Israel. Free the Palestinians!

[quakerboy]

7. Let me know

when any of the big boys follow suite. I'm gonna guess that this dosn't really leave Israel with even as much as a bitter taste in its mouth.

[Chulanowa]

10. Ah yes, the old "But they don't count"

Well played, old boy, well played.

[quakerboy]

11. Will their action deter Israel from further agression?

I do not see them having the clout to make this effectual. Perhaps they are just the first and many more will follow, in which case, I am happy to be wrong. But at this point in the situation, I am not seeing anything likely make a real difference for the good, particularly as long as the US Government unquestioningly has Israel's Back. Perhaps I am just too jaded to think about international politics.

[cstanleytech]

12. They are merely being honest with their opinion, no harm in that.

I to kinda doubt it will matter but thats based upon Israels own disdain in the past for what most other nations opinions are about them or their actions.

[sabrina 1]

13. It adds to the almost universal disgust with Israel's

rightwing, radical government. And more are likely to follow. It's like the story of the snowflake. Each one alone carries little weight, but as they pile up they can break a branch.

The world has been tragically silent on the brutality of the Israelis towards the Palestinian people. Sometimes it takes a single event to break the silence. This may not be the one, but it certainly has focused attention on the plight of the Palestinian people.

Yesterday Egypt opened its borders, today Nicaragua breaks diplomatic ties. Tomorrow, some other country may join them. It isn't any single country, it is the number of countries who have finally lost patience with Israel. This is just one more. Like snowflakes they are piling up ...

[Tempest]

22. In case you haven't noticed

Turkey is one of the big boys.

In fact, Turkey is the only country in the region who actively supports Israel. Without that support, Israel is in for a rough time.

[quakerboy]

23. But this article is about Nicaragua

Turkey is talking angry, but as long as the military can hold on to enough power, and as long as the US is covering for Israel, I do not see Turkey following suite with even this level of symbolic disengagement.

[Tempest]

24. So Turkey's military escorting the next humanitarian ship is symbolic?

What will be symbolic is when the Israeli Navy backs off when Turkey's destroyers are along side the humanitarian ships.

[quakerboy]

27. Is that confirmed?

Last I heard it was speculation that they "might" send escorts. And it is, at this point, wild speculation to assume that Israel would "back off".

And in the mean time, that still has nothing to do with the OP or my response to the OP.

[New Dawn]

8. K&R

[Left Coast2020]

9. AND BOYCOTT THEM LIKE WE ARE IN ARIZONA!!

Bravo!!!

[knixphan]

14. K&R

[paparush]

15. I'm going to Nicaragua in two weeks.

Between recent regional earthquakes, volcanoes, tropical storms, and now a potential retaliation by the Isreali wingnuts, I'm in for an exciting trip.

[Scurrilous]

26. Have fun.

:thumbsup:

[Dutch]

16. Ortega's blanket ban on abortion sums up HIS humanitarian credentials.

Although I concede Subcomandante Coathanger is a natural ally for Hamas and Erdogan.

[olegramps]

17. Do you have any problem with the Israeli attack on humanitarians?

Do you consider it a legitimate use of military force? You are probably very better informed than I am on the state of Israel. But isn't it a fact that the Jews and Muslims lived peacefully together for years until the Jewish refuges flooded into the area after WWII and sought to establish a Jewish state in what was a British protectorate using terrorist tactics.

[cali]

20. I don't support the Israeli attack. There is no excuse for it

but no, all was not peaceful in Palestine prior to WWII.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1929_Hebron_massacre

In any case, Nicaragua's horrific abortion ban has killed scores of women over the past 5 years.

I don't support depriving Palestinians of their rights in Gaza or the WB and I don't support depriving women of theirs in Nicaragua- or anywhere else.

Do you?

[olegramps]

21. What about the horrible measures used by the British:

The massacre you referred to was prompted by rumors that in reality were the result of Arabs becoming increasingly homeless as a consequence of the massive influx of Jews to the area in which they bought up the farming land from Arabs. Their greed led them to unwittingly cooperating with their own destruction.

The British policy of "collective guilt" that they used to completely destroy entire villages when only one person was responsible for assaulting a British soldier, especially an officer, was responsible for far more serious massacres.

"As well as destroying the village the RUR and men from the Royal Engineers collected around fifty men from al-Bassa and blew some of them up with explosion under a bus. Harry Arrigonie, a policeman who was present said that about twenty men were put onto a bus; those who tried to escape were shot and then the driver of the bus was forced to drive over a powerful land mine buried by the soldiers which completely destroyed the bus, scattering the mutilated bodies of the prisoners everywhere. The other villagers were then forced to bury the bodies in a pit."<1>

"Despite these measures Lieutenant-General Haining, the General Officer Commanding, reported secretly to the Cabinet on 1 December 1938 that "practically every village in the country harbors and supports the rebels and will assist in concealing their identity from the Government Forces."<75>"

This is cited from the same articles you quoted. You can also note that the British solution recommended to stabilize Palestine during the Arab revolt against British rule in the mid 1930s was to forcefully transfer 225,000 Arabs to the Trans-Jordan area. Much, if not all, of the hell hole that has been created, can be directly attributed to the British mismanagement of their mandate.

[Corrupted Edge]

18. A small voice

can speak loudly, hopefully other countries that Israel is actually scared of will listen.

[PfcHammer]

25. Horale!