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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cares1996: well know the chinese military warned and we all didn`t pay enough attention,things happen to put it nicely,that said i`ve seen recent progress in relation to media war,everyday looks like some progress,the more that gets revealed the more masses will see,the mess took time to make its gonna take time to clean-up,the corruption involved shouldn`t be dismissed either,this is a huge problem,if it was a mistake that`s one thing,if was paid for service than thats treason,treat it accordingly
Robert Kenner, New York, USA: Tom Friedman has written some great op-eds, but this is not one of them. His succumbing to political correctness is sad, but not surprising. If he had written that Israel has made several serious attempt to reach a peace agreement and it is the Palestinians who have rejected these efforts, then he would indeed have lost quite a bit of his readership. Friedman is not a Charles Krauthammer, and he wouldn't survive a New York minute in the NYT if he was.
norwegian: #4: You have to understand that for the folks here at JPost, there is no greater sin than being a "arab-lover".. It doesnt matter what he says, it doesnt matter what his arguments are. He is a lefty arab lover, and so should be ignored, just like the presiudent of the United States. Its called a echo-chamber, I do believe.
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