Thursday Mar 13, 2008
Posted by Alan Dershowitz
Article 51 of the United Nations Charter guarantees its members "the inherent right to...individual self defense" against "an armed attack." In January 2006, Hamas was elected to govern the Palestinian Authority. After Israel ended its occupation of Gaza and removed all of its settlers, Hamas threw the Palestinian Authority out of the Gaza and assumed de facto as well as de jure control over the entire Gaza Strip. Its leaders then instructed its military wing to direct rockets at civilian targets in southern Israel. At first these rockets were Kassams with a relatively short range. Now they include Katyushas, which can reach Israel's large cities, including Ashkelon, with its population of 120,000 civilians. Hamas has officially declared that its policy is to develop or smuggle even longer range missiles capable of reaching Israel's largest city Tel Aviv and its lifeblood, Ben Gurion Airport. It has promised to keep aiming its missiles at civilian targets until the Jewish state is finally destroyed.
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Kevin Farrell, Decatur, Georgia USA: Mr Dershowitz has his facts wrong. Why is this for such an erudite person? The killing of Salah Shehadeh involved more than a "few civilians" To be specific Israel dropped a 2,000 pound bomb on
an apartment complex in oine of the most densely populated areas in the world. Besides Shehadeh
17 others were killed. This included 15 civilians 11 of whom were children + 150 wounded. What faulty intelligenceis there that Israel did not know civilians were around? Mr. Dershowitz is not entitled to his own facts.
Dav Lev: I am an Independed and voted for John McCain. I saw through the do-nothing President and his
outrageous promises to CHANGE everything, from the grassroots. That approach got him
the teenage vote and the votes of fanciful minorities who believe in Takkun Olam..heal the world and treat their maladies..before your own. He didn't disappoint me..nothing he had proposed has come to fruition..AND he has flip flopped..Iraq, Afghanistan, labor, world trade, gays in the military, etc. He has the majorities in Congress...so what? It's about deeds, not teleprompter words. In 2010, vote
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Dav Lev: Charlie Rose keeps on repeating the same old, tired line, that we have been engaged in the
worst foreign debacle ever. He does this in the way he interviews his guests. He is watched
by millions on PBS. He also appears occasionally on CBS. From time to time, he suggests that
those involved in making legitimate actions which might be construed as torture, or those people
who promoted the Iraqi invasion..be tried, be held accountable. I say, hows about
prosecuting the people per this article..in intelligence. I mean their lies could have
resulted in a nuclear exchange.
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