Thursday May 07, 2009
Posted by Edwin Bennatan
Counterpoint to:
A step toward ending Israel's impunity
The appointment of Richard Goldstone to head a United Nations fact-finding mission to the Gaza Strip represents an important first step toward ending Israel's impunity from international law.
George Bisharat
The Baltimore Sun
April 16, 2009
In 1999, two Chinese military officers, Qiao Liang and Wang Xiangsui, wrote a book entitled Unrestricted Warfare. In it, the two authors propose tactics that, in the event of a high-tech war, would compensate developing countries, in particular China, for their military inferiority to the United States.
The authors view the 1991 Gulf War, with all its complex political alliances, battle technology, and global media coverage, as a pivotal point in warfare that has fostered new principles and battlefields unfamiliar to today's professional military people. Among these new battlefields the authors list media warfare (manipulating what people see and hear) and international law warfare (using the law as a weapon - later dubbed 'lawfare').
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.
|
 |
About this blog
Point / Counterpoint
A response to selected commentary about Israel in the world press, from an up-close observer of the Middle East for more than fifty years.
|
Combined feed for all JPost.com blogs
Recent Comments
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.
Joseph London: I was born the same month and year as the State of Israel, so I've lived through her history.Israel seems to win every war to destroy her and Israel also seems to be expected to make every concession to terrorists like Arafat. Throughout history the victor has tended to call the tune, aside from Israel. I would suggest that Egypt take responsibility for Gaza and Jordan take resposibility for the West Bank. Let Arab states rule Arabs. Israel and Jordan can share Jerusalem.
|
|
Comments (8)