Monday Feb 09, 2009
Posted by Edwin Bennatan
Counterpoint to:
Israeli attacks on Gaza are war crimes
"Why is the Israeli cause so exceptional that war crimes, committed every day, are routinely forgiven, and even applauded, in the West? Can the reason be racist? Or religious"
Bob Ellis
The Canberra Times (Australia)
January 15, 2009
Bob Ellis, writing in Australia's Canberra Times, believes that Israel is guilty of war crimes and its leaders should be tried by an international tribunal. Ellis predicts that "Tzipi Livni will stand trial soon on a charge at least of collusive multiple manslaughter and will end her days in a fairly comfortable air-conditioned cell in The Hague." Personally, I very much doubt that that will happen, but Ellis is certainly entitled to unleash his imagination.
Thursday Jan 08, 2009
Posted by Edwin Bennatan
Counterpoint to:
Looking past Gaza
"The short-sighted refusal to talk to the Hamas Islamists encouraged Israel to continue and intensify its blockade, provoked Hamas's subsequent increasingly violent response, victimised the population of Gaza, and has made it much harder to stop the fighting once it started."
Simon Tisdall
The Guardian (London)
December 7, 2008
Anyone who has been following the international press over the past two weeks is undoubtedly familiar with the downpour of news reports, opinion pieces, op-eds, editorials, and other commentaries on the war in Gaza that have been virtually dominating much of the world media. While this is certainly not unexpected in the Arab and Islamic press, it is a surprising phenomenon in the European media where it far surpassed the 2006 Lebanon war.
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Chris USA: Israel is in the grip of a python that is slowly squeezing the life out of it. How long can it pretend time is on its side before it admits its lethargy has turned into paralysis?
Sharona Jerusalem Israel: JoeG from the US YES, THE WHOLE WORLD CAN BE WRONG. Take a look at the Western World as Hitler was rising to power in the 1930's. All wrong. RE: Arab citizens-when they do 2 or 3 years of national service like their Jewish peers then they can compete equally for jobs they are qualified for. Until then, IDF vets and national service vets should get preference. This should apply to Haredi Jewish shirkers as well. Let the Arab residents pay their municipal taxes and fix their infrastructure. What Israel actually does makes no difference. The anti-Semites will never pay any attention to facts!
McQueen, NY: I think it's asking too much for people to hire those Arabs who don't serve in the army or even in national service over an equally qualified Jew. How will that help anything? It will only increase the sense of entitlement. On the other hand if one encounters an Arab who has served his country, then, sure, treat him as well as you humanly can.
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