From: INTERNET:ccarroll1@mac.com, INTERNET:ccarroll1@mac.com
To: NLG-Interact, INTERNET:nlg-interact@igc.topica.com
Date: 5/3/02 8:11 AM
RE: [NLG] Dick Armey Calls for a Crime Agaisnt Humanity
Dick Armey and Chris Matthews on Hardball, MSNBC, 5/1/02
ARMEY: I'm content to have Israel grab the entire West Bank.
MATTHEWS: Well, where do you put the Palestinian state, in Norway? Once the Israelis take back the West Bank permanently and annex it, there's no place else for the Palestinians to have a state.
ARMEY: No, no, that's not--that's not at all true. There are many Arab nations that have many hundreds of thousands of acres of land and--and soil and property and opportunity to create a Palestinian state.
MATTHEWS: So you would transport--you would transport the Palestinians from Palestine to somewhere else and call it their state?
ARMEY: I would be perfectly content to have a homeland, just as--most of...
MATTHEWS: But not in Palestine?
ARMEY: Most of the people who now populate Israel were transported from all over the world to that land and they made it their home. The Palestinians can do the same, and we're per--perfectly content to work with the Palestinians in doing that...
MATTHEWS: Right, no. No, that's not the question and that's not your answer. The question here is: What is the future of the Palestinians who are fighting Israel right now? You say there future is somewhere besides Palestine. That runs in the way of US policy going back to 1948. It runs--it runs completely against the president's policy and every policy I've heard a president take, which is that Israel has to give up its settlements on the West Bank and give it back to the Arabs in exchange for peace. You say the deal should be the Palestinians leave?
ARMEY: That's right...I happened to believe that the Palestinians should leave.
MATTHEWS: Have you ever told George Bush, the president from your home state of Texas, that you think the Palestinians should get up and go and leave Palestine and that's the solution?
ARMEY: I'm probably telling him that right now.
MATTHEWS: Well, just to repeat, you believe that the Palestinians who are now living on the West Bank should get out of there?
ARMEY: Yes.
Article 6 (b) of the 1945 Nuremberg Charter defines Nuremberg War Crimes in relevant part as follows:
"War Crimes: namely, violations of the laws or customs of war. Such violations shall include, but not be limited to...deportation to slave labor or for any other purpose of civilian population of or in occupied territory..."
Likewise, Article 6(c) of the Nuremberg Charter defines Nuremberg Crimes Against Humanity in relevant part as follows:
"Crimes against Humanity: namely....deportation, and other inhumane acts committed against any civilian population...."
And we always said it could never happen here...
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[posted 5/8/02]
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