In this New York Times op-ed piece, Gershon Baskin argues that the killing of Jabari was a short sighted action on the part of Israel. While I oppose political assassinations, in this case I don’t buy Baskin’s argument. Tweet
War Crimes
Many years ago I wrote this piece which even garnered a mention in Wikipedia! Essentially I argued that despite claims to the contrary, there is a moral, or rather immoral equivalence to the actions of the Israeli army during the second intifada and that of Hamas. The claims of “the right to self-defense” on the [...]
There is quite a bit of brouhaha regarding Judge Goldstone recent op-ed in the Washington Post. As I see it, broader issues are involved. Tweet
Sixth in a series. Sadly this probably won’t be the last. Tweet
Continue reading about Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions – Gaza Flotilla Edition
As I’ve noted many times my blood starts to boil when so-called progressives start talking about how we need to return to being “a nation of laws.” As we see in the video, Israel has scrupulously followed the law in perpetrating this crime against innocents: Tweet
Continue reading about The Law is the Cudgel of the Powerful
The attacks against Judge Goldstone’s report on the Gaza war fall into three categories: personal attacks against him, attacks on the accuracy and veracity of the findings and attacks against the UN body that commissioned the report. In this recent interview with Bill Moyers, Judge Goldstone responds to all these attacks and others as well. [...]
As I noted in my twitter postings, Judge Goldstone’s report on the Gaza invasion condemns both Israel and Hamas for war crimes. As reported in the NY Times: The report called Israel’s military assault on Gaza “a deliberately disproportionate attack designed to punish, humiliate and terrorize a civilian population, radically diminish its local economic capacity [...]
Continue reading about Goldstone Report Reaction Roundup (Updated)
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AronT on July 16th, 2009
Gideon Levy on Yoav Gallant: From the “neighbor procedure” of using people as human shields, which is a gross violation of a High Court ruling, a public scandal in itself; to the spirit of words uttered by a commander who is quoted by a number of the soldiers as saying that was preferable to harm [...]
Continue reading about Gideon Levy: Man responsible for Israel’s cruelest wars only attracts praise
Philip Gourevitch puts in writing his ideas re: Abu Ghraib and Obama’s release of the torture memos (I had mentioned some of these in an earlier post): The natural first reaction on seeing the photographs of American soldiers torturing Iraqi prisoners in Saddam Hussein’s old dungeons was to ask: Why are we doing such things [...]
In his op-ed piece calling for investigations of the Bush & Co torture crimes and prosecutions related to same, Dr. Paul Krugman (a man I greatly admire) says: Sorry, but what we really should do for the sake of the country is have investigations both of torture and of the march to war. These investigations [...]